# Share your Thanksgiving stories with me

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-thanksgiving-stories-with-me/215630>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 27, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-thanksgiving-stories-with-me/215630 "2003-11-27T22:26:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ILikeMadonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8baadc/32.png) [@ILikeMadonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILikeMadonna)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-thanksgiving-stories-with-me/215630/1 "2003-11-27T22:26:06Z")

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Share what went wrong, what went right, people you haven’t seen that are talking to you now, how good your food tasted, etc.

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**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-thanksgiving-stories-with-me/215630/2 "2003-11-27T23:46:03Z")

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Ethereal[yes, ethereal] Brussels sprouts; best escarole soup I ever made; NOBODY was late[even the usually dependably late folks]; didn’t forget the cranberry sauce in the fridge; burned rolls[dammit];unusually quick dinner; waving goodbye is _sometimes_ the best part; Uncle Mike AND his only joke[but a funny one the way he tells it]; the turkey soup is simmering as I type[ONE of the foods of the gods]; pollyanna names were chosen[I got the easiest one to buy for]; and to all a good, well-deserved AND early night.

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**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-thanksgiving-stories-with-me/215630/3 "2003-11-28T00:46:43Z")

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My devious plan - sign up to work today, so that it would be impossible for me to cook, then be taken out to dinner.

Work went great. Did a couple of PICC line IV antibiotics and some wound care, helped out some very confused people who weren’t taking their medication correctly, got a goody bag with macadamia nut shortbread cookies and a bottle of Starbuck’s mocha from a patient. Turbo nurse finished her shift and ripped home in record time. Took a nap.

Now, dinner is gonna be fine - we go to a soul food place that has a buffet, so we are eating everything from traditional Thanksgiving fare to jambalaya with rice, gumbo, okra, tamales,  
ribs, and of course pecan (or pumpkin, if you must) pie.

Life is good.