Story 2: Sounds like the mom is insecure that OP was making a pie that everyone actually liked instead of a pie with unfavorable alternative ingredients (just don't a pie next time). And then there's the *30* year old sister who basically threw a *3* year old's tantrum over a snort sound. Yeah, not OP's fault, the mom and sister need to get their crap together
After that stunt, the only gifts mom and sister would ever get from me would be pig themed. I'd also bring two pudding pies to the next gathering (hiding one). Yeah, I'm a petty witch.
Been in a similar situation. Best solution is usually to make a comment that seems like it's trying to be generous while pointing out the terrible choice. For this situation I'd probably go "OK, so next year I will need to bring at least 3 by the sounds of it. My pie is so much more popular no one managed to eat their fill of it; even my sister ate the whole thing and still looks like she wants more." Thus shaming everyone and demonstrating that you're just going to double down on it until people act nice, yet pretending to instead just be really considerate and wanting to ensure everyone gets to enjoy themselves.
Hmm … I like these solutions, but, maybe even asking the aunt if you could borrow her kitchen for a “most popular pie-making tutorial” so no gather has to go without that pie … of course, that way risks everyone getting piggy noises made at them.
@@RudesMom My family has to have two pudding pies every year because they go so fast! LOL Yeah, what the mother did and how easily the sister complied in ruining the pie for everyone else is awful and I would also make two pies next time just to ensure they don't pull that crap again! Funny that the mother is so worried about HER weight but is fine shoving an entire pie, she refuses to make, down her daughter's throat before people get a chance to taste it! Sounds like a narcissistic mother who can't handle the praise OP received.
Would have definitely pressed assault charges on the aunt for throwing a hot turkey and causing burns. With the video, an open and shut case. I would get damages and a restraining order.
AND send her a turkey & cleaning bill! (Salmonella you know) What a waste of a Family Holiday! I hope her son has plans for moving out at 18 !!! Grace should have everyone saying how grateful, happy & peaceful without the witch there. Maybe nephew can move in with OP?❤ 18's not far🎉
@@AncykerAssaulting a Minor is something that any State’s Attorney’s office take extremely serious and that aunt would be looking at serious charges and jail time
Story #3: I always hated it when co-workers would use the “you have no kids” excuse to get time off over me. It was nice when a new HR Director started. She implemented a seniority and job importance based vacation system. My mom sent the director a thank you note for allowing me to have time off over the Holidays for the first time since I had started. Just because someone doesn’t have kids, it doesn’t mean they don’t have a family.
Was looking for a comment like this or post one myself. It is really annoying they assume because you have no kids means you don't spend time with the rest of your family or anything, like once you're an adult the rest of your family just vanishes or something unless you all have kids?
How I see it is this, its upto the workplace to decide who is working over a holiday break, not the workers. Now while the workers can put in for time off, it should also be tracked when they do put in for it, specially over said holidays. That way if they get a worker who never takes time off, is childless and steps in to swap shifts, then out of the blue suddenly wants those days off and puts in for those days to be off, they are automatically approved. Such workplaces however would need to have a deadline of when such holidays are put in for, for obvious reasons. Usually such is done within two weeks prior to the new roster being created. Now, when it comes to someone that has those days off, such as OP in the story, no other worker has the RIGHT to continue to harass once they are told no. OP in that situation should have immediately just go "Sure, if YOU say so." then marched to the boss and gone "Hey, just so you know, I didnt tell Karen I would trade with them, so sure hope you are not scheduling me on my official day off, because I wont be here since I'll be with family, and will be under the influence. Also, I just know she plans on trying to harass me further about such, so I advise you have a talk to her."
Agreed don't know what difference having kids makes to anything ever, there's plenty of reasons people might want weekends and holidays off aside from kids. Luckily it's not very common where I am in working out rosters and leave
It's like telling management, "they have kids, so you shouldn't promote them since they won't be able to commit enough time to the company." Two sides of the same f'd up coin.
She started the whole mess because no one likes her shitty replacement of an actually delicious pie. No one likes miserable substitutes of the real thing.
Story 2: If that were me, I'd do a lot more than oink. I'd be beyond furious. Like, give me that pie so i can throw it at you furious, and the mom laughing? Someone oughta screamed her.
Son watches his mom lose her shit and throw a hot turkey at someone, gets burned in the process, & not only does she not care, lies about her own son. That's enough to never forget as long as you live. She needs professional help.
Story 1. The OP should have pressed charges. Story 2. If I were the OP I would give both the mother and the sister an invoice for the cost of the ingredients and punitive charges for malicious devouring of the pie. Story 3. Just because someone doesn't have kids doesn't mean they don't have a family. Story 4. The OP needs to never let either one of their parents be unsupervised with any children they have no matter what.
I love how people are like "you don't have kids, so you don't deserve holidays off!" but forget that those people are someone's kids. and - they can celebrate however they want, so eff off, Karen.
I help make the pies and cakes and I even have own special recipe that gets requested by the family which is bacon wrapped weenies with brown sugar on them
My mom used to make Texas Refrigerator pie (which sounds like the pudding pie OP is talking about except its long and rectangular) and pumpkin pies, until I learned how to do the Refrigerator pie. After that, I was always the one that had to make it. Sometimes I change it up by switching the types of nuts used to make the crust or adding chocolate chips into the pudding mix.
Story 4: Anyone who uses religion to control people really upset me because of their holier then thou attitude thinking they’re superior then everyone else.
Just a quick question though, wasn't Jesus Jewish or atleast born into a Jewish*** family? I'm like 89% sure that Christianity and Judaism are like brother and sister almost. Edit: Changed "Christian family" to "Jewish family". Sorry for the confusion
Yeah Jesus was Jewish. The split happened because while Jews believe Jesus was a prophet he was not the Messiah. Honestly it's always baffled me that Christianity persisted when the bible still states that Jews are God's people. (Born as a Baptist, tho agnostic now BTW.)
Isn't that the whole point of religion? Threaten people with damnation if they don't obey your rules and promise them joyous salvation if they do obey?
@@rxgeborn1976Jesus was born jewish, and as the other guy stated, Jews saw him as a prophet but not as the son of God and the Messiah. According to the bible, the Jews still are God’s chosen people, we as Christians are like extended family. It’s a little bit more complicated than that though. However, according to the Bible the Jews still have a special status, and we, as Christians should treat them as family, seen from a religious standpoint. Hope that clarifies it. If not, feel free to ask, I‘ll do my best to answer. I‘m well versed, but I‘m not a theologian.
OP is a jerk for taking his girlfriend anywhere near his family. "The Thanksgiving from Hell I had to endure". Ummm...Hell for HIM??? The girlfriend was the target and OP just let his father tear into his girlfriend????OP didn't stop him? Any real man would have ripped dad a new one, maybe literally. He's in his late 20's and needs mommy and daddy's permission to marry? Why is the girlfriend with this person?
I knew it, I knew at some point we would get a Karen who threw a turkey I wonder what will happen during Christmas, maybe a Karen who demands that OP's husband kiss her under the mistletoe, or a Karen who demands OP's presents because she has more kids than them
Turkey Story: If I were OP, I'd have told Aunt "If you have nothing nice to say, SHUT THE FUCK UP or leave my home and never return!". The moment she threw the still hot, deep-fried Turkey at me, I'd have grabbed my phone and called 911 to have the Police and EMT's sent here...the Police to Arrest Aunt for Assault with a Weapon (throwing the Turkey at me), Destruction of Property (the Turkey) and Assaulting a Minor causing Injury (Cousin getting burned by the hot Turkey juices)... and EMT's to treat Cousin's burns... Edit: I hope Aunt Karen burned her hands when she picked up the Turkey to throw it at OP!
Yeah also throwing a still hot deep fried Turkey at someone while result in her own kid being harmed could have resulted in her being thrown into the back of a police cruiser for assault and child negligence/endangerment/abuse since her son was still considered a minor by the law because he was 17 years old. And burns caused by cooking grease can cause Second to Third Degree Burns to a person’s skin. And if that hot grease came into contact with water. That’s Grease fire right there which would then result in Attempted Arson and Attempted Murder(on multiple counts depending on how many people are inside the structure.)
I dare any of my relatives to behave badly at gatherings because they know I'm the psycho who had belted the ever loving crap outta my aunts, uncles and grandparents before. Never had any outbursts ever again and everyone always behaves when I'm around. I have zero tolerance for badly behaved family members.
Story 2: their mother and selfish sister ruined Thanksgiving. Story 3: go full no contact with the non-Christian "Christian" parents. I was raised in a true believer family and I think "churches" can be some of the most destructive forces ever
@@MuffinHunterXThank you. I have long made a distinction between "real Christians" and "Sunday Christians". I trust I don't need to explain. When you think about it, though, why do people go to school? To get educated, right? So why go to church? As I see it, because you need the guidance to find God. Unfortunately, the institution has gotten so warped that now it's usually the blind leading the blind... although I've been to a couple churches with actual good people. They do exist. Matthew 18:20 - "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them." God bless you all. 💝
A few Karens needed a life lesson in how to be human in family groups. My husband and I had a few things like that. When we met, we moved in with each other in about six weeks. We were both in our mid 30s, both been married previously, and I had 4 kids. When he took me up to meet his parents, it was funny. Mom took him aside and told him to just live with me, not marry me since "all she wants is a dad for the kids" (not so, because they had dads --married twice before and I was on good terms with the ex's because of the kids). His dad got him aside and told him to marry me and make an honest woman of me. They had us sleeping apart, me in his room, him on the couch in the living room. That was Labor Day weekend. We went up for Thanksgiving, having gotten married October 31st (yes, Halloween). He didn't talk to mom but told dad we had gotten married. He had us move into the bedroom together. When he told dad, he asked what he should tell mom since she didn't want us to get married. 'What your mother doesn't know, won't hurt us." We didn't officially tell her until about 5 years later, after dad passed away. But I had written the date and birthdays on the family card on the refrigerator so I knew she knew. I also pissed my sister-in-law off. She was 20 years my husband's senior. She had tried, and failed, to make mom's yeast rolls over the years. I got there for a Thanksgiving and made the rolls, first time, and they were perfect. She wasn't happy. And after my husband had to have heart surgery to replace a bad aortic valve, I called her to tell her he was okay. It was then that she said they knew he had a heart murmur as a kid. We had NO idea about this and if I could have reached through that phone, I would have strangled her (mom and dad had passed by this time.) Ahhh, family. Can't live with them, can't put them in the trunk.
