Oh, and one more thing, at the end of the meal, when everyone told my cousin how good it was, she didn’t even give me any credit. 

I actually don’t talk to one of the aunts, an uncle (and his 4th wife) and only rarely speak to gma.  My mum and step dad like to do smaller dinners with my sisters and I anyways so I usually dodge the family fiascos and come in the day after for a much more pleasant experience.

First, my father’s family, all good Polish working class Catholics, always felt he married down by marrying a girl (my mother) from an Irish Catholic working class family. Thus my mother, brother, and I were always viewed as “not quite family”, whose presence was to be tolerated only because they loved my dad. Who…

Isn’t the elephant in the room that these girls are admitting to boning these losers simply because they’re presumably physically fit and hot? It’s like complaining that you got indigestion from a gas station hot dog, even though you should’ve known as much. Then again, I wouldn’t expect a Miami school to NOT be…

A family friend of ours went over on Xmas eve to his late brother’s family’s house as he and his wife did every year. About midnight, he was having the standard toast he did every year, and after he drank down whatever it was, he says, “I’m kind of having a little trouble breathing!”. The whole family went to the ER.…

Twenty or so years ago, I and my four brothers are at my grandmother’s house in a wealthy suburb of Boston. Our unmedicated, bipolar mother is there, and she’s agitated and starting to drink (she went through periods of thinking God had cured her of her bipolarity and would then abandon her meds, and why not a week…

Thanksgiving at my in-laws:

About 6 or 7 years ago, while working retail and living with my grandparents, I was asked by my aunts to take care of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. I was okay with this, let all adult relatives know what they needed to bring, and let them know that I was going to cook something different since I dispise turkey;…

Mine is a meal that wasn’t. In the early 20-teens I reconnected with a friend I hadn’t hung out with in a bit in mid-October and had a good time. He asked what I was doing for Thanksgiving and I told him I hadn’t yet made plans so he invited me over to his friend’s house for a Friendsgiving. That sounded fun so I…

Talk about burying the lede:

One year, my family( and 16 year old me) go to my mom’s cousin’s house because she hasn’t hosted Thanksgiving in a while and she had offered to take a turn.We were told to “ come hungry”.

Oh, this is easy. The time my mother came to visit and brought Norovirus with her. First she went down, started vomiting all over our house, herself, everywhere. Then came the diarrhea, all over our house, herself, everywhere. All as we were serving the big meal.

You are ten times better than I will ever be as I would have noped out of there ages ago AND gave everyone my two-cents about their horrible children. Like, huge props for putting up with everyone.

I’ve got a great one. About 10 years ago, when I was still in my mid 20s and broke as most mid-20 year old are, I received an invitation from a female cousin to come over for Thanksgiving.

It was the early 1990s and I was about to host my very first Thanksgiving. I did all the shopping and even bought a tablecloth and fancy napkins. Cut to Thanksgiving morning as I put my properly thawed bird into roasting pan and attempt to put it in the oven. Nope! The bird is too big. I have a mini panic and then…

I’m loving Jezebel’s sports coverage.

My advice is to ignore these boys and just let them play with their balls.

I used to talk to a senior player who somehow gets away with cheating on his long distance girlfriend using his two brain cells and small penis.”

I went to an all boys high school. So they didn’t allow yearbook quotes because it was always just a bunch of dick jokes

I didn’t give a quote, but relooked at my ex’s who gave me years of gaslighting trauma and internalized patriarchal ideals, and it was a double quote with his twin.