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I'd rather not spend it alone, but I don't want to see any relatives and most friends are doing shite with their own families now. Being 29 and single has its ups and downs, this is one of the downs.

I was lucky enough to work with people that always invited me to come eat with them. When I was 29, I was going to the parents of a lady I worked with. They lived in town and served a big meal where I just showed up. Her mom fed us, gave us some leftovers and sent us home with a whole pumpkin pie. I did that with them until the lady I worked with got married and moved away.

When I was in my early 20's I worked the Cowboy game every Thanksgiving. Back in the 80's they served Turkey and dressing to all of the media and made the Texas Stadium employees serving it dress like Pilgrims.

OP is anyone dressing like a Pilgrim at your house tomorrow?

Went to a married coworker's house for several years after that. Even after he left the company. They always had a bunch of people over and everyone brought stuff. Sometimes I took a date and other times went alone. I usually bought a pie from the grocery store deli. The guy had two stepsons in high school. The grownup guys always played a tackle football game against his sons and their neighborhood friends. We had to cheat to beat them most years. Pretty sure we quit playing them after they beat us once.

There were a few years where I stayed home, grilled a steak and watched football by myself. Never felt like I was missing anything and was glad to be eating a rib eye. Who the heck wants turkey over that? Who wants to have to clean up a kitchen?

I moved back to Louisiana after my parents got older. Since I moved back in 2011, I drive them to Branson every Thanksgiving. They've been coming up here since the early 90's. A bunch of my mom's sister's family from Vidalia, Bastrop, and out of state stay up here for the whole week. Sixteen people will come over and eat here tomorrow.

I love doing this now, but I don't regret not coming or getting together with them all of the years I lived in Dallas.

This post was edited on 11/23/16 at 8:31 pm