Story 1 is a case of “This is my opinion on deep fried turkey. NOBODY else’s opinion matters, no matter that literally every other person loves it and I will act like a spoiled toddler if you don’t agree with ME”
@@SMDoktorPepperNot the worst. Boiling or microwaving are probably worse. I agree though that it is not a good way to cook it. I totally respect OPs opinion on the matter though.
Some people and cultures really like deep fried food, others it’s bar-b-q, or slow roasted, or pit roasted, or Dutch oven cooked, or croque pot cooked … everyone has their favorites. Destroying the one you are offered for everyone out of petty jealousy? That is wrong in every culture.
@@SMDoktorPepperDon't tell my coworker. She and her family deep fry their turkey, and after trying all kinds, deep frying is all she'll have for turkey.
Story 3: I hate it when people use their kids as an excuse to claim higher priority on something everyone wants. Yes, I have kids. We have rescheduled our celebrations of holidays and birthdays because of work/school/etc countless times. "Oh no! We're not eating turkey at the SAME TIME as everyone else! 😭" Cry me a frickin' river, Karen.
Ugh! People who demand holidays and weekends off or for people to work for them just because they have kids really upset me. I have kids and I would never do this. Childless people still have families and still deserve time off. They still deserve to have plans.
I used to volunteer to work holidays when I was younger because I wanted people who have kids or far away family to be able to be with them. When I got a bit older I decided to take my time off over the holidays to spend with my aging family. A few people got REALLY mad about that. The thing is, I've seen people saying they got similar reactions to that when they had their own kids. If it was truly about the kids then that should be a way to start taking holidays off without drama, but it's not. It doesn't matter if people are blaming/using turkey, pies, kids, or religion. It's almost never any of those things. If they didn't cook, have kids, or believe in any religion they'd just be using some other excuse to justify being crappy people.
It always pisses me off as a mother when people with kids try to guilt child free coworkers to trade shifts. As I pointed out to one such person, yeah they don't have kids but they are someone's kid and deserve to spend time with whomever they want.
Thanksgiving from HELL Story: OP needs to tell his Parents that either they stop trying to dictate who OP Dates and/or Marries or he WILL go Full No Contact with them and they will NEVER meet any Grandchildren OP has...OP does need to tell his Brother that who he Marries is none of their business and the Parents have no say in the matter!
I'm wondering if the sister had issues with overeating or something and mom took advantage by egging her on to just eat the whole pie... if so she's basically the supervillain of the story...
I definitely would have charged my aunt with a salt with the turkey as well as the fact that she destroyed it if that's damaged to property. Also probably call the police and have her charge with assault of a minor and get her ass in jail for that too.
Story 4: It's nice that the father and grandmother eventually realized their problems and fixed it (or at least are in the process of it), but man was that a real mess. They really were, at one point, so disproving of OP marrying someone that isn't Christian that they were trying to bribe the GF, followed by bad harassment.
someone who is against Jews are not Christian at all. Christ, His Mother Mary, Joseph and the apostles were jewish and people like those people are hypocrites.
A father usually doesn't object to who their children are going to marry with, except when he smells a gold digger in his future in laws. The objection usually comes from the mother, for some reasons.
@@ElCid48 And yet it happens all the time. My SO’s parents are pretty religious. Spending time with his mom is uncomfortable when she gets on a jesus rant. Some of his extended family is even MORE religious. His aunt actually told him he needs to “stop dating these Jewish women and find a nice Catholic girl to settle down with.” Her daughter IMMEDIATELY called her out when she said that tho. He doesn’t care, he’s an atheist, we’re engaged, and we’ve agreed that he’ll be the one to tell them we plan to raise our future kids Jewish. That should be interesting.
One Christmas get together I hosted the family dinner for about 50. My bil came through and filled over half his plate with mashed potatoes,about 6 servings. I took his plate and dumped the potatoes back and gave him one scoop and told him come back when everyone got their turn. By the end there was none left mostly because the last few brothers split what was left to enpty the pan.
With families like the ones in these stories, I'd refuse to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas with them for the sake of my mental health... That mother and father from the last story... I don't think I would've forgiven them that easily.
Story 1: Sounds like Karen committed aggravated battery, battery, and child endangerment or possibly even child abuse. Story 2: I thought OP was going to throw the mom's pie. Didn't expect an oink, lol. Story 4: OP should have said he broke up with his GF because he "found someone else that's Christian." Then when his parents asked for her name he should have said, "His name is Steve." If they were that upset about a Jewish girl they might actually explode from that. 😂
That's a lot of money to spend on someone who wasn't even the main problem. Like yeah, the sister deserves some heat, but the mom was the one who told her to do it because she was a big, petty bitch and for some reason no one told *her* off??
Story 1: the fact that the sister was the only one that OP said anything to is leaving me feeling like it wasn’t enough, the mom deserved some words too for what she did and how she acted. OP took it easy on them tbh. Story 4: dad or not i’m leaving that house in cuffs cause he’s not gona get away woth doing that shit.
Regarding story 4: It sounds like OP's girlfriend would have done that herself... and he knew it. When OP said his dad had the GF in tow (not toe - lol!), I pictured him grabbing her by the arm and physically dragging her in. But it seems she followed him in willingly, because women like that don't put up with being manhandled.
If I had an entitled mum who destroyed a pie/dessert I had made while hers remained on the table. I would have calmly indicated it by picking it up. “Is this your dessert? Is it really nice? THEN HAVE SOME!” The yell combined with slamming it in her face.n My actual mother (whom I repeatedly thank for bringing me up to appreciate things in life and not let me be entitled) is awesome. She makes desserts that are delicious. She doesn’t always have dessert, but appreciates that her guests and I like desserts and that we appreciate how good she is at cooking them.
When OP was forewarning us in advance this is exactly what I thought was gonna happen. I'm not sure that insulting the sister was justified. I feel like there is more going on there, like the sister having an overeating disorder and the mom exploiting it to get rid of the pie.
Story 1 - I admit I'm something of a finicky eater, but I can't imagine making a huge mess and ruining everyone else's Thanksgiving just because I wasn't crazy about the food. That woman is nuts! By the way, deep-fried turkey was a new dish to me a few years ago, and I found it quite tasty, Story 2 - I normally don't condone fat-shaming, but OP was not wrong in this case. If someone hogs a whole pie (no pun intended), then I say they're fair game.
We've had deep fried turkey once for a Christmas family reunion. It sounds like it would be gross but i agree with the rest of the family, its really good. I think part of the karen's problem is that it is a non traditional method that turned out better than hers.
Deep fried turkey story: I wonder if Aunt Karen thinks her little temper tantrum is going to get her chosen to do Thanksgiving in the future? Pudding pie story: And no one else actually told the sister not to take off with the entire pie? But mom is even worse. Family story: Good grief! While religion can and does play a role in many relationships, the only people whose business it actually is, is the couple's.
Story 2: Sometimes you have to call a pig what it is, especially since *everyone* knew that pie wasn't made just for her. The ones defending her are no better than her. I hope the aunt learns from this and doesn't invite the mom and sister next year or at least has a plan in place if they show up anyway.
The 30 year old sister should probably know better, but … having been basically given permission to indulge, and then being called out on it? Not the most adult thing on either side, but … unfortunately accurate, which is probably why such a big reaction. The mom who set it up? She’s the real villain.
The pie story makes me think of a dessert my mom used to make. A few years ago, one of my sisters made it for a family gathering, but she substituted Cool Whip for the whipped cream. It tasted *horrible.*
I like cool whip, but it is not whipped cream. It is, in fact, whipped vegetable oil. It works fine as a topping on some stuff, but I wouldn't use it in a pie... your sister is weird 😅
Story 3 - Wow. So mom decides she should diet and instead makes her daughter eat the bad stuff? And in the worst way possible to boot, on Thanksgiving when most diets don't apply anyway? Every doctor I've known says that it's OK to cheat one day out of the year and not to worry about what you are eating for Thanksgiving dinner, as long as you are good the other days. It's also very likely that the daughter was already having troubles keeping to a prescribed diet like her mom, and that's why she was so sensitive to the insult. That Karen truly is the worst of the worst.
Ahh … not quite, the mom had the sister horde the good one, so the only one left was mom’s failed experiment. In a way, a compliment to how good the good one was, just … the wrong way to go about it.
I mean, it does make a twisted sort of sense. If the sister puts on pounds, the mom looks even better by comparison! (I do NOT condone this thought process or method - just speaking it aloud.) What really raises my bile is the utter disrespect for both her offspring - her own pride over the sister's health, and over the son's happiness. Especially since she flat-out offered to let someone else make that pie if they wanted. And no, I don't think oinking at the sister was out of line. She didn't have to agree to eat that pie!
