Who will have a family fiasco this Thanksgiving?

[Shell Beau]

You know how when some families get together, all hell eventually breaks loose! Let's hear all about those events! (my family isn't one of those, but we do have 1 person who loves to be the most difficult person in the world to like :mad:)

[billyskank]

1. I won't

:hi:

[Shell Beau]

3. Good to hear!!

Eat plenty of mince pie though!! :hi:

[eyesroll]

2. This year will be quiet.

Me, BF, parents, sister.

Aside from BF meeting my sister for the first time (and that's hardly high-pressure like meeting parents), there's nothing else of note.

Last year, my grandparents came in and drove everyone nuts.

[noonwitch]

4. I'm planning to drink a lot of Beajoulais Nouveau

That way, I'll miss most of my mom's snide comments or those of the asshole she is dating.
Luckily, my brother won't be there. A couple of thanksgivings ago, we had an argument. We wouldn't have that same argument now-I was giving him a hard time for being mean to mom. She's pissed me off so much over the past year, I think I'd stand by and let him berate her at this point.

[WeRQ4U]

5. Pretty low key at our house.

Although my cousin came back from his internship in Rocky Mountain National Forest looking like a hippy. He has dreds, those big stretchy ear lobe plugs, a beard and a weed habit. I love the guy to death, but my grandmother (very conservative) won't be too thrilled with him. Lol.

[Lavender Brown]

6. I hope not... if there is, I'll go sit at the "kids table."

They're more fun anyway.

[LeftyMom]

7. Probably me

We've got way too many troublesome situations not to:

My baby sister is moving out of Casa de Daddy (and in with a guy who is not her boyfriend,) Mom just got married and LeftyDad and I split up. Surely there's a good fiasco in that, if not we can always fall back on argung about food, sports or, my sister's favorite, stuff our parents did wrong two decades ago.

[Rising Phoenix]

8. my little brother will probably start some shit...

he'll start talking all liberal and my fundie aunts and uncles will freak out...Happy friggin Holidays

[RubyDuby in GA]

9. 1st holiday at new in-laws

They're fundies and we are most certainly not. Could get interesting, but most likely we'll all try our best to play nice.

[miss_american_pie]

10. We're hosting

My fundy in-laws, which include two neurotic attention seeking great-grandmas, one hypochondriac passive aggressive MIL, right-wing loving uncle, and the ultimate Bridezilla SIL, all so that we don't have to drag our kids all over creation on the holiday.

Good times.

[Texasgal]

11. Lucky you SHELL!!!

The TG family is always full of fun-filled Drama!

That's why I have my own deal at my house with my old college buddies, they fly in from all over the US and we sit around eat turkey, do facials and get drunk!! Oh, and watch FOOTBALL!

[Shell Beau]

12. Now that sounds fun!!!

:)

[In_The_Wind]

13. It will be peaceful here.

I haven't had a family fiasco Thanksgiving in sooo long I can't remember it but I think it hasn't happened since I moved out of my father's house 40 years ago.

[Wapsie B]

14. It should be nice and uneventful.

Just the way I like it. :) I've been through several that weren't and it's no fun. Mostly Christmastime fiascos though when they did happen.

[ernstbass]

15. I have one of those families

and I have learned to stay away over holidays. I'll just have my brother and his daughter (the balck sheep liberals)

[rbnyc]

16. We celebrated Thanksgiving last weekend!

Most of the family will be traveling during Thanksgiving, so we had Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday. It was kind of weird. And people are looking at me funny bringing leftovers into the office.

;-)

Glad it's over with. Family is crazy.

[RedCloud]

17. We will carving some jive ass turkeys this Turkey Day

The fighting will commence when I say it is Holy Blasphemy for stores to start their Christmas sales before Halloween and Turkey day have ven arrived!

Eventually they will surrender in time for that crazy Post Turky sales day.

[Saphire]

18. not here..my hubby, myself and two kids...that's all I'm feeding.

