I was newly pregnant with my daughter. My ex, who generally couldn’t handle stress of any kind, was in complete panic mode over the whole thing. We went to our friend’s house for Thanksgiving, as we had done many times in the past. Our friend has a powder room off the dining area. My ex immediately stress-eats too…

Yeah, my sister’s family were traveling from their cottage and had taken their cats with them to cottage. They came for Thanksgiving dinner with the cats as it was on their way home from the cottage. Their plan was to go home with the cats the day after Thanksgiving. That poor cat; she was such a trooper through it…

We went to NYC for the parade on actual Thanksgiving, intending to have the big dinner on Friday instead. That was a fun year - it was the year the Comedy Central float RickRolled the parade (where we were standing he was still out ON the float and not hiding inside for the stunt) and I, a long-time unironic Rick…

We went to my Uncle’s ski cabin for Thanksgiving one year. It snowed and my mean boy cousins made fun of me because they could write their names in the snow and I couldn’t. I tried,I peed on my new jeans, I cried, I got in trouble for not acting ladylike. And then......I practiced every day for an entire fucking year…

I’ve told this story in Thanksgiving pissing contests past, but here is my worst one: One time my college-age brother, who is bipolar but refuses to be medicated, felt that Thanksgiving was an appropriate time to hold himself hostage with a gun to his head in the back yard, demanding that our dad give him money (more…

Gay guy. Had to google. Christ what was wrong with her?!

That’s filed under ‘what they don’t know won’t hurt ‘em.’

Tell them that you’re only stopping by briefly because you have to also attend your (sisters/parents/friends/coworkers/imaginary persons) thanksgiving dinner, but you did want to stop in and see how he was doing.

My mom had moved in with my Grandma after we went to college, being divorced it made good financial sense and Grandma was getting older.

I was in college. living in a one bdrm apartment with my friend, who had the living room as his bedroom. We hosted T’giving dinner. Among the guests was this guy we sort of liked and his girlfriend who we did not like. We are all EATING picnic style because who had a table? when awful girlfriend comes out of our…

this is actually my cousins’ story.  their mom had gotten a new stove just before thanksgiving & things are going well that morning, the turkey is in & cooking, potatoes & veg on top boiling away.  then a bird flies into the livingroom & all hell breaks loose as everyone tries to catch it or shoo it out.  naturally,…

That Thanksgiving when your whole family is packed into your father’s smallish 12th floor condo apartment and one of your extended family members has brought along their two cats. Chaos ensues when one drunk adult sibling scares one of the cats and it Peter Pan’s it off the condo balcony, landing 7 floors down on an…

A mild edition as far as “horror” stories go, though it felt painful enough in the moment.

“Brown River”

We go to MrOjib’s parents house for dinner. Last year, his stepmom’s sister, husband and adult daughter came.

My mother is a narcissistic nightmare, and also a complete blasphemy to anything to do with food prep. She had a spaghetti sauce that was really nothing more than ketchup. Her personal nemesis was the box brownie mix. We either ate it with a spoon or chiseled it out as kids.

I spent one Thanksgiving week as a teenager making out with the best friend of one of my cousins, who was staying with them because her parents were going through a nasty divorce. This branch of my family is really religious and conservative, and during dinner, my aunt launches into a rant about how important it is…

You left out the FUNNIEST part of the “all night fuck-a-thon” story! WHY!?

I tried to kill myself a few days before Thanksgiving one time. That made things extremely awkward.

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