# Too early for a "Thanksgiving could have been better" thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-early-for-a-thanksgiving-could-have-been-better-thread/474738 "2008-11-27T20:48:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-early-for-a-thanksgiving-could-have-been-better-thread/474738/41 "2008-11-28T11:50:43Z")
She’s seventeen. She hasn’t seen my post (she stayed at a friend’s house last night), but I did tell her how great she was and how proud I was of her. Usually she gets pretty resentful about the amount of work involved in hosting the holidays (“Why are we doing all this? I don’t even like most of these people!”), especially since I tend to get a little nuts beforehand with the cleaning (“Everything must SPARKLE!!!”) and the menu planning and the prep. (Why? I don’t know. I don’t like most of these people either!) But there was no grumbling at all yesterday. I have no idea what brought on this sudden burst of maturity, but it was awfully nice, and I really can’t even describe the feeling of watching her bustling around the kitchen, and seeing a woman. I’m a little verklempt. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-early-for-a-thanksgiving-could-have-been-better-thread/474738/42 "2008-11-28T14:35:48Z")
Mine was pretty good; my sister-in-law is a good cook though she seems to own no potholders (what is up with that?) and my older niece is a delight, but the 7-year-old niece shrieked in my ear all day and I had to take an Imitrex at the dinner table. \*Raisins \*in the stuffing? Fucking Communists. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-early-for-a-thanksgiving-could-have-been-better-thread/474738/43 "2008-11-28T14:38:10Z")
The main room of my uncle’s house has his giant-screen TV, on which my relatives all sat and watched The Godfather marathon on AMC the entire time. Which meant that I couldn’t let my small children eat in that room, and I couldn’t talk to my aunts/uncles/cousins or socialize, because they were watching a movie. This includes during the meal time, by the way. And when I suggested that maybe we could turn the movie off just while the kids were eating, people thought I was being a bitch. This may be the last year that we go to my uncle’s house for T’giving. I dislike family gatherings where the TV is left on the entire time anyway, and for it to be a violent mobster movie (that I know they have all seen like 384903 times anyway!) was a little over the top for me. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-early-for-a-thanksgiving-could-have-been-better-thread/474738/44 "2008-11-28T15:31:38Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > \*Raisins \*in the stuffing? Fucking Communists. Amen, Brother. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-early-for-a-thanksgiving-could-have-been-better-thread/474738/45 "2008-11-28T15:45:57Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **Chefguy** , hubby’s youngest son started to tell an Obama joke. I shut him up. (He’s always been scared of me, but he’s the only person in the world who is.) Then he said Bush was a “brilliant” president. All I had to do was give him a look and he backpedaled on that too. What can I say? The kid quit school in the 8th grade. It’s almost too easy. What is truly disgusting is that this guy is educated, and used to be a school teacher. He says things around his grandchildren that he should be punched in the crotch for. “Hey, you know waht NBA stands for, doncha? N\*\*\*\*er Basketball Association.” Then he gives this smarmy, sneering chortle that just makes your skin crawl. I’ll give thanks when the bastard dies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-early-for-a-thanksgiving-could-have-been-better-thread/474738.md?page=2)