[seemunkee]

19. The potential is high

My BIL is bringing his new live-in girlfriend. He is 44, she is 24. There will be a major grilling by my MIL and my other BIL's wife.

[Rosie1223]

20. I's so jealous

of you folks having quiet or fun Thanksgiving days.

Here's how mine will go: (or at least how it's gone for the last 20+ years)

Her Highness, my mother-in-law summons her son, his children, (oh, and Rosie can come, too) to her house for dinner (noon). Who can turn down an invitation like that?

When we arrive, my brothers-in-law will be already drunk. They drink Jack'n'Coke in ice-tea size glasses. MIL will gush at how wonderful it is to have all her children and grandchildren under 1 roof. Rosie reaches for an ice-tea glass.

MIL will offer my children candy as an appetizer.

We will dine on dry turkey and massive amounts of starchy vegetables cooked within an inch of their lives. There is usually a side dish containing some sort of wild beast. MIL will praise BIL for his superior hunting skills. One year, he bagged the deer with his pickup. Betcha you're hungry already.

After dinner the BILs will retire to the TV room, turn on football and pass out. Sometimes the snoring drowns out the play-by-play.

After MIL martyrs herself doing all the dishes (no, she won't allow you to help, you're a guest), she insists on everyone who's still awake to play a friendly game of bridge. Now, I have nothing against card games, but MIL is a militant bridge-player. She takes no prisoners. There's nothing friendly about it.

Then it's time for dessert. The sole contribution I am allowed to make to the feast is pumpkin pie. It is good, but MIL will go on and on about how great of a cook I am (OK, how about I steam the vegetables next year??) The conversation then turns to Christmas. All the family must produce a list of all the gifts they want that year. Holiday Spirit anyone?

Time for Rosie and family to go home. One year MIL didn't speak to me during Christmas because I didn't hug her goodbye. Don't ya feel the love?

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Shell Beau]

21. That actually sounds like a typical Thanksgiving!

But I hope it goes over well!! :)

[Jokerman]

22. For the first time in my life, the answer is NO!

I'm looking forward to my first holiday season without those dysfunctional jerks. I've put up with a lot of crap from my family over the years just to try to keep my parents happy but they're both gone now.


Specifically, a seriously deranged sibling who specializes in making everyone else miserable will have to find someone else to bother this year.

[Callalily]

23. Wow!

Reading some of your tirades, maybe I am lucky not to have a family. Going to spend Thanksgiving with my best friend. We can only get together a few times a year, she lives 600 miles away. We'll play in the kitchen and most likely have a fun game of scrabble. And talk, talk, talk.

[MissMillie]

24. not I

my folks, my son and I.

If my son behaves himself (meaning if he is helpful and respectful), we should be ok.

[Initech]

25. Not THIS Thanksgiving. The week after should be quite interesting!

I have to fly to Detroit the week after to help my Grandma move out of her house and into an assissted living center. This should be fun!

I picture it'll be something like the scene on Arrested Development when GOB, Michael, and Buster are trying to force Lucille into a rehab center.

[SharonRB]

26. Only if we start talking politics

My usually Dem folks voted for * last year and my dad and I get into it sometimes. To add to it, friends of theirs who are strong Repukes will be there. I've already warned my hubby, let's stay away from politics. Now, if someone else starts the conversation, all bets are off.

[PittPoliSci]

27. oh i'm planning on it.

the successful branch of my family always comes out and i get lectures from the following:

Mom
Dad
Aunt 1
Aunt 2
Cousin 1
Cousin 2
Uncle
etc....

All this about how I should give up doing what I want and study pharmacy! I like how they can't seem to fathom, that after 3.5 years, I'm not going to change my major, I'm not capable of being a pharmacist, and I don't want to. All they care about is money, money, money, and I'm sick of having to live up to their bullshit. Everytime there's a family gathering, I get yelled at by about 10 people for hours about how I'm fucking my life up. It makes me glad that I have to work in the evening, almost.