This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Bentley chapter.
Because is it really a family holiday without some sort of drama?
1/17: “One Thanksgiving when I was younger, I decided to get in my aunt’s dog cage to see what it felt like to be a dog. It was super funny until my cousin decided to lock me in there.”
2/17: “As a kid, we once woke up on Thanksgiving to find HUNDREDS of white plastic spoons stuck all over our front lawn. We spent Thanksgiving morning picking up over 1000 spoons. We later found out that our neighbors had been home from college for Thanksgiving, threw a huge party, and drunkenly “spooned” our yard at 3 AM.”
3/17: “Once at Thanksgiving dinner, someone asked my aunt to pass an extra napkin. She went to hand it across the table but accidentally held the napkin over one of the candles and set it on fire.”
4/17: “One time in high school, I was wearing a skirt with a belt to Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma’s house and I ate so much mashed potatoes and turkey that I literally exhaled and broke my belt right off my body.”
5/17: “I took my international friend home for Thanksgiving last year. My family got a little rowdy towards the end of the night, and we ended up doing shots with my dad, aunt, and drunken neighbor.”
6/17: “My dad, who is an ambitious cook, once decided to tackle a “Turducken” for Thanksgiving (for those of you who don’t know, that’s a duck stuffed inside a chicken, then stuffed inside a turkey). It turned out so badly that he left the table to drop kick it off our back porch in the middle of dinner.”
7/17: “One time my family got so many people together for Thanksgiving (like over 30 people) that the table literally went through the entire house. If I wanted to get to the kitchen for more food or a drink, I had to walk out of the front door, across the yard, and in through the back door.”
8/17: “Every year my family does a football pool, and every year PopPop wins, even though he never knows what teams are playing or what the score is.”
9/17: “My sister brought her then-boyfriend (now fiancé) home for Thanksgiving once they had been dating for a few months. All the kids were just hanging out when we heard yelling from my brother and my sister’s fiancé fighting upstairs. Long story short, my brother bit him before pushing him down the stairs.”
10/17: “My aunt’s golden retriever stood up next to the counter one year and ate almost the entire pecan pie. Her face was entirely covered!”
11/17: “When my cousins and I were little, we had a contest of who could drink the most apple juice. Basically we went shot for shot with juice boxes until we threw up.”
12/17: “My cousin wore my aunt’s engagement ring to Thanksgiving dinner for some reason and lost it in my grandmother’s HUGE front yard.”
13/17: “My grandma puts wet paper towels in the Caesar salad to keep it crisp before she serves it, but one time she forgot to take it out, and I fished a full paper towel sheet out of my salad at dinner.”
14/17: “My aunt brought her new boyfriend home for Thanksgiving one year and he made deviled eggs. Nobody was eating them, so me and my cousins made my little sister eat one. She did, but she spit it out right in front of him.”
15/17 “My cousin once tried to make butter for Thanksgiving. It was absolutely awful but she got mad that nobody ate it.”
16/17 “Every year my mom makes us play ‘Thanksgiving Day Parade Bingo,’ and there’s always a fight because someone lies to win one of the gift cards my mom gets as prizes.”
17/17 “Once my cousins made a dance to ‘If You Wanna Be My Lover’ by The Spice Girls but told me I was too young to be in it. So I made my own dance to my favorite song at the time: ‘Volcano’ by Jimmy Buffet.”