Hey Fluff; I had a similar kind of Thanksgiving event where someone dumped the Turkey onto the floor. It was my first Thanksgiving in my newly purchased home. My first house I owned. Well I wanted it to be special so I invited all of my near by relatives, including my Aunt (once removed/divorced) mainly because of my cousins. She's their Mom, but my Uncle divorced her due to her violent outbursts/fighting and alcoholism. So that Thanksgiving I marinated and then smoked A 25 lb. turkey and made a 23 lb. stuffed ham. I invited my 12 adult relatives and their kids. I had 3 college degrees, and an excellent job paying me with stock options and a lucrative six figure salary. Earlier that year, I was responsible for getting my company a 15 year contract worth in the upper tens of millions range, and I received a hefty commission, and bonus. It allowed me to pay cash for my 4 bedroom/2.5 bath/ 2 car garage home on 2 acres of waterfront property. So I really wanted to show it off since I owned it completely. Anyway, as I said earlier, everyone has arrived except my Aunt, and she shows up about 30 mins late, and she's drunk. My cousin goes over to talk to her, and tell her to not cause drama, and to lay off the alcohol to boot. Well, things go well for the last couple of hours the turkey and ham needed to finish cooking, and another twenty minutes to set all the food out in a buffet style table with me at the end carving the turkey and ham. My DA (drunkard aunt) got her plate and wanted the thigh of the turkey. I let her know that smoking a turkey means that the meat will not look the same as one roasted in an oven or deep fried. She blows me off and collected her food and stay hard a little to her seat. Well, we had a toast, and I spoke thanking everyone to my home, and to enjoy dinner. My father started saying the blessing, and about halfway through it, my Aunt starts pitching a drunken fit. How dare I serve her raw/under cooked turkey. That I'm trying to poison/kill her, and that I always do something mean and spiteful to her because she refused to let my Uncle destroy her life and happier, blah, blah, blah. She always finds something to complain about and cause a scene whenever she's drunk. FYI, smoked meat, especially poultry and fresh hams tend to be a bit pinkish in color when fully cooked. Anyway, we're all trying to tell her that it's fine while she continues her drunken rant. When my other cousin takes a piece and eats it to show its fine, she flips out and grabs a drumstick and throws it across the room while saying she's going to dump this gross excuse of turkey and ham while reaching for the platters of meat. Just then, my Mom (all 5' of her), bless her, grabs my aunt's hands, and screams at her to stop it, to shut her mouth and sit down or else. Of course, my Aunt demands, "or else what, like you could do anything to me?" Then, just like that my tiny dynamo of a mother snatched her by the hair, drug her away from the table, then put her into a chicken wing arm lock, and marched her out of the house before pushing her to flop face first onto my lawn. My Mom then locked the door, rejoined us, and asked my father to start the blessing over, which he did. Afterwards, someone commented on how my mom handled my Aunt, and my two cousins, her kids, said "yeah, that's why our Mom is terrified of Aunt Jenny, she's always has been." We all roared with laughter because my Mom was the oldest, and my Aunt was 5' 11", and weighed a good 60 lbs. more than my mother. So my new home was christened with a smoked Turkey Drumstick, and after sitting on my front porch for two hours sobering up, my Mom went and spoke with my Aunt, let her come back inside, and eat dinner while everyone else watched football and talked. She ended up having a decent time once she layed off the alcohol and sobered up. Still, thanks mom for saving my first Today at my homd, and I love and miss you every day, RIP.
On Story 2, I was fully expecting the “villain” move to be OP throwing the mom’s pie in the trash or destroying it some way- because that’s what I would have done 😅
I once had a dinner of 16 people and no working oven (we had 2 ovens and neither worked.) Deep fry 1 and roasted one on the grill!!! We got everything done. Used a door as a exrta part of the table and most of us sat in the hot tub on the water while crazy was going on in the house. I think we had 3 crockpots going and every pot in the house (restaurant size pots)
Story 1 - Throwing a 12+ pound turkey at someone, that's hot enough to cause noticeable physical burns on people (including a minor that's your own child), is almost assault with a deadly weapon, AND a second charge on a minor, and child abuse charges. Extensive burns are no joke. You don't have skin for looks...it keeps infections at bay that can be painfully fatal.
I had to scroll way too far to find a comment saying this. Still none that seem to remember the other cousins had left the room, the only ones in there were OP, Karen, and cousin. As in the 17 years old cousin... So the cousin that got burnt was a minor. Child endangerment, possibly child abuse.
Story 2: am I the only one who wants that pie recipe? Story 4: yet another example of how religion poisons people. I'm glad OP and his wife are doing well, but yes, they'd better keep their guard up once they have a child.
As much as I'd like to blame religion for stuff like this, religion isn't the reason. It's almost never the reason. Religion is the excuse. It's easy to tell this is the case as most people who are like this don't even follow their own religion. They just use it as a shield when called out for being awful people.
A few years ago my wife & her friend wanted to deep fry a Turkey, we had a large outdoor fryer,, once the oil was hot they tried to lower the turkey into the fryer the oil over flowed the pot (they put in to much oil), they ended up setting the Lawn on Fire,, & yes it involved a Fire extinguisher,, best thanksgiving ever,,🦃🦃🦃
see, THAT sounds fun, that's a story that'll be passed down for generations, your gonna tell your grandkids that story down the line & they're gonna WISH they'd been there, & they're gonna wanna deep fry a turkey just because of that story
Story 3: What really brings my piss to a boil, is that the whiners who go on about family time with kids daily to understand that the person without their own kids still has a family and a mother. What about said mom being able to spend time with her "kids"? I always hated this argument.
All - Thank you for being decent people. I can actually enjoy scrolling through the comment section on Fluff's videos, because yall aren't the sort of toxic trash-talkers found elsewhere on YT. No doubt part of that is Fluff's positive vibes echoing through his viewers, but yall CHOOSE to be civil and supportive here. In this day and age, that's very noteworthy. Thank you for that.
It's always fun to see stories where parents just seem to lose the ability to think and realize that just because a person doesn't have children that doesn't mean they don't have any family or loved ones to spend time with.
I grew up in Australia and so I’ve never celebrated or experienced “thanksgiving”, but I can honestly say that I have never been more relieved than when I heard the words - “back-up turkey”. Up hearing those words I experienced a physical reaction. A wave of relief washed over me and through my body. What wonderful words - back-up turkey 🤣
Honestly, I had family members say to me ‘break up with that guy you’re dating and marry a woman’ some of my family are harassing me because I am gay and they don’t accept it, my family are Jewish but I used to be but I am an atheist now. Honestly the bullshit I hear from them is ludicrous, they say me being gay has corrupted me and made me give up my faith.
I started dating my wife when I was 19 and she was 20. When my parents found out we were dating they asked to talk with my wife's mom to "decide if we should be allowed to date". We were like uh no, we're grown adults and we will date who we want. Even my wife's mom laughed when we told her why they wanted to talk to her.
Story 1 - That woman needs charges pressed for assaulting OP with a deadly weapon (the hot juices can permanently scar a person for life, you do NOT f with deep frying oils)
I have a type of PTSD. If a stranger touches me, especially from behind, and ESPECIALLY agressively. I just have a black out and i will most absolutely defend myself until i either snap out of it or someone else does who knows how to deal with PTSD people. Moral of the story = NEVER touch strangers. ESPECIALLY NOT IN AN AGRESSIVE WAY!!!!! EDIT : It's always funny how most Christians actually act the complete opposite of how they should act according to their god.
The ending of Story #4 reminds me of how I had “holy wars” with my family for a while! Backstory: My parents (Mom was raised Presbyterian, Dad was raised Episcopalian) sent me and my sister to Episcopal Sunday school as kids (Church of the Ascension-think “Catholic Lite”), and I grew up LOATHING Sundays because even as a kid Christianity disagreed with me! Every week I’d get into trouble for either objecting to something in the lesson or asking questions that couldn’t be answered just by quoting Scripture. I was finally able to “quituate” Sunday school at 14, and I left Christianity altogether at the same time. I discovered Wicca in college, and I’ve been following the Eclectic tradition ever since. It was when I “came out of the broom closet” to my parents that things got ugly. My mom, who had said I could choose whichever religion I wanted, hit the roof and refused to come down. When my husband and I got engaged and said we were having a Wiccan handfasting ceremony Mom even tried to prevent us from doing so, saying that she would only accept a Christian ceremony. Thank the gods for the Unitarian Universalist minister who took our side, and other than some pearl-clutching and eye-rolling from her whenever the Goddess and the God were mentioned, our wedding went off with no problems (our best man, who was my husband’s best friend and sided with us as well, was keeping an eye on her to make sure she wouldn’t flip out and ruin things). The next year my paternal grandfather died, and our religious beliefs became an issue again. We grandchildren were supposed to read eulogies, and the morning of the service my grandmother cornered me, insisted on pre-checking my eulogy “to make sure I didn’t mention the Goddess” and hit me with the order that we ALL had to receive Communion (church memorial service). I objected on the grounds that infant baptism was invalid because I hadn’t given my permission and I wasn’t a Christian regardless. She then made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: Either fake Christianity and take communion with the family, or I could consider myself disowned. (Rock, meet Hard Place!) So I took communion, but in hindsight I should’ve crossed my arms at the altar at the last second just to see if anybody would dare to object in public. At the time, I was just furious and terrified at the same time. The story has a happy ending, though-my parents came around when our older daughter was born and not only came to her Wiccan naming ceremony, but they even hosted our younger daughter’s naming ceremony nearly five years later! My paternal grandmother (who’s still steaming along at the ripe old age of 103 and doesn’t miss a thing!) has come around as well, but I’m praying she doesn’t try to sneak the communion requirement into _her_ memorial service as well!
Pie Story: I have never understood why people find it necessary to make "diet" versions of holiday food. One day isn't going to do more than prevent any weight loss _that week,_ and it's always possible to take just a small piece or even - gasp - refuse it completely.
Story 2. I was really hoping op would've taken the pie from her sister and said to her mom "hey I know a way no else will be able to eat this pie" and then threw it in her mom's face cuz ultimately that whole immature situation was the moms fault. That fact that she basically ruined something that she knew her daughter put so much work into is just horrible as a parent.
I'm thankful for always having a wonderful Thanksgiving with my immediate family! I feel sad for the BS that some family's endure for the holiday season!
