Any Family Squabbles at Thanksgiving Dinner?

OMG! The family used to fight every holiday. My mom didn't get along with her mother in law and the kids would fight. One year the neighbors got mad that the family parked in the lot across the street that had no vehicles in it.

Grandma got mad and put on her shoes and marched over there and got into an argument with the neighbor. The only good thing was the food.
 
This year was fabulous. The best part was when my great grandson got his first taste of
my traditional Pineapple Upside Down cake and he took his little hands and was cramming,
and I mean shoveling it in. That was precious for me to see. He kept saying "MORE".
Nice to see he has his Gran-Daddy's side blood lines :ROFLMAO:
 
The food was good, everyone was pleasant, yet it was one of the strangest Thanksgivings in memory. There were envelopes beside each of our plates with our names on them. Each envelope contained a list of clues to solve a murder mystery - a game which took place during the meal, and consumed the entire time. So, except for a few brief conversations with people before or after the meal, I have no idea how things were going in their real lives. It was not at all a kind of day I enjoyed. The best part was getting back home.
 
I'm glad we don't have a Thanksgiving tradition on this side of the pond. The nearest we get is Christmas dinner, and for that there's either four of us, or six if our daughter and her husband are over from France. Last year it was just the four of us, and will be again this year I think. So apart from stuffing ourselves stupid we'll all just vegetate and swap presents.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
There were envelopes beside each of our plates with our names on them. Each envelope contained a list of clues to solve a murder mystery - a game which took place during the meal, and consumed the entire time. So, except for a few brief conversations with people before or after the meal, I have no idea how things were going in their real lives.
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Almost sounds as if the host/hostess made a premeditated effort to assure there *wouldn't* be any arguing/bickering. Could that be it? Heading trouble off at the pass? That said, it sure does sound strange for a Thanksgiving dinner. :oops:
 
As a kid my family drank, got drunk, and fought, I remember plenty of holidays filled with yelling and pushing and ugly scenes.

At thanksgiving one year when I was young one of my older brothers snatched the wishbone away from me and broke it just to be mean, so I smacked him in the head with a metal salt shaker, than ran like hell accidently breaking the glass in our front screen door on the way out of the house. lol.
 
I shared Thanksgiving with a female friend and her family and I was impressed to see how much love flowed between the members. I didn’t have a Thanksgiving with the members of my family since I was 8. I still have memories of that weekend. Dad took mom and me to visit his grandmother in Florida. It was my very first plane ride.

I really enjoyed being in Florida because of the weather. Back home, everyone was wearing a winter coat, but in Florida, we only put on a light jacket or sweater at night. During the day, I wore shorts and a T-shirt. For it being November, it was a wonderful 4 days and I told dad on the way home that someday I was going to live down there and here I am in Pensacola.
 
CallMeKate said:
Almost sounds as if the host/hostess made a premeditated effort to assure there *wouldn't* be any arguing/bickering.
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I missed last year, but this is my 3rd Thanksgiving to go there, and there was never any arguing the other two times I went. But I suppose anything is possible. When they host the event, their choices and motivations belong to them, and that's fine, but it was my final Thansgiving of theirs to attend.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
The food was good, everyone was pleasant, yet it was one of the strangest Thanksgivings in memory. There were envelopes beside each of our plates with our names on them. Each envelope contained a list of clues to solve a murder mystery - a game which took place during the meal, and consumed the entire time. So, except for a few brief conversations with people before or after the meal, I have no idea how things were going in their real lives. It was not at all a kind of day I enjoyed. The best part was getting back home.
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that little game at dinner sounds like fun.
 
Growing up my two older brothers were volunteer firemen. They worked for my dad so they were free to respond to all calls. There was never a Thanksgiving when the alarm didn't go off. There were kitchen fires, house fires, accidents, you name it. One year two young boys were lost while boating in the bay. They did not survive. It was a very sad day.
 
CallMeKate said:
I've never attended or hosted a Thanksgiving dinner that had any arguing or bickering and yesterday was no exception... it was an awesome day filled with good food and good people. (y)
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Same here. It never happens, no matter what day it is. You just don't argue at the table. You've got a meal in front of you that someone spent hours preparing, you know someone worked for hours to buy all the ingredients, and you're sharing a table with people you love and who love you.

If at no other time of the day, when you sit down to a meal, you forget about annoyances, set disagreements aside, and savor your good fortune.
 
Last Thanksgiving I had a slice of Pumpkin pie for breakfast, then called an Uber and went to the hospoital for six days. it was a G I bleed, thanks to my blood thinner. So glad I no longer take blood thinners. This year was much better.
 

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