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The things we hate about Thanksgiving Day

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#1 ·
Let's all be honest about it. From the time we are kids there's always some minor things like being stuck at the wobbly card table turned "the kids " table and sitting across from our cousin who likes to gross everyone out by playing the see food game as they masticate their food opened mouthed before swallowing and laughing as all the others at the table yell "Mom!".

As we get older the see food fool gets replaced by new things we hate about the day like the relatives who plop on the sofa and undo their belt and unbutton their pants or such and the things sometimes stay the same or change every few years.

So let's have some fun and share some of the things about the holiday we could just as soon live without and how we solve them.

For us the things we hate is GF doesn't like the cooking and clean up and I really don't like driving in the crowds on the roads, loads of screaming kids or turkey because it's my normal staple meat when cooking here at home for myself.

I solved both of our problems a few years back. Her disdain for hard labor holiday cooking I solved by ordering the turkey and sides for her, daughter and the two grandkids from a local café and having it delivered to her house.

For my disdain of the crowds on the roads , I go to her house across the interstate the day before by way of the back roads adding an extra 10 miles to the trip to her house and order delivery for myself from Pizza Hut (and yes I order extra because every year the turkey eaters add some of my pizza and calzones to go with their standard turkey plates.

So what are some of the things you don't like about the holiday and how do you solve it?
 
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#37 ·
hunter63,

Your MRE remark reminded me of a guy I worked with who when giving his post Thanksgiving account of his family get together, said something wasn't quite right with the meal and he and his family ended up adding an extra couple hours to their ride home as they took a scenic tour of gas station restrooms and two times the roadside woods as they started clearing the food poisoning out of their systems for the next day and a half.

He ended the account by saying he told his wife that the next time that part of the family came up for meal hosting rotation, he was going to bow out and stay home and eat an MRE by himself if he had to so he would avoid the green gill gush and pre colonoscopy grade colon blows.

We really laughed when he said his wife and three kids all agreed to pass that resolution unanimously.


Geo in mi,

You covered most all the bases there. LOL


Well my plan of avoiding driving today got torpedoed when I got called early this morning to take my car trailer to meet a friend 30 miles south of here to haul his sister and BILs dead on the road car to his house while he hauled the family in his car.

That's what I get for having a tilt load car trailer with heavy duty electric winch.

Oh well, at least I got to grab a nap here at home before taking my back road route to her house again. Maybe my dogs didn't give her too much trouble while I was gone for 7 hours.
 
#42 ·
Discovered that the kitchen clock battery was running down, so I had to crank the oven up to 400. But all went well, the thermometer read 160 degrees at "going out the door time". Left a house full of duck and Brussels sprout smoke behind...got home to lots of stinky curtains, bedding, clothes in the closets. Completely full of turkey, duck, potatoes, squash and memories of the six granddaughters all together again, really, no complaints...........hope to do it again next year.

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