Pudding pie: And sis suddenly became this little 3 year old eating the pie as opposed to acting like the 30 year old adult she's supposed to be because "mommy said so?" Scheduling story: And you KNOW that I don't have plans, how? Not obligated to do your work bidding in any way, shape, or form
Stories like #4 make me appreciate my & my husband's families, cuz it could have gone SO sideways. I was raised Catholic, he was raised Lutheran & Mormon. He is also part Apache. most of the kids are Wiccan. We total mesh it all together & really confuse most non-family...like the JW who came to the door. Bible next to Book of Mormon under an altar with sage on it & a Medalia on the wall with a crucifix
Story 1: My Aunt would be going to jail that day, if it was me. I really hope her son greatly distanced himself from her after she tried to throw him under the bus to cover her own ass. Story 2: Mom is the real culprit here. I'm surprised OP didn't rip into her for her obvious role as the mastermind behind ruining his superior pie. Story 3: You being a mom does not give you cart blanche to other people's vacation time. Story 4: Whooooo doggy... I imagine that a lot of blatantly anti-semetic slurs where getting lobbed at the girlfriend, from the dad. OP is a better person than me. The first time my parents act like that toward my serious girlfriend, I would tell them to eff off and go NC.
I used to work at Wally World way back when we cut meat. One Thanksgiving an old lady came in and demanded I cut the frozen turkey in half with the band saw. We did not cut poultry and we did not cut frozen. She also only wanted to buy half. When I told her we could not do that, she said she had no friends and couldn't use the whole bird. I was not going to get fired and again said no. She then took the 12 pound turkey and threw it at me and stormed out. Not the first time she did this, so I managed to dodge. Wonder why nobody wanted to come to her place for dinner. Reported it, but management was too busy to worry about it.
@Ancyker true, but I needed my job, and since she moved very well for an old witch and we had a very skeptical staff, I couldn't catch her or get someone to detain her. She actually never came by the meat department when I was working until about 3 years later. Statute had passed. At least since I did most of the morning markdowns, she almost never got good deals until I got deployed.
Story three..... So just because OP isn't married or has kids, he has no life to bother with!? My life's story too! Glad to be long retired now. No more workplace drama. 😎👍
Right?? Well, Mom told me to. . . As a mother (who would never say something like that) I would expect my kids to all say mom, are you ok? Then wtf?? You don't always Have to do what someone tells you to do even if they did give birth to you however many years ago.
#3 - Just because you had children, that doesn't give you a free pass to be a crappy co-worker and insist that any and all holidays AND weekends are for time off with your family. Singles or couples without children still actually DO have families and like to spend time with them (usually), whether the parent worker likes that or not. Tough noogies - you chose to have kids, deal with it!
Story 2: I hate it when someone says, “It won’t taste any different”. I’m extremely picky, plus I can’t stand certain textures. Also, I’ve had experiences where I’ve been lied to about food. Admittedly, I wasn’t consistently encouraged to try different food growing up (doesn’t help that I grew up with divorced parents).
The pie one, who takes a whole pie? That is so wrong, and she knew she was wrong. And the mom was no better. I don't blame the op for oinking, that's tamer than what I would say as a baker.
THIS THANKSGIVING: My roommate is a 70-year old... Karenish... lady. This year, I intended to spend Thanksgiving with a friend's family. Roommate was going to her family nearby. Early on Thanksgiving morning, my roommate was upset because her daughter had called (they don't get long), so she angrily dragged me to a nearby casino. I don't gamble. Usually I just try to keep the peace. S he also budgets specific amounts for gambling and doesn't go over, so that's not the issue. But she held me there late, and I ended up late to my friends. Okay. I went to my friends, began to have Thanksgiving - had to take some time off to go to my care client and swap his meds - returned for thanksgiving, and then got a litany of texts from my roommate. "When are you coming home?' "ETA?" "I need you home to unload groceries from the car." :Why aren't you home?" "Don't be selfish." SO ANYWAY, I had thanksgiving, and eventually went home. There was my roommate, upset and wailing "I HAVE NO FAMILY! NOBODY LOVES ME!" It turns out that when she went to HER family's for Thanksgiving, she got into a fight with her niece ten minutes in and then stormed out. Her family does not hate her. Her sister-in-law even came by the next day to tell her not to be melodramatic. But yes, she was mad at me. Somehow it was my fault. THE VERY NEXT DAY, I woke up on friday and bam. Roommate angrily says to go back to the casino and drags me there. Time passes, and I realize that I need to be home or I will be late to work. I point this out to her. She promptly gets angry and tells me that I am being extremely selfish for needing to get to my paying job on time. "Oh, it's the END OF THE WORLD if you are five minutes late to work!" "For me, it might be." "It's not like you're on the clock, anyway!" "Actually yes, the software that clocks me in is exact down to the second and records location." "Don't be selfish! You're always putting pressure on me!" "I don't want to be late to work because someone was gambling, the day after gambling on Thanksgiving." That was the wrong thing to say. She was angry. AND THEN SATURDAY. Saturday, I help my care client, and then afterward spend a couple of hours with an editor who is working with me on releasing a short story compilation. We work on fonts and formatting and such, and I return home at 6:30PM. Not very late. Roommate: "TELL THE TRUTH! Are you moving in with ((editor))? Because you're there all the time!" Me: "Because we are working on a project. For work." Roommate: "He's probably just gay and in love with you." And then my roommate was angry at someone else and yelled about someone else, and I had some sort of weird episode where I got dizzy and my left arm tingled. I hope it wasn't a cardiac incident? So anyway, that was my Thanksgiving this year. The old lady who pays 1/3 of the rent was not in a good mood. CHILDHOOD THANKSGIVING MEMORIES: * One Thanksgiving was when I was a kid, and my sister and I were arguing like little kids do. So we were yelling at each other and she shouted at me, “You ruined thanksgiving!” So of course, being a little kid, I started crying and said, “I RUINED THANKSGIVING!” But I did that right when there was a lull in conversation, so as far as everybody else was concerned it was a nice and normal, festive thanksgiving when suddenly this kid shouts, “I RUINED THANKSGIVING!” So that was our family joke for years. Like, every thanksgiving someone would say to me, “YOU RUINED THANKSGIVING!” * On another thanksgiving when my job was to refill everyone’s drinks. And they kept drinking all their water really fast, so I was constantly refilling glasses without a chance to sit down and eat. Eventually family started laughing and drinking fast on purpose because it was funny. By the time it slowed down and I sat down, everyone else was ready for dessert and they were mad at me for not being done with dinner yet, so I didn’t get to finish my plate. * It occurs to me that nearly all my thanksgiving stories sound like Roald Dahl wrote them. On another year I sat with my aunt on one side of me and my sister on the other. My aunt wouldn’t let me take any food when the platters came by because “Don’t be a greedy pig! Wait until everybody else is served before taking your own.” But then my sister said, “stop being a martyr and take some food! You’re ruining everything.” And neither one acknowledged what the other was saying.
I learned at an early age to hate all of the big holidays, weddings, graduations, family reunions and virtually any other event that seems to require "family togetherness". Starting at about age 10, when unable to avoid them, I did the bare minimum necessary to keep the vultures off my back and made my escape either to my room or out into the night. My favorite holidays are Arbor Day and National Dairy Week.
I threw her diet pie on top of the Mom, You can make the delicious pie but you don't have to eat it!!! Also I hope both of them got banned from the aunt's house for doing that stunt.
For the last story I heard this one on Reddit Brew. If Jesus Christ heard what Dad said about the girlfriend now wife he would’ve torn him a new one. Jesus would’ve also taken offense to the antisemitism
It's also funny how so many so called "Christians" seem to forget Jesus was Jewish. They'll also talk shit on Muslim's "heathen god" evidentially unaware they believe in and worship the same god.
My brother had diarrhea and I slept over at my parent's house where he was and I guess I caught the diarrhea so that's what I had to enjoy through Thanksgiving. As well as Friday and Saturday as I went on a road trip with my sister-in-law niece to do some Christmas shopping in our bigger town that's 4 hours away from us. We had to stay in the hotel to make sure we didn't hit any deer at night. I went and checked us in and I'm not sure but I think I saw bed bug droppings underneath my bed so I went to the front desk and asked if they could have somebody come in and check it. The front desk woman didn't know shit, and because I prepaid it through a third party they won't change your room so we had to sleep in the room. I'm praying that I'm not getting any bed bugs in my house but I'm taking all the precautions I can.
Story 2: Is your sister 3 or 30? Does she always do everything that mommy tells her to do? They both have a lot of growing up to do, and they also need to be held responsible for their individual actions resulting from their tantrums. No contact would be a start, after pressing charges for assault for the turkey incident. You and your cousin could have been seriously burned.
I've heard the pudding pie story before, it's still HILARIOUS! If mum didn't want anyone to make the pie, she shouldn't have told the family, (literally the whole family) that they could make it themselves! Shame on little piggy! The audacity! 😂😂😂
Story 2: i know what op means by pudding pie being significantly better, my family makes 2 every year because of how much i like them (its a small celebration, im just fat) but who seriously grabs the only one and eats most of it
*Story 4-* my hubby and I met online too, but his parents hated _everything_ about me! 😣 They never thought I was good enough for him, and I was always afraid to be around them! They always said bad stuff about me and always gave me dirty looks. The night before the wedding, his dad even tried to talk my hubby out of marrying me!!! My hubby and I have been married for 6 incredible years, but it took me at least 4 years to get use to his parents. 😮💨 After we got married, for some reason, his parents thought I was great! (Like a light switch!) And they didn’t know why I was nervous around them. 🤨
Probably shifted gears because they accepted there was nothing they could do about it now and they didn't want to risk being prevented from seeing any of your potential children or something.
Story 4 reminds me a lot of my mother's reaction to my first long term girlfriend. She literally banned her from the house despite never meeting her on account of her being bisexual. She used to regularly send me text messages saying things like "you don't have to accept shit" referring to my girlfriend. I ended up cutting contact with my abusive narcissistic mother for years.
Its the height of annoyance that people who don't have kids are sacrificed for holidays for those who do have kids. They are not obligated to do this and they still have family that they can spend time with. Lets not punish those who chose not to have kids.
