# What's the craziest thing you heard at your Thanksgiving gathering? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 29, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-heard-at-your-thanksgiving-gathering/675045 "2013-11-29T02:32:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-heard-at-your-thanksgiving-gathering/675045/41 "2013-12-16T18:53:34Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > It always surprises me how people assume others’ political beliefs are exactly like theirs. Comes from hanging out mostly with like-minded people. Then you get, “How could X have won?! Nobody I know voted for him!” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-heard-at-your-thanksgiving-gathering/675045/42 "2013-12-17T16:48:42Z")
We carefully avoided almost all political talk this Thanksgiving because one of the guys has married a Tea Party extremist Christian nutball and none of us want to deal with her shit. So we steered the conversation to safer topics or just kept silent. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-heard-at-your-thanksgiving-gathering/675045/43 "2013-12-17T17:19:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > We carefully avoided almost all political talk this Thanksgiving because one of the guys has married a Tea Party extremist Christian nutball and none of us want to deal with her shit. So we steered the conversation to safer topics or just kept silent. What I wouldn’t give to be at that table and not knowing anyone or caring how much trouble I made. That would be fun. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-heard-at-your-thanksgiving-gathering/675045/44 "2013-12-17T18:00:53Z")
Oh, another crazy Turkey Day convo: every single person in the family was shocked to learn I still ride a motorcycle. Why? My brother and I had dirtbikes as kids; my brother took a spill and injured his knee, so my grandmother took them away and sold them when I was 15. Now, I’ve had a motorcycle since I left home at 22. Two of my uncles (both now deceased) rode and we talked bikes all the time at family gatherings, but no one picked up on the fact I was talking about the present. So one of my cousins mentioned he’s looking for his first bike, and I pulled up pictures on my iPad and showed him mine and made some suggestions on what to look for. My sister sees the picture and blurts out “You’ve got a bike? But you’re not allowed!” before we all burst out laughing. It reminded me of the _Friends_ ep where Monica and Ross say they aren’t allowed to play football. Something similar happened the first time my brother visited me in Chicago. He saw a bottle of single malt and gasped “How did you get this?” I was 23 at the time, and he’s a year younger, so I just looked at him. “Oh. Right.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-heard-at-your-thanksgiving-gathering/675045/45 "2013-12-17T18:46:39Z")
> [@Drum\_God](#): > > **What’s the craziest thing you heard at your Thanksgiving gathering?** “And here’s to Squanto and Massasoit and the Wampanoag! Our colony couldn’t have made it through the winter without you guys!” – Uncle Ferd, just before his fatal blunderbuss accident ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-thing-you-heard-at-your-thanksgiving-gathering/675045/46 "2013-12-17T19:50:10Z")
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