My brother in law once smugly explained to me that single cell organisms evolving into modern man was as statistically likely as a hurricane going through a junk yard and randomly assembling a fighter jet. Clearly the only logical explanation was that we were created by God in his image.

I will never understand family who purposely try to shame each other.

I guess this isn’t a horror story, because no blood was shed and no turkeys were burnt. However, it was still horrible in a sense.

i blocked it all out, but it might be tonight

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 than he already was) to buy drugs. So then the cops came and he was forcibly strapped…

Last year my brother’s fiance’s daughter’s boyfriend declared Natives a “pestilence”.

It pains me to tell this story because it inevitbaly leads to my sister being the golden child for the decade after this story.

There was that one thanksgiving I was being screamed at by both of my sisters for accepting evolution as scientific fact. They seemed to take it as a personal affront since they think the earth is only a few thousand years old and scientists are just Satan’s minions trying to trick us. This all came as quite a shock…

While I was growing up my parents had quite a bit of money. An estate on the Main Line, house in the Hampton’s, blah..blah..blah. After many bad investments and years of reckless spending, the inheritance was gone, as was most art work and jewelry. My parents put the house they had lived in for 20 years on the market…

I live in a building with my landlord. Below our apartments is a small, privately owned photography shop.

I have never forgiven my aunt for sneaking and eating my bread pudding that one time. She never told me her sister made it for us and eat both pieces. I only found out when I was asked how I liked the bread pudding.

Ok, when I was like 11 or 12, I was at my cousins house with a big group of family, 20-30 people. After dinner, all the kids wanted to play hide and go seek. I went and hid in the closet of the guest bathroom which was adjacent to the toilet- big mistake. After a few minutes, one by one, family members would come in…

Oh I'm so sorry about your father that is awful!

I had PRK surgery right at thanksgiving two years ago. It’s kind of like LASIK, but they scrap the top layer of your eye off. It looks like ice being scrapped off your windshield, but on your eye.

I’m at my future sister in law’s with my fiance and his parents. I actually love his family and we often get along great. So far everything has been fine up until my future mother in law quietly said to me “can you do me a favor and button your cardigan? Your shirt is so see-through and I can see everything, and it’s…

Here’s mine:

It doesn’t HAVE to be gross. The way we make it, there’s no mayo. We use sour cream and homemade whipped cream with powdered sugar. Fuji apples, Anjou pears, walnuts, craisins, and celery. You could leave out the celery if you wanted though. It’s frigging ADDICTIVE.

Mom’s idea of salad: apples, walnuts, celery, mayo.

are you from a family of raccoons

I have actually have only told one person this, but ok here we go. I so wish I was as no bullshit when I was 17 as I am now..In highschool I was very shy and quiet. I mean I still am, but I wouldn’t let this stuff happen to me now.