Story 2: Sounds like the mom is insecure that OP was making a pie that everyone actually liked instead of a pie with unfavorable alternative ingredients (just don't a pie next time). And then there's the *30* year old sister who basically threw a *3* year old's tantrum over a snort sound.
Yeah, not OP's fault, the mom and sister need to get their crap together
Agreed! Sounds like “ mommy dearest “ and “ piggy sister “ a *30 year old woman* are just entitled and spoiled 😒
After that stunt, the only gifts mom and sister would ever get from me would be pig themed. I'd also bring two pudding pies to the next gathering (hiding one). Yeah, I'm a petty witch.
Been in a similar situation. Best solution is usually to make a comment that seems like it's trying to be generous while pointing out the terrible choice.
For this situation I'd probably go "OK, so next year I will need to bring at least 3 by the sounds of it. My pie is so much more popular no one managed to eat their fill of it; even my sister ate the whole thing and still looks like she wants more."
Thus shaming everyone and demonstrating that you're just going to double down on it until people act nice, yet pretending to instead just be really considerate and wanting to ensure everyone gets to enjoy themselves.
Hmm … I like these solutions, but, maybe even asking the aunt if you could borrow her kitchen for a “most popular pie-making tutorial” so no gather has to go without that pie … of course, that way risks everyone getting piggy noises made at them.
@@RudesMom My family has to have two pudding pies every year because they go so fast! LOL Yeah, what the mother did and how easily the sister complied in ruining the pie for everyone else is awful and I would also make two pies next time just to ensure they don't pull that crap again! Funny that the mother is so worried about HER weight but is fine shoving an entire pie, she refuses to make, down her daughter's throat before people get a chance to taste it! Sounds like a narcissistic mother who can't handle the praise OP received.
Would have definitely pressed assault charges on the aunt for throwing a hot turkey and causing burns. With the video, an open and shut case. I would get damages and a restraining order.
Exactly. Family fallout, be damned.
AND send her a turkey & cleaning bill! (Salmonella you know) What a waste of a Family Holiday! I hope her son has plans for moving out at 18 !!! Grace should have everyone saying how grateful, happy & peaceful without the witch there. Maybe nephew can move in with OP?❤ 18's not far🎉
It sounds like it was her own kid she burned. The one OP said was 17. She'd be getting a bit more than assault charges I think.
Awnty definitely needed charges pressed. What a rabid idiot. 🤨
Great idea having the foresight to make a backup turkey! 😎👍
@@AncykerAssaulting a Minor is something that any State’s Attorney’s office take extremely serious and that aunt would be looking at serious charges and jail time
Story #3: I always hated it when co-workers would use the “you have no kids” excuse to get time off over me. It was nice when a new HR Director started. She implemented a seniority and job importance based vacation system. My mom sent the director a thank you note for allowing me to have time off over the Holidays for the first time since I had started. Just because someone doesn’t have kids, it doesn’t mean they don’t have a family.
Was looking for a comment like this or post one myself. It is really annoying they assume because you have no kids means you don't spend time with the rest of your family or anything, like once you're an adult the rest of your family just vanishes or something unless you all have kids?
How I see it is this, its upto the workplace to decide who is working over a holiday break, not the workers. Now while the workers can put in for time off, it should also be tracked when they do put in for it, specially over said holidays. That way if they get a worker who never takes time off, is childless and steps in to swap shifts, then out of the blue suddenly wants those days off and puts in for those days to be off, they are automatically approved. Such workplaces however would need to have a deadline of when such holidays are put in for, for obvious reasons. Usually such is done within two weeks prior to the new roster being created.
Now, when it comes to someone that has those days off, such as OP in the story, no other worker has the RIGHT to continue to harass once they are told no. OP in that situation should have immediately just go "Sure, if YOU say so." then marched to the boss and gone "Hey, just so you know, I didnt tell Karen I would trade with them, so sure hope you are not scheduling me on my official day off, because I wont be here since I'll be with family, and will be under the influence. Also, I just know she plans on trying to harass me further about such, so I advise you have a talk to her."
Agreed don't know what difference having kids makes to anything ever, there's plenty of reasons people might want weekends and holidays off aside from kids. Luckily it's not very common where I am in working out rosters and leave
It's like telling management, "they have kids, so you shouldn't promote them since they won't be able to commit enough time to the company."
Two sides of the same f'd up coin.
Nothing Karens do is unexpected anymore but having a back up turkey really is a genius move.
Honestly, on story 2 I expected OP to grab the imposter pie and shove it in the mom's face just to stop her from laughing.
She started the whole mess because no one likes her shitty replacement of an actually delicious pie. No one likes miserable substitutes of the real thing.
Oh good, I wasn't the only one. :D
Me too!
Ditto!
Pretty damn close to what I would have done...
Story 1 : the aunt deserved to get the cops called on her
She'll end up wondering why her son never visits or talks to her. And forget being caref for in her old age! 🤨
Anger management issues much
Story 1 - that Karen is gonna wonder why she gets no visitors later in life.
The aunt destroying the turkey is like a kid destroying a birthday cake cause it's not the flavor that he likes
I'm thinking more she took the deep fried bit as an excuse because she wasn't taking the spotlight by having her family make the turkey.
Story 2: If that were me, I'd do a lot more than oink. I'd be beyond furious. Like, give me that pie so i can throw it at you furious, and the mom laughing? Someone oughta screamed her.
Son watches his mom lose her shit and throw a hot turkey at someone, gets burned in the process, & not only does she not care, lies about her own son. That's enough to never forget as long as you live. She needs professional help.
So does the son. If he took that so calmly, he's clearly accustomed to such outbursts, which hints at abuse.
Story 1. The OP should have pressed charges.
Story 2. If I were the OP I would give both the mother and the sister an invoice for the cost of the ingredients and punitive charges for malicious devouring of the pie.
Story 3. Just because someone doesn't have kids doesn't mean they don't have a family.
Story 4. The OP needs to never let either one of their parents be unsupervised with any children they have no matter what.
I love how people are like "you don't have kids, so you don't deserve holidays off!" but forget that those people are someone's kids. and - they can celebrate however they want, so eff off, Karen.
My mom got tired of making my favorite pie for Thanksgiving so I started making it and she's perfectly fine with that.
I help make the pies and cakes and I even have own special recipe that gets requested by the family which is bacon wrapped weenies with brown sugar on them
My mom used to make Texas Refrigerator pie (which sounds like the pudding pie OP is talking about except its long and rectangular) and pumpkin pies, until I learned how to do the Refrigerator pie. After that, I was always the one that had to make it. Sometimes I change it up by switching the types of nuts used to make the crust or adding chocolate chips into the pudding mix.
Story 4: Anyone who uses religion to control people really upset me because of their holier then thou attitude thinking they’re superior then everyone else.
Just a quick question though, wasn't Jesus Jewish or atleast born into a Jewish*** family? I'm like 89% sure that Christianity and Judaism are like brother and sister almost.
Edit: Changed "Christian family" to "Jewish family". Sorry for the confusion
Yeah Jesus was Jewish. The split happened because while Jews believe Jesus was a prophet he was not the Messiah.
Honestly it's always baffled me that Christianity persisted when the bible still states that Jews are God's people. (Born as a Baptist, tho agnostic now BTW.)
Isn't that the whole point of religion? Threaten people with damnation if they don't obey your rules and promise them joyous salvation if they do obey?
@@rxgeborn1976Jesus was born jewish, and as the other guy stated, Jews saw him as a prophet but not as the son of God and the Messiah.
According to the bible, the Jews still are God’s chosen people, we as Christians are like extended family. It’s a little bit more complicated than that though.
However, according to the Bible the Jews still have a special status, and we, as Christians should treat them as family, seen from a religious standpoint. Hope that clarifies it. If not, feel free to ask, I‘ll do my best to answer. I‘m well versed, but I‘m not a theologian.
OP is a jerk for taking his girlfriend anywhere near his family. "The Thanksgiving from Hell I had to endure". Ummm...Hell for HIM??? The girlfriend was the target and OP just let his father tear into his girlfriend????OP didn't stop him? Any real man would have ripped dad a new one, maybe literally. He's in his late 20's and needs mommy and daddy's permission to marry? Why is the girlfriend with this person?
I knew it, I knew at some point we would get a Karen who threw a turkey
I wonder what will happen during Christmas, maybe a Karen who demands that OP's husband kiss her under the mistletoe, or a Karen who demands OP's presents because she has more kids than them
We've already had the presents thing.
@johnburnside7828 we've had many stories to do with presents 🎁 but they are all wtf is Kevin or Karen thinking haha
Turkey Story: If I were OP, I'd have told Aunt "If you have nothing nice to say, SHUT THE FUCK UP or leave my home and never return!". The moment she threw the still hot, deep-fried Turkey at me, I'd have grabbed my phone and called 911 to have the Police and EMT's sent here...the Police to Arrest Aunt for Assault with a Weapon (throwing the Turkey at me), Destruction of Property (the Turkey) and Assaulting a Minor causing Injury (Cousin getting burned by the hot Turkey juices)... and EMT's to treat Cousin's burns...
Edit: I hope Aunt Karen burned her hands when she picked up the Turkey to throw it at OP!
I’d have posted that turkey video and watched her make internet history.
Yep, on every outlet I could find.
Yeah also throwing a still hot deep fried Turkey at someone while result in her own kid being harmed could have resulted in her being thrown into the back of a police cruiser for assault and child negligence/endangerment/abuse since her son was still considered a minor by the law because he was 17 years old. And burns caused by cooking grease can cause Second to Third Degree Burns to a person’s skin. And if that hot grease came into contact with water. That’s Grease fire right there which would then result in Attempted Arson and Attempted Murder(on multiple counts depending on how many people are inside the structure.)
I dare any of my relatives to behave badly at gatherings because they know I'm the psycho who had belted the ever loving crap outta my aunts, uncles and grandparents before. Never had any outbursts ever again and everyone always behaves when I'm around. I have zero tolerance for badly behaved family members.
