I have this problem with requesting time off.  I dunno if it is from my time teaching or at previous jobs, but regardless of the fact that I have LOADS of hours I have to use before the end of the year, I still feel guilty whenever I request time off.  Especially with a new job/boss where I'm not sure how he feels about time off on top of the fact that I just took 7 days off over the course of three weeks.

BUT I took my little time off forms to the boss man today, because I have this wedding coming up that I need to attend.  Family wedding.  Of a cousin I like.  Stuff like that.  And my boss gives me this eyebrows-up face as I put the form down in front of him, so I don't know what it means.  He doesn't believe me?  He... is amused by me?  (Probably)  Instead, I opt for... he thinks weddings are hilarious and to be mocked.

So I say, "I know, I know."  Maybe some hand flapping occurs.

More eyebrows (this guy... very expressive eyebrows).  He asks WHAT exactly I know, and I realize that I'm just making noises.  WHAT do I know?  I still have no clue what crap I fed him, but I think it had to do with my parents being a drag at weddings because my sister and I are older than this cousin and not married.  No clue.

But he assures me that "family weddings are FUN."

Clearly not a kindred spirit.

And instead of escaping with what little dignity I have left, instead of that, I tell him about the cousin who got married LAST year.  The one where the wedding party was inebriated even before entering the reception.  The one where the maid of honor broke her collarbone on the dance floor.

I may have come out even on this one, though, because as lame as I started out... I left him laughing.  Maybe at me, but still, I count it as a win.