It was more just something I witnessed, but it’ll always make me laugh😂
So, a little necessary backstory: I have a half-brother who’s like 25 years older than me, with special needs, in state care. He has a very childlike mentality, so he’s like hanging around a seven year old in some ways: incessantly talking and thinking out loud, asking you kind of inane questions, doesn’t have a filter when it comes to regards for the feelings of others. Like one Christmas he gave my mother a “stepmother”-specific card (she would famously get teared up for EVERY Hallmark sentiment, and we’d all smirk to each other about it as an inside joke), and the waterworks start coming, we’re all laughing to ourselves, and she says “oh, Robbie…this card is just BEAUTIFUL!” And my bro, totally deadpan as always, goes “It was the only one they had for stepmothers.”🤣🤣🤣
And my mom never quite adjusted to how you have to take him, so they would have occasional friction and she’d get visibly annoyed, and my dad and I thought it was so funny.
SO…. Thanksgiving morning 1996, I’m up at the asscrack of dawn for my last ever high school football game (Thanksgiving Day high school football is a HUGE tradition here, it’s basically the equivalent of “Rivalry Week” in college ball. The games are in the morning, you play your archrival, often a neighboring town, and then come home for the afternoon and do your Thanksgiving festivities).
My mom is also up, hard at work getting the meal prepped by herself. My bro, who was visiting and had slept over, is up too, walking around and muttering to himself.
So my mom is wrist-deep in a bowl of stuffing mix, kneading it before putting it in the bird. My brother walks in and sees her, and says “Oh, are you making us French toast for breakfast? Or just sausages and eggs?” And I will never forget the “are you fucking kidding me right now?” face she gave him. If looks could kill😂😂😂 She told him to pour himself a bowl cereal, lmao.
So, I don’t know if that’s funny for anyone else, especially without seeing my mom’s facial reaction, but it sure is funny to me😝
He’s hilarious. You can’t have any expectations of emotional reciprocation or he’ll hurt your feelings every single time😂 Every time I take him out for lunch and bowling with my dad in tow, when we bring him back to his home they have him in, my dad always tries to have this formal “goodbye” with him, and the elephant in the room is that my dad is pushing 93, so there’s no guaranteed “next time” at this phase. I literally have to have the child locks on the back doors because if not, he’ll just be IMMEDIATELY out the door and gone as soon as the car comes to a stop, no “thank you”, no “goodbye.” So that’s my dad and I’s inside joke now, the urgency that my bro leaves the car with after taking him out for a nice time. It’s nothing personal, part of his condition is that he mentally shifts gears to “the next thing”, so he’s home, now it’s all about what he wants to do at home and he gets tunnel vision.
So I’m like “ok, it was nice seeing you, Robbie. Make sure to say goodbye to Dad.”, and have to forcefully extract it. But the rest of the time he’s semi-frantically going “The door’s locked…the door’s locked…the door’s locked….” until we release him. He’s a hootnanny, as the kids say😂
Many years ago, we went to my mother-in-law's house for Thanksgiving. She prepared the turkey and cooked it in the oven for the prescribed amount of time. When she took it out of the oven, she realized she forgot to put the stuffing in. Worse than that, though, the plastic bag, with the neck, heart and gizzards in it, was still in the cavity, half cooked.
My mom bringing up my little brother's (who was 12 at the time) crusty socks and then mom and dad's faces when I explained it to them. Also my brother's face when I explained it to them
Thanksgiving in the UK with my husband when we were dating. We don't do it in the UK but I took a stab at it for him, even calling up his mother from recipes
Last year. It was my first Thanksgiving with my boyfriend and we spent it with his family. It was an absolute blast! What made it even better, is Green bay beat the Lions pretty bad. I live in Packer country now 🙄
My birthday falls around Thanksgiving sometimes on. We had a combined Thanksgiving making 8 people. Boys were young and their 2 girls were and it was also my birthday. I was asked if I wanted a birthday cake I said no just stick a candle in a pumpkin pie which they did. There was so much food and dessert I felt like a glutton. Every person was happy, even the weather was great.
that time uncle Jimmy brought a homeless person to dinner with him. It ended up being his roommate. I thought he was homeless though... found out later that they were both actually homeless
my sister said he was homeless and other people started referring to him as his roommate. Later I found out that they were both homeless. I don't think people wanted to tell me that my uncle was homeless for some reason lol
You and I talked about a little bit last night, the first Thanksgiving I spent with my mom after she got out of prison. Thanks for always being there for me, Mandy ❤️
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