And many look up to people like you. Thank you 😊
Story 2: their mother and selfish sister ruined Thanksgiving. Story 3: go full no contact with the non-Christian "Christian" parents. I was raised in a true believer family and I think "churches" can be some of the most destructive forces ever
In my personal experience churches are a den of vipers while Christians that avoid them are some of the nicest people I know.
How could anyone think eating an entire pie by yourself is anything but PIGGISH.
@@MuffinHunterX I agree to many aren't. Yet some of those where they are truly Christian often has some hypocrites hiding in the woodwork.
@@MuffinHunterXThank you. I have long made a distinction between "real Christians" and "Sunday Christians". I trust I don't need to explain.
When you think about it, though, why do people go to school? To get educated, right? So why go to church? As I see it, because you need the guidance to find God. Unfortunately, the institution has gotten so warped that now it's usually the blind leading the blind... although I've been to a couple churches with actual good people. They do exist.
Matthew 18:20 - "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."
God bless you all. 💝
@@lynnw7155 Beelzebub approves.
A few Karens needed a life lesson in how to be human in family groups.
My husband and I had a few things like that. When we met, we moved in with each other in about six weeks. We were both in our mid 30s, both been married previously, and I had 4 kids. When he took me up to meet his parents, it was funny. Mom took him aside and told him to just live with me, not marry me since "all she wants is a dad for the kids" (not so, because they had dads --married twice before and I was on good terms with the ex's because of the kids). His dad got him aside and told him to marry me and make an honest woman of me. They had us sleeping apart, me in his room, him on the couch in the living room. That was Labor Day weekend. We went up for Thanksgiving, having gotten married October 31st (yes, Halloween). He didn't talk to mom but told dad we had gotten married. He had us move into the bedroom together. When he told dad, he asked what he should tell mom since she didn't want us to get married. 'What your mother doesn't know, won't hurt us." We didn't officially tell her until about 5 years later, after dad passed away. But I had written the date and birthdays on the family card on the refrigerator so I knew she knew.
I also pissed my sister-in-law off. She was 20 years my husband's senior. She had tried, and failed, to make mom's yeast rolls over the years. I got there for a Thanksgiving and made the rolls, first time, and they were perfect. She wasn't happy. And after my husband had to have heart surgery to replace a bad aortic valve, I called her to tell her he was okay. It was then that she said they knew he had a heart murmur as a kid. We had NO idea about this and if I could have reached through that phone, I would have strangled her (mom and dad had passed by this time.)
Ahhh, family. Can't live with them, can't put them in the trunk.
Story 1 is a case of “This is my opinion on deep fried turkey. NOBODY else’s opinion matters, no matter that literally every other person loves it and I will act like a spoiled toddler if you don’t agree with ME”
Literally the WORST way to cook a turkey.
@@SMDoktorPepperNot the worst. Boiling or microwaving are probably worse. I agree though that it is not a good way to cook it. I totally respect OPs opinion on the matter though.
Some people and cultures really like deep fried food, others it’s bar-b-q, or slow roasted, or pit roasted, or Dutch oven cooked, or croque pot cooked … everyone has their favorites. Destroying the one you are offered for everyone out of petty jealousy? That is wrong in every culture.
@@nela9994 jokes on you, frying a turkey already destroys it
@@SMDoktorPepperDon't tell my coworker. She and her family deep fry their turkey, and after trying all kinds, deep frying is all she'll have for turkey.
Story 3: I hate it when people use their kids as an excuse to claim higher priority on something everyone wants. Yes, I have kids. We have rescheduled our celebrations of holidays and birthdays because of work/school/etc countless times. "Oh no! We're not eating turkey at the SAME TIME as everyone else! 😭" Cry me a frickin' river, Karen.
Ugh! People who demand holidays and weekends off or for people to work for them just because they have kids really upset me. I have kids and I would never do this. Childless people still have families and still deserve time off. They still deserve to have plans.
I used to volunteer to work holidays when I was younger because I wanted people who have kids or far away family to be able to be with them. When I got a bit older I decided to take my time off over the holidays to spend with my aging family. A few people got REALLY mad about that.
The thing is, I've seen people saying they got similar reactions to that when they had their own kids. If it was truly about the kids then that should be a way to start taking holidays off without drama, but it's not.
It doesn't matter if people are blaming/using turkey, pies, kids, or religion. It's almost never any of those things. If they didn't cook, have kids, or believe in any religion they'd just be using some other excuse to justify being crappy people.
It always pisses me off as a mother when people with kids try to guilt child free coworkers to trade shifts. As I pointed out to one such person, yeah they don't have kids but they are someone's kid and deserve to spend time with whomever they want.
Pie story: The real question is... why did the sister actually agree to eating the whole pie?
Thanksgiving from HELL Story: OP needs to tell his Parents that either they stop trying to dictate who OP Dates and/or Marries or he WILL go Full No Contact with them and they will NEVER meet any Grandchildren OP has...OP does need to tell his Brother that who he Marries is none of their business and the Parents have no say in the matter!
Story 2: 100% the mom must have bribed the sister to scarf down the pie to get rid of it
I'm wondering if the sister had issues with overeating or something and mom took advantage by egging her on to just eat the whole pie... if so she's basically the supervillain of the story...
Bribed her with delicious pie.
Story 2: If the oink fits, then it is justified.
I definitely would have charged my aunt with a salt with the turkey as well as the fact that she destroyed it if that's damaged to property. Also probably call the police and have her charge with assault of a minor and get her ass in jail for that too.
Oh boy, not the Thanksgiving stories. We're really in for it.
Story 4: It's nice that the father and grandmother eventually realized their problems and fixed it (or at least are in the process of it), but man was that a real mess. They really were, at one point, so disproving of OP marrying someone that isn't Christian that they were trying to bribe the GF, followed by bad harassment.
someone who is against Jews are not Christian at all. Christ, His Mother Mary, Joseph and the apostles were jewish and people like those people are hypocrites.
So Jesus's would not have been welcomed at their house?
A father usually doesn't object to who their children are going to marry with, except when he smells a gold digger in his future in laws. The objection usually comes from the mother, for some reasons.
@@ElCid48 And yet it happens all the time. My SO’s parents are pretty religious. Spending time with his mom is uncomfortable when she gets on a jesus rant. Some of his extended family is even MORE religious. His aunt actually told him he needs to “stop dating these Jewish women and find a nice Catholic girl to settle down with.” Her daughter IMMEDIATELY called her out when she said that tho. He doesn’t care, he’s an atheist, we’re engaged, and we’ve agreed that he’ll be the one to tell them we plan to raise our future kids Jewish. That should be interesting.
One Christmas get together I hosted the family dinner for about 50. My bil came through and filled over half his plate with mashed potatoes,about 6 servings. I took his plate and dumped the potatoes back and gave him one scoop and told him come back when everyone got their turn. By the end there was none left mostly because the last few brothers split what was left to enpty the pan.
With families like the ones in these stories, I'd refuse to spend Thanksgiving or Christmas with them for the sake of my mental health...
That mother and father from the last story... I don't think I would've forgiven them that easily.
Story 1: Sounds like Karen committed aggravated battery, battery, and child endangerment or possibly even child abuse.
Story 2: I thought OP was going to throw the mom's pie. Didn't expect an oink, lol.
Story 4: OP should have said he broke up with his GF because he "found someone else that's Christian." Then when his parents asked for her name he should have said, "His name is Steve." If they were that upset about a Jewish girl they might actually explode from that. 😂
The sister that ate the pie....I would follow up by buying her a weight watchers membership, and mail her diet products for the next year
I'd set her up for a visit from the 7th Day Adventists too. Little on Earth is more irritating than that! 😂
That's a lot of money to spend on someone who wasn't even the main problem. Like yeah, the sister deserves some heat, but the mom was the one who told her to do it because she was a big, petty bitch and for some reason no one told *her* off??
Story 1: the fact that the sister was the only one that OP said anything to is leaving me feeling like it wasn’t enough, the mom deserved some words too for what she did and how she acted. OP took it easy on them tbh.
Story 4: dad or not i’m leaving that house in cuffs cause he’s not gona get away woth doing that shit.
Regarding story 4: It sounds like OP's girlfriend would have done that herself... and he knew it. When OP said his dad had the GF in tow (not toe - lol!), I pictured him grabbing her by the arm and physically dragging her in. But it seems she followed him in willingly, because women like that don't put up with being manhandled.
If I had an entitled mum who destroyed a pie/dessert I had made while hers remained on the table. I would have calmly indicated it by picking it up. “Is this your dessert? Is it really nice? THEN HAVE SOME!” The yell combined with slamming it in her face.n
My actual mother (whom I repeatedly thank for bringing me up to appreciate things in life and not let me be entitled) is awesome. She makes desserts that are delicious. She doesn’t always have dessert, but appreciates that her guests and I like desserts and that we appreciate how good she is at cooking them.
When OP was forewarning us in advance this is exactly what I thought was gonna happen. I'm not sure that insulting the sister was justified. I feel like there is more going on there, like the sister having an overeating disorder and the mom exploiting it to get rid of the pie.
Story 1 - I admit I'm something of a finicky eater, but I can't imagine making a huge mess and ruining everyone else's Thanksgiving just because I wasn't crazy about the food. That woman is nuts! By the way, deep-fried turkey was a new dish to me a few years ago, and I found it quite tasty,
Story 2 - I normally don't condone fat-shaming, but OP was not wrong in this case. If someone hogs a whole pie (no pun intended), then I say they're fair game.
We've had deep fried turkey once for a Christmas family reunion. It sounds like it would be gross but i agree with the rest of the family, its really good. I think part of the karen's problem is that it is a non traditional method that turned out better than hers.
Deep fried turkey story: I wonder if Aunt Karen thinks her little temper tantrum is going to get her chosen to do Thanksgiving in the future?
