You could go to one of the free dinners or you could go out to a restaurant and enjoy Thanksgiving dinner by yourself.

About the title - my son and I don’t have to choose to be away, we are never invited to Thanksgiving dinner and if we knew we were actually welcome and wanted we could plan ahead of time and make it there - it’s only in the next state from us so we could make it but this will be the 5th year in a row (even certain…