# Soon be Turkey Day - a winding-down MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [December 21, 2015, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993 "2015-12-21T09:42:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/101 "2015-12-24T04:05:58Z")
I has a serious blurf. We went out for dinner tonight at the local pizza parlor. Airman and the sprog have a silly game they play that involves French fries and ketchup. (Don’t ask.) Anyway, competition for the ketchup bottle (I told you not to ask.) resulted in a large glass of iced tea being dumped in my lap. :smack: After dinner, as I was pulling out of my parking space, I tapped into a car parked behind me. (The parking lot is really narrow and a shitty place to park, but still.) The other driver called the police to get a report, and the cop decided the accident was my fault, and that I needed to file a claim with my insurance company. I also have a ding on my shiny new car. :smack: At least I’ve got half a day off tomorrow, thanks to Gov. Wolf. That’s something to look forward to, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/102 "2015-12-24T07:09:09Z")
I can’t believe I am still up at 2am. Lots of rain here but nothing serious. My friend in Baltimore has a flooded basement and flash flood warnings down her way. I’m happy it’s rain and not snow and ice. I’m tired. Two more days and everything can go back to normal. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/103 "2015-12-24T07:21:22Z")
Much goofing off happened today. I do have to work opening shift tomorrow, then the next time I have to be at work is closing on Saturday. I was a little more productive than planned today. Ran the dishwasher and clipped the cat’s front claws (the back ones never really seem to need attention). I sneak up on her when she’s snoozing, then give her treats after the trimming. She was pretty cooperative this time around. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/104 "2015-12-24T12:13:55Z")
**BLURF** Up and at 'em. Just for a half day. This has been the longest week ever. I just want Christmas over. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/105 "2015-12-24T12:20:29Z")
Today is at least a half-day, so I can go home and spend some quality time with the sprog before he goes to his gramma and grampa’s house for Christmas Eve. Maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/106 "2015-12-24T12:20:55Z")
**Sticky** , if you invite mumpers to a [wedding](http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/Local/groom-arrested-bride-treated-for-alcohol-poisoning-at-rowdy-wedding-reception/33712592), it might not be over until six months later, when appologies are issued to his new bride & the [judge](http://www.readingeagle.com/ap/article/groom-apologizes-for-wedding-reception-brawl-at-sentencing). :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/107 "2015-12-24T12:27:33Z")
Happy Thorsday! It’s fairly warm outside, and not so wet. I am up way too early considering I went to bed around 2. Don’t know what I’m doing today, I didn’t call my mother yesterday about coming today instead. I’ll call her today and see if I can get the times down. I saw another damn mouse this morning - this is getting old. I have no idea where they are getting in. I should buy stock in D-Con ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/108 "2015-12-24T12:35:56Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to work. Merry freakin’ Christmas. > [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > Down right muggy here. Temps on Christmas Day of 85F expected. 79F right now. Enjoyed my day off, mostly. > > Back at it for half day tomorrow then 3 1/2 days for me. Thank Goodness. Shift and a half for me. > [@Spiderman](#): > > **Sticky** , if you invite mumpers to a [wedding](http://www.wfmz.com/news/news-regional-berks/Local/groom-arrested-bride-treated-for-alcohol-poisoning-at-rowdy-wedding-reception/33712592), it might not be over until six months later, when appologies are issued to his new bride & the [judge](http://www.readingeagle.com/ap/article/groom-apologizes-for-wedding-reception-brawl-at-sentencing). :eek: Well, it is Pennsylvania. 80% of wedding there end up in a drunken brawl. Sorry about the car, Rockin’. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/109 "2015-12-24T12:43:43Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > Well, it is Pennsylvania. 80% of wedding there end up in a drunken brawl. & **Sticky** isn’t that far over the border in [del]OhNo[/del] Ohio. Always confuse those two; they’re only one letter different & the former is what I think of the latter We have _already_ set a record high for today; eclipsing the previous record of 64° 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/110 "2015-12-24T13:18:39Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis a very cloudy, dreary, muggy 73 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 77 for the day. The same forecast goes for Ye Olde Home Towne except there’s a lot of rain between here and there right now. I shall wait until around tennish this mornin’ to journey hopin’ all the rain and storms will have gone through by then. I have managed to pack, so Go Me! **{{{Rockin’}}}** sorry about the ding on the new wheels. I may or may not post tomorrow, so, just in case… **MERRY CHRISTMAS Y’ALL!!!** Happy Thursday Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/111 "2015-12-24T14:14:52Z")
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!! I’ve been up for two hours already, no thanks to a body used to rising early for work.Got a bare amount of shopping to do, walk the dog, do some housecleaning. This evening I serve as a chalist at the 5:30 service at church, then I’ll go to mom’s house to exchange family gifts. I’ll also serve as a chalist at the 10;30 service. Tomorrow I’ll go to church as well. So, I’ll be “deheathenized”(as **swampy** would put it) three times in less than twenty four hours. Family dinner at 5:00PM tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/112 "2015-12-24T14:19:02Z")
Merry Christmas everyone! I’m working half day then off to find something for a friend for Xmas. Family stuff tomorrow then laziness for the rest of the weekend. There are like, 3 people in in my entire department here, it is soooo quiet. I should finish what little work I have, I suppose. 2 1/2 hours to go. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/113 "2015-12-24T14:29:34Z")
Merry Christmas to all appropriate and a Happy Extended Weekend to everyone else! Recovered from yesterday and maybe heading out for some lunch before packing. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/114 "2015-12-24T14:45:15Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **MERRY CHRISTMAS Y’ALL!!!** _ **Bah! Humbug!** _ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/115 "2015-12-24T14:52:31Z")
> [@Sahirrnee](#): > > Happy Thorsday! > > It’s fairly warm outside, and not so wet. > > I am up way too early considering I went to bed around 2. > > Don’t know what I’m doing today, I didn’t call my mother yesterday about coming today instead. I’ll call her today and see if I can get the times down. > > I saw another damn mouse this morning - this is getting old. I have no idea where they are getting in. I should buy stock in D-Con **Sari** , stick to sticky traps or snap traps, you don’t want the little bastards crawling off to mummify in the walls. Best to have a body to dispose, than know, for _weeks_, one is there.☹ ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/116 "2015-12-24T15:41:59Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > No, it gathers strength to make a good run at Oklahoma. wrong mountains ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/117 "2015-12-24T15:44:44Z")
OMG! It’s the 24th and I haven’t decorated or put up the tree or wrapped gi… wait. I’m Jewish. _phew_ I can relax ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/118 "2015-12-24T15:56:46Z")
> [@dogbutler](#): > > _ **Bah! Humbug!** _ THIS ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/119 "2015-12-24T19:13:44Z")
Ugh…! Why am I at work? Oh cute…just saw one of those “only in California” type things on the news. A VW Beetle cabrio with the top down, and two Christmas trees standing up in the back seat. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993/120 "2015-12-24T19:37:55Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > OMG! It’s the 24th and I haven’t decorated or put up the tree or wrapped gi… wait. I’m Jewish. _phew_ I can relax Tell me about it. It’s fun to watch all y’all getting worked up about cleaning and decorating and baking and cooking and shopping and dealing with relatives while I sit back and laugh. I’m upholding tradition by having lunch with the sprog at the local Chinese joint. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soon-be-turkey-day-a-winding-down-mmp/740993.md?page=7)