Pudding pie story: And no one else actually told the sister not to take off with the entire pie? But mom is even worse.
Family story: Good grief! While religion can and does play a role in many relationships, the only people whose business it actually is, is the couple's.
People who used temper tantrums to get what they want often think this will work like it does with kids, but really it just makes people think twice.
Story 2: Sometimes you have to call a pig what it is, especially since *everyone* knew that pie wasn't made just for her. The ones defending her are no better than her. I hope the aunt learns from this and doesn't invite the mom and sister next year or at least has a plan in place if they show up anyway.
And I wouldn’t talk to my mom or sister but that’s me. The sister at her age should know better,
The 30 year old sister should probably know better, but … having been basically given permission to indulge, and then being called out on it? Not the most adult thing on either side, but … unfortunately accurate, which is probably why such a big reaction. The mom who set it up? She’s the real villain.
@@nela9994 The sister still chose to eat the pie.
@@addieleo6382 hey, it was really good pie!
The pie story makes me think of a dessert my mom used to make. A few years ago, one of my sisters made it for a family gathering, but she substituted Cool Whip for the whipped cream. It tasted *horrible.*
I like cool whip, but it is not whipped cream. It is, in fact, whipped vegetable oil. It works fine as a topping on some stuff, but I wouldn't use it in a pie... your sister is weird 😅
Story 3 - Wow. So mom decides she should diet and instead makes her daughter eat the bad stuff? And in the worst way possible to boot, on Thanksgiving when most diets don't apply anyway? Every doctor I've known says that it's OK to cheat one day out of the year and not to worry about what you are eating for Thanksgiving dinner, as long as you are good the other days. It's also very likely that the daughter was already having troubles keeping to a prescribed diet like her mom, and that's why she was so sensitive to the insult. That Karen truly is the worst of the worst.
Ahh … not quite, the mom had the sister horde the good one, so the only one left was mom’s failed experiment. In a way, a compliment to how good the good one was, just … the wrong way to go about it.
I mean, it does make a twisted sort of sense. If the sister puts on pounds, the mom looks even better by comparison! (I do NOT condone this thought process or method - just speaking it aloud.)
What really raises my bile is the utter disrespect for both her offspring - her own pride over the sister's health, and over the son's happiness. Especially since she flat-out offered to let someone else make that pie if they wanted.
And no, I don't think oinking at the sister was out of line. She didn't have to agree to eat that pie!
@@RedT...TheOriginal.NotANumber much less waste the rest of t by throwing it, as opposed to letting anyone else even have a taste …
Hey Fluff; I had a similar kind of Thanksgiving event where someone dumped the Turkey onto the floor. It was my first Thanksgiving in my newly purchased home. My first house I owned. Well I wanted it to be special so I invited all of my near by relatives, including my Aunt (once removed/divorced) mainly because of my cousins. She's their Mom, but my Uncle divorced her due to her violent outbursts/fighting and alcoholism. So that Thanksgiving I marinated and then smoked A 25 lb. turkey and made a 23 lb. stuffed ham. I invited my 12 adult relatives and their kids. I had 3 college degrees, and an excellent job paying me with stock options and a lucrative six figure salary. Earlier that year, I was responsible for getting my company a 15 year contract worth in the upper tens of millions range, and I received a hefty commission, and bonus. It allowed me to pay cash for my 4 bedroom/2.5 bath/ 2 car garage home on 2 acres of waterfront property. So I really wanted to show it off since I owned it completely.
Anyway, as I said earlier, everyone has arrived except my Aunt, and she shows up about 30 mins late, and she's drunk. My cousin goes over to talk to her, and tell her to not cause drama, and to lay off the alcohol to boot. Well, things go well for the last couple of hours the turkey and ham needed to finish cooking, and another twenty minutes to set all the food out in a buffet style table with me at the end carving the turkey and ham. My DA (drunkard aunt) got her plate and wanted the thigh of the turkey. I let her know that smoking a turkey means that the meat will not look the same as one roasted in an oven or deep fried. She blows me off and collected her food and stay hard a little to her seat. Well, we had a toast, and I spoke thanking everyone to my home, and to enjoy dinner. My father started saying the blessing, and about halfway through it, my Aunt starts pitching a drunken fit. How dare I serve her raw/under cooked turkey. That I'm trying to poison/kill her, and that I always do something mean and spiteful to her because she refused to let my Uncle destroy her life and happier, blah, blah, blah. She always finds something to complain about and cause a scene whenever she's drunk. FYI, smoked meat, especially poultry and fresh hams tend to be a bit pinkish in color when fully cooked. Anyway, we're all trying to tell her that it's fine while she continues her drunken rant. When my other cousin takes a piece and eats it to show its fine, she flips out and grabs a drumstick and throws it across the room while saying she's going to dump this gross excuse of turkey and ham while reaching for the platters of meat. Just then, my Mom (all 5' of her), bless her, grabs my aunt's hands, and screams at her to stop it, to shut her mouth and sit down or else. Of course, my Aunt demands, "or else what, like you could do anything to me?" Then, just like that my tiny dynamo of a mother snatched her by the hair, drug her away from the table, then put her into a chicken wing arm lock, and marched her out of the house before pushing her to flop face first onto my lawn. My Mom then locked the door, rejoined us, and asked my father to start the blessing over, which he did. Afterwards, someone commented on how my mom handled my Aunt, and my two cousins, her kids, said "yeah, that's why our Mom is terrified of Aunt Jenny, she's always has been." We all roared with laughter because my Mom was the oldest, and my Aunt was 5' 11", and weighed a good 60 lbs. more than my mother. So my new home was christened with a smoked Turkey Drumstick, and after sitting on my front porch for two hours sobering up, my Mom went and spoke with my Aunt, let her come back inside, and eat dinner while everyone else watched football and talked. She ended up having a decent time once she layed off the alcohol and sobered up. Still, thanks mom for saving my first Today at my homd, and I love and miss you every day, RIP.
I'm so glad to hear that the dad and grandmother were able to reevaluate their lives and attitudes. Hopefully it sticks after the bad news.
On Story 2, I was fully expecting the “villain” move to be OP throwing the mom’s pie in the trash or destroying it some way- because that’s what I would have done 😅
I once had a dinner of 16 people and no working oven (we had 2 ovens and neither worked.) Deep fry 1 and roasted one on the grill!!! We got everything done. Used a door as a exrta part of the table and most of us sat in the hot tub on the water while crazy was going on in the house. I think we had 3 crockpots going and every pot in the house (restaurant size pots)
Story 1 - Throwing a 12+ pound turkey at someone, that's hot enough to cause noticeable physical burns on people (including a minor that's your own child), is almost assault with a deadly weapon, AND a second charge on a minor, and child abuse charges.
Extensive burns are no joke. You don't have skin for looks...it keeps infections at bay that can be painfully fatal.
Story 1: That's battery. Someone was burned, actually injured. Potentially felony battery.
I had to scroll way too far to find a comment saying this. Still none that seem to remember the other cousins had left the room, the only ones in there were OP, Karen, and cousin. As in the 17 years old cousin... So the cousin that got burnt was a minor. Child endangerment, possibly child abuse.
Last story: I knew it would end up with "seeing the grandkids" being the thing that kept her in line.
Story 2: am I the only one who wants that pie recipe?
Story 4: yet another example of how religion poisons people. I'm glad OP and his wife are doing well, but yes, they'd better keep their guard up once they have a child.
As much as I'd like to blame religion for stuff like this, religion isn't the reason. It's almost never the reason. Religion is the excuse. It's easy to tell this is the case as most people who are like this don't even follow their own religion. They just use it as a shield when called out for being awful people.
A few years ago my wife & her friend wanted to deep fry a Turkey, we had a large outdoor fryer,, once the oil was hot they tried to lower the turkey into the fryer the oil over flowed the pot (they put in to much oil), they ended up setting the Lawn on Fire,, & yes it involved a Fire extinguisher,, best thanksgiving ever,,🦃🦃🦃
see, THAT sounds fun, that's a story that'll be passed down for generations, your gonna tell your grandkids that story down the line & they're gonna WISH they'd been there, & they're gonna wanna deep fry a turkey just because of that story
@@pokegirl1799 it took me a couple of years to get the lawn to grow back,,lol
Story 3: What really brings my piss to a boil, is that the whiners who go on about family time with kids daily to understand that the person without their own kids still has a family and a mother. What about said mom being able to spend time with her "kids"? I always hated this argument.
In America, you are socially obligated to disown your children on their 18th birthday.
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Thank you for being decent people. I can actually enjoy scrolling through the comment section on Fluff's videos, because yall aren't the sort of toxic trash-talkers found elsewhere on YT.
No doubt part of that is Fluff's positive vibes echoing through his viewers, but yall CHOOSE to be civil and supportive here. In this day and age, that's very noteworthy. Thank you for that.
It's always fun to see stories where parents just seem to lose the ability to think and realize that just because a person doesn't have children that doesn't mean they don't have any family or loved ones to spend time with.
I grew up in Australia and so I’ve never celebrated or experienced “thanksgiving”, but I can honestly say that I have never been more relieved than when I heard the words - “back-up turkey”.
Up hearing those words I experienced a physical reaction. A wave of relief washed over me and through my body.
What wonderful words - back-up turkey 🤣
Honestly, I had family members say to me ‘break up with that guy you’re dating and marry a woman’ some of my family are harassing me because I am gay and they don’t accept it, my family are Jewish but I used to be but I am an atheist now.
Honestly the bullshit I hear from them is ludicrous, they say me being gay has corrupted me and made me give up my faith.
I started dating my wife when I was 19 and she was 20. When my parents found out we were dating they asked to talk with my wife's mom to "decide if we should be allowed to date". We were like uh no, we're grown adults and we will date who we want. Even my wife's mom laughed when we told her why they wanted to talk to her.
