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Posted on 11/27/24 at 11:03 pm to BrohemAlem11
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Nothing says love and holidays like persistent obligation
In our family we call it mandatory fun. Thankfully our family is pretty drama free because we all have thick skin (it’s a double meaning as we are both fat and emotionally calloused). Nothing will get you made fun of harder than getting your feelings hurt.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 11:05 pm to madamsquirrel
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My MIL is that person. Doesn't try to get the family together any other time of the year but insists on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Gets super upset when everyone can't make it. Every year.
Are you me? What’s worse is my family is way better and even my wife admits it. Always a competition with the MIL about who got who the previous year.
Posted on 11/27/24 at 11:16 pm to The Boat
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Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Gets super upset when everyone can't make it. Every year.
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Always a competition with the MIL about who got who the previous year
The worst thing about these people is these days aren't quality time at all...especially if they have anything to do with it.
It's let cram everyone in the house and have the picture perfect meal and be sure to take group pictures..WAIT cousin so and so isn't in it...GO GET HIM.
They scheme and push and don't actually enjoy a single second...it's infuriating to be around
Posted on 11/27/24 at 11:29 pm to BrohemAlem11
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They scheme and push and don't actually enjoy a single second...it's infuriating to be around
Agreed
And to piggyback on what others have said…I’ve always been the guy who gets to sleep on some shitty air mattress in the kids playroom. That way I get to wake up at 7AM while they fire up the XBox.
When I got married, shite didn’t change. We always had to travel out of town because we didn’t have kids. Our holiday season was spent driving 4 hours to see my side of the family, then 2 more to see her family, then finally 2 more back home.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 12:21 am to LeeeroyJenkins
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. He is in a room playing online computer games or whatever the frick you call it
Your username is LeeeroyJenkins. I’m pretty sure you know what the frick to call online computer games.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 2:32 am to pioneerbasketball
I look forward to better stories than what happened to me last year. We were playing bourré (if you’re playing sober you’re doing it wrong). We were listening to golden oldies country radio. We thought my youngest brother missang the lyrics to some old song and dropped the n-bomb. He did not take the joking well and flipped the bourré table over.
This post was edited on 11/28/24 at 3:06 am
Posted on 11/28/24 at 6:42 am to The Boat
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Always a competition with the MIL about who got who the previous year.
At least it’s your MIL.
My mother is the type to soft demand every holiday be with them and if the in laws (who we like very much) want to see us for the holidays they are welcome to join.
I’m pretty sure if I told my mom we were gonna do christmas morning with my in laws she’d spend a week depressed in bed.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 6:47 am to BrohemAlem11
We live away.
I don’t always drive over for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
We do one seasonal drive over.
I hate Thanksgiving traffic.
I’m an a-hole.
I don’t always drive over for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
We do one seasonal drive over.
I hate Thanksgiving traffic.
I’m an a-hole.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 6:50 am to makersmark1
Anybody else have family that must bring their dogs with them? 
Posted on 11/28/24 at 6:55 am to tigersownall
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You have two separate beds in your bedroom??
My old room is above the garage. It’s huge.
So when I left home, my Mom put 2 Queen beds in the room for guests.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 7:13 am to TexasTiger08
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who gets to sleep on some shitty air mattress
When my stepmom came up with the idea of air mattresses and rented cots so we could all stay at her house and me being 49 years-old and my wife 46, I just told her I was too damn old to be sleeping on the floor or 10 inches above the floor and sharing a bathroom with 10 other people. I told her that's why God invented hotels. My older brother and his wife said amen to that so we stayed 15 minutes from her house and didn't miss a thing by not sleeping there.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 7:19 am to pioneerbasketball
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Anybody else have family that must bring their dogs with them?
Sometimes the dogs are worse than the worst kid(s).
Usually it’s the people with the worst dog who has to bring them. I punted my aunt’s (no pics) dog a few years ago while I was outside trying to help set everything up to watch the iron bowl. She ended up taking it and herself inside our cousins camper for the rest of the evening. Best IB ever.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 7:21 am to BrohemAlem11
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be sure to take group pictures..WAIT cousin so and so isn't in it...GO GET HIM
We must be related
Posted on 11/28/24 at 7:25 am to TiptonInSC
Last year my FIL said screw it and we didn't do anything for Thanksgiving. We live 30 minutes away anyway, see y'all at Christmas. Well my wife said this year, can we at least do something small, come to your house for lunch, we will bring the food. He obliged and set up a few more relatives to come over for a couple of hours (never lasts longer than that, never any drama)
Well my whole damn family has the flu. Me, wife, all 3 kids, 102 fevers all over the house.
Should have just let FIL keep it cancelled anyway.
Well my whole damn family has the flu. Me, wife, all 3 kids, 102 fevers all over the house.
Should have just let FIL keep it cancelled anyway.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 7:38 am to pioneerbasketball
Okay, brace yourselves for the most fantastic Thanksgiving morning ever! My mother-in-law, the one who smokes like a chimney, weighs every bit of 250 pounds, and could give Dolly Parton a run for her money in the cleavage department, decided to bless us with her presence all week long. She's the queen of "mom jeans" and has somehow managed to bring her elderly cat, Precious, who's already claimed the bathroom mat as her personal litter box.
Oh, and did I mention her third ex-husband came too? The one who's so liberal he thinks we Southerners are responsible for all the world's problems. They're currently arguing over the perfect Thanksgiving drink pairing: Fireball or Crown Royal Blackberry. I'm not sure which is worse – the choices or the fact they're even discussing it at the breakfast table for the better part of an hour while flipping channels between CNN and low budget never heard of Christmas shows.
I'm pretty sure this week is going to be a real hoot.
Oh, and did I mention her third ex-husband came too? The one who's so liberal he thinks we Southerners are responsible for all the world's problems. They're currently arguing over the perfect Thanksgiving drink pairing: Fireball or Crown Royal Blackberry. I'm not sure which is worse – the choices or the fact they're even discussing it at the breakfast table for the better part of an hour while flipping channels between CNN and low budget never heard of Christmas shows.
I'm pretty sure this week is going to be a real hoot.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 7:49 am to ELLSSUU
Enjoy the mayhem. Like the all state guy
Posted on 11/28/24 at 7:57 am to makersmark1
Nope, that’s smart. We travel for tgiving to visit various relatives, but Christmas, stay home. I don’t want to spend my holidays on the road.
Posted on 11/28/24 at 8:03 am to ELLSSUU
That sounds awful
Posted on 11/28/24 at 8:04 am to Homesick Tiger
Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream coffee #3 while I wait for the smoker to come to temp
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