Nikki Haley is sooo bummed she has to work on July 4 just because North Korea launched an ICBM

TFW your friends are posting party photos on Instagram and you're stuck in the office.
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Keith Wagstaff
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Nikki Haley is sooo bummed she has to work on July 4 just because North Korea launched an ICBM
She'd rather be watching fireworks. Credit: Europa Newswire/REX/Shutterstock

Don't you hate when it's the Fourth of July and instead of grilling burgers with friends, you're forced to deal with a hostile foreign state that just tested an intercontinental ballistic missile?

Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina and current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, sure does!

Ugh, meetings amirite? #ThanksNorthKorea.

I mean, the least Kim Jong Un could do was wait another day to announce his country had taken a step toward being able to launch a nuclear warhead capable of hitting the continental United States.

Some people have BBQs to get to!

TFW your friends are posting party photos on Instagram and you're stuck in the office, dealing with a despot who could start a devastating war. Life is so unfair.

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Keith Wagstaff

Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.

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