Listen guys, when you come from divorced parents and have to see multiple people on holidays, something has to give and someone has to do lunch while someone else does dinner
It’s not a Holliday for me since I am canadian but this thread plus football makes this my favorite Holliday.
Always eat at my parents' house around 1:00 on Thanksgiving. I'm currently eating some leftovers I brought home. Perfect imo.
I’m sure there’s good reasons, but you poor bastards who drive days on end around Thanksgiving are fucking crazy. That’s not a holiday, that’s work.
Yesterday: Work Today: Prep Tomorrow: Cook/host Saturday: 8hr round trip for 3hr visit (grandad turning 90, I'm not bitter about the drive, but not thrilled at the timing) Sunday: the sweet release of death, hopefully Monday: more work
So, my SIL is a bit of a drama queen and thinks she should be as close to my sisters and mother as they are... but they aren’t and she isn’t and is quite insufferable for the most part. She’s an only child and she has a huge issue with FOMO and makes sure if she isn’t in agreeance with something involving the family that it needs to be heard because she feels she is a certain amount of special that she isn’t. Well one of my sisters is getting married. Was informed today that the SIL is not invited to the bachelorette party in the Caribbean or wherever because she isn’t really one of my sisters friends like that and to be honest, she doesn’t really like her all that much for obvious reasons... cant wait to watch this shit show unfold at Christmas...
No one said get seconds. Just get a scoop of what interests you and eat vegetables first. Then house the pecan pie to offset the vegetables.
Like the time at which a Thanksgiving meal is eaten, dinnertime is also different to different people
I’ve now eaten two massive meals and two desserts and I have diarrhea on the horizon. Ran a 5K this morning so I’m not an “obese gluten”
My brother was talking about some drug cartel thing he saw on tv and at one point was like "yeah Pablo... what's his last name again?"
Well you nailed it. Not to be a buzzkill but my MIL was involved in a hit and run while she was walking right before lunch this morning. She was walking well off the road and a car drifted and clipped her. Sent her flying in the air. Luckily she's only got a broken ankle and some bruises after a trip to he ER. It happened in a remote stretch of road and there were no witnesses. But it looks like she will be fine thankfully.
I wasn't there but this was in my grandmothers yard for the kids. 12 kids. I think it's a bit overkill size wise but absolutely awesome.
We ate at 4 today. I ate way too much, as always, then fell into a tryptophan coma on the couch for an hour. Woke up and had a piece of apple pie. Standard Thanksgiving
Well checking in to this thread.... Let me preface this story by saying that my FIL is a raging alcoholic, drinks 6 plus beers everyday and gets pretty angry when he starts in on the hard liquor. He’s also pretty rough around the edges, drops n bombs occasionally, and has no problem talking about vulgar shit like seeing all the daughter in laws titties and ass around the family. Tonight at the thanksgiving he was hammering the beers like usual and my BIL has gotten him hooked on the mini single shot fireball drinks. He’s being his usual asshole self and getting into with my BIL (his son) and I do my usual trying to defuse the situation. His 21 year old grandson tells him he’s got weed and my FIL demands that they smoke it in the basement with a house full of kids upstairs. I let him know that he’s not doing that and looking like a shitty grandpa to his grandkids. He goes on a rant how this is his house and he’ll do what he wants, I try to take the lighter and he gets in my face like we’re going to fight. He’s 70 years old and in pretty bad health, so I’m not going to fight the old man. Decided to go upstairs and tell the family we’re out, we leave ASAP. Pretty fucked up night, not sure we’ll go back anytime soon. Still doesn’t top the Thanksgiving a few years ago when he got all fucked up and called his step daughter a “n****r loving bitch” because she brought her dogs and they got on the couch. He also went on a rant that night because his wife stuck up for her daughter and he called her a bitch countless times. I think his wife moved out for awhile after that one. Dudes gonna end up dying alone because he treats everyone like shit.
Who cares what time you eat the Thanksgiving meal. It is clearly variable from house to house, not a regional, ethnic or religious thing and likely something your family just decided based on convenience some generations ago. Also, there is a non-zero number of posters in here whose family thinks they're the asshole.
Totally fucked up night that I tried to NOT make him look like a shit head by smoking weed with 20 people upstairs and the fucker wanted to fight me. BIL left when I did because “nobody is going to get in my brothers face like that”....and that’s his fucking dad. We've pretty much decided we’re having thanksgiving at one of our houses next year and that asshole isn’t invited.
My mom and brother live down the street in a house I own. We stayed home this Thanksgiving instead of traveling to my in laws because my wife get obligated to make sure they had family nearby to share the holiday with. Dinner was at 3. No sign of them. I called over and they say they not feeing well and won’t make it. No biggie, it is more pleasant without them. After dinner I walk down with some leftovers and they are drunk, the house smells of weed, and they are watching a movie (Using my Netflix account). I need to kick them out but they’d both be homeless if I did. Fucking sucks.
Some of these family situations all suck and I feel for you. But goddamn I wish my family was as open to weed as some of yours are.
I’m totally cool with weed, smoked it for 20 years, daily. A few of the nephews sneak away at family events and nobody says a word. Trying to smoke it in the house with teenagers upstairs, with their significant others, is out of bounds IMO.
I 1000% agree. I just wish I had the option to sneak away. I totally agree with your mindset in this situation, FIL seems like a POS. Keep that shit away from the kids and family.
Frank that was a bar fighter 50 years ago, usually try to take up for his dumb ass because I know he’s lived a hard life. He pretty much burnt the last bridge he had tonight with the most mellow member of the family.
the first holiday after moving to oregon literally everyone coming to our house, including parents and aunts/uncles, smoked weed was enjoyable, but they also grew up in rural MO where weed grew wild
I don’t like the smoking part but weed is awesome. Just legalized here and I am enjoying the different oils a lot Cbd and thc
The thing that really got my goat was that I would have to drop off my 16 year olds boyfriend to his parents smelling like weed....not cool.
Frankly it is probably a bad thing for the kids, imagine your first time getting high and looking directly at your folks