Story 1 - That woman needs charges pressed for assaulting OP with a deadly weapon (the hot juices can permanently scar a person for life, you do NOT f with deep frying oils)
I have a type of PTSD. If a stranger touches me, especially from behind, and ESPECIALLY agressively. I just have a black out and i will most absolutely defend myself until i either snap out of it or someone else does who knows how to deal with PTSD people. Moral of the story = NEVER touch strangers. ESPECIALLY NOT IN AN AGRESSIVE WAY!!!!! EDIT : It's always funny how most Christians actually act the complete opposite of how they should act according to their god.
The ending of Story #4 reminds me of how I had “holy wars” with my family for a while! Backstory: My parents (Mom was raised Presbyterian, Dad was raised Episcopalian) sent me and my sister to Episcopal Sunday school as kids (Church of the Ascension-think “Catholic Lite”), and I grew up LOATHING Sundays because even as a kid Christianity disagreed with me! Every week I’d get into trouble for either objecting to something in the lesson or asking questions that couldn’t be answered just by quoting Scripture. I was finally able to “quituate” Sunday school at 14, and I left Christianity altogether at the same time. I discovered Wicca in college, and I’ve been following the Eclectic tradition ever since.
It was when I “came out of the broom closet” to my parents that things got ugly. My mom, who had said I could choose whichever religion I wanted, hit the roof and refused to come down. When my husband and I got engaged and said we were having a Wiccan handfasting ceremony Mom even tried to prevent us from doing so, saying that she would only accept a Christian ceremony. Thank the gods for the Unitarian Universalist minister who took our side, and other than some pearl-clutching and eye-rolling from her whenever the Goddess and the God were mentioned, our wedding went off with no problems (our best man, who was my husband’s best friend and sided with us as well, was keeping an eye on her to make sure she wouldn’t flip out and ruin things).
The next year my paternal grandfather died, and our religious beliefs became an issue again. We grandchildren were supposed to read eulogies, and the morning of the service my grandmother cornered me, insisted on pre-checking my eulogy “to make sure I didn’t mention the Goddess” and hit me with the order that we ALL had to receive Communion (church memorial service). I objected on the grounds that infant baptism was invalid because I hadn’t given my permission and I wasn’t a Christian regardless. She then made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: Either fake Christianity and take communion with the family, or I could consider myself disowned. (Rock, meet Hard Place!) So I took communion, but in hindsight I should’ve crossed my arms at the altar at the last second just to see if anybody would dare to object in public. At the time, I was just furious and terrified at the same time.
The story has a happy ending, though-my parents came around when our older daughter was born and not only came to her Wiccan naming ceremony, but they even hosted our younger daughter’s naming ceremony nearly five years later! My paternal grandmother (who’s still steaming along at the ripe old age of 103 and doesn’t miss a thing!) has come around as well, but I’m praying she doesn’t try to sneak the communion requirement into _her_ memorial service as well!
Pie Story: I have never understood why people find it necessary to make "diet" versions of holiday food. One day isn't going to do more than prevent any weight loss _that week,_ and it's always possible to take just a small piece or even - gasp - refuse it completely.
Story 2. I was really hoping op would've taken the pie from her sister and said to her mom "hey I know a way no else will be able to eat this pie" and then threw it in her mom's face cuz ultimately that whole immature situation was the moms fault. That fact that she basically ruined something that she knew her daughter put so much work into is just horrible as a parent.
I'm thankful for always having a wonderful Thanksgiving with my immediate family! I feel sad for the BS that some family's endure for the holiday season!
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Honestly, I'd never deep fry a turkey, but thats not an excuse to throw a boiling hot turkey at someone
Dang she left her kid there? I guess he knows who is family now, and who isn't. Poor kid.
What I've learned from this video: I'm glad to live in a country, where Thanksgiving isn't really celebrated much ;)
Pudding pie: And sis suddenly became this little 3 year old eating the pie as opposed to acting like the 30 year old adult she's supposed to be because "mommy said so?"
Scheduling story: And you KNOW that I don't have plans, how? Not obligated to do your work bidding in any way, shape, or form
Story 2: I had the image of pie all over the sisters face and couldn't help laughing. 😂
Stories like #4 make me appreciate my & my husband's families, cuz it could have gone SO sideways. I was raised Catholic, he was raised Lutheran & Mormon. He is also part Apache. most of the kids are Wiccan. We total mesh it all together & really confuse most non-family...like the JW who came to the door. Bible next to Book of Mormon under an altar with sage on it & a Medalia on the wall with a crucifix
Nice try, but we know cats don't get married. Silly kitty.
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No but seriously now, your family sounds awesome.
Story 1: My Aunt would be going to jail that day, if it was me. I really hope her son greatly distanced himself from her after she tried to throw him under the bus to cover her own ass.
Story 2: Mom is the real culprit here. I'm surprised OP didn't rip into her for her obvious role as the mastermind behind ruining his superior pie.
Story 3: You being a mom does not give you cart blanche to other people's vacation time.
Story 4: Whooooo doggy... I imagine that a lot of blatantly anti-semetic slurs where getting lobbed at the girlfriend, from the dad. OP is a better person than me. The first time my parents act like that toward my serious girlfriend, I would tell them to eff off and go NC.
Story 1; I've heard that deep fried turkey is delicious. One day I'll give trying making one.
I used to work at Wally World way back when we cut meat. One Thanksgiving an old lady came in and demanded I cut the frozen turkey in half with the band saw. We did not cut poultry and we did not cut frozen. She also only wanted to buy half. When I told her we could not do that, she said she had no friends and couldn't use the whole bird. I was not going to get fired and again said no. She then took the 12 pound turkey and threw it at me and stormed out. Not the first time she did this, so I managed to dodge. Wonder why nobody wanted to come to her place for dinner. Reported it, but management was too busy to worry about it.
You could have called the police, that's assault. Possibly aggravated assault.
@Ancyker true, but I needed my job, and since she moved very well for an old witch and we had a very skeptical staff, I couldn't catch her or get someone to detain her. She actually never came by the meat department when I was working until about 3 years later. Statute had passed. At least since I did most of the morning markdowns, she almost never got good deals until I got deployed.
Story three..... So just because OP isn't married or has kids, he has no life to bother with!? My life's story too! Glad to be long retired now. No more workplace drama. 😎👍
Plus what normal 30 yr old woman agrees to sit down and eat a whole freaking pie?!
Right?? Well, Mom told me to. . . As a mother (who would never say something like that) I would expect my kids to all say mom, are you ok? Then wtf?? You don't always Have to do what someone tells you to do even if they did give birth to you however many years ago.
A mama's girl
#3 - Just because you had children, that doesn't give you a free pass to be a crappy co-worker and insist that any and all holidays AND weekends are for time off with your family. Singles or couples without children still actually DO have families and like to spend time with them (usually), whether the parent worker likes that or not. Tough noogies - you chose to have kids, deal with it!
My dad made a deep fried turkey for Thanksgiving this year. Everyone liked it.
The turkey story reminded me of an episode of Kitchen Nightmare, where an owner choked on a burger to make it out like her husband's was better.
Story 2: I hate it when someone says, “It won’t taste any different”. I’m extremely picky, plus I can’t stand certain textures. Also, I’ve had experiences where I’ve been lied to about food. Admittedly, I wasn’t consistently encouraged to try different food growing up (doesn’t help that I grew up with divorced parents).
The pie one, who takes a whole pie? That is so wrong, and she knew she was wrong. And the mom was no better. I don't blame the op for oinking, that's tamer than what I would say as a baker.
Both are poster children for sheer unadulterated entitlement. 🤨
THIS THANKSGIVING:
My roommate is a 70-year old... Karenish... lady. This year, I intended to spend Thanksgiving with a friend's family. Roommate was going to her family nearby. Early on Thanksgiving morning, my roommate was upset because her daughter had called (they don't get long), so she angrily dragged me to a nearby casino. I don't gamble. Usually I just try to keep the peace. S he also budgets specific amounts for gambling and doesn't go over, so that's not the issue. But she held me there late, and I ended up late to my friends. Okay. I went to my friends, began to have Thanksgiving - had to take some time off to go to my care client and swap his meds - returned for thanksgiving, and then got a litany of texts from my roommate. "When are you coming home?' "ETA?" "I need you home to unload groceries from the car." :Why aren't you home?" "Don't be selfish."
SO ANYWAY, I had thanksgiving, and eventually went home. There was my roommate, upset and wailing "I HAVE NO FAMILY! NOBODY LOVES ME!" It turns out that when she went to HER family's for Thanksgiving, she got into a fight with her niece ten minutes in and then stormed out. Her family does not hate her. Her sister-in-law even came by the next day to tell her not to be melodramatic. But yes, she was mad at me. Somehow it was my fault.
THE VERY NEXT DAY, I woke up on friday and bam. Roommate angrily says to go back to the casino and drags me there. Time passes, and I realize that I need to be home or I will be late to work. I point this out to her. She promptly gets angry and tells me that I am being extremely selfish for needing to get to my paying job on time.
"Oh, it's the END OF THE WORLD if you are five minutes late to work!"
"For me, it might be."
"It's not like you're on the clock, anyway!"
"Actually yes, the software that clocks me in is exact down to the second and records location."
"Don't be selfish! You're always putting pressure on me!"
"I don't want to be late to work because someone was gambling, the day after gambling on Thanksgiving."
That was the wrong thing to say. She was angry.
AND THEN SATURDAY.
Saturday, I help my care client, and then afterward spend a couple of hours with an editor who is working with me on releasing a short story compilation. We work on fonts and formatting and such, and I return home at 6:30PM. Not very late.
Roommate: "TELL THE TRUTH! Are you moving in with ((editor))? Because you're there all the time!"
Me: "Because we are working on a project. For work."
Roommate: "He's probably just gay and in love with you."
And then my roommate was angry at someone else and yelled about someone else, and I had some sort of weird episode where I got dizzy and my left arm tingled. I hope it wasn't a cardiac incident?
So anyway, that was my Thