Vignette | It's Tết: The Liberating Magic of Using Tết as an Excuse for Everything

The Lunar New Year is used to justify all sorts of professional and personal shortcomings. Payments not made on time? Emails not responded to? Construction left unfinished? Irresponsible spending at the mall? Drunk at 10am? “It’s Tết” (or “It’s almost Tết” or even, “Tết just ended.”) The phrase is powerfully close to a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card in the real world.___Written by Paul Christiansen.Read the full article here: https://saigoneer.com/saigon-culture/26749-it-s-tết-the-liberating-magic-of-using-tết-as-an-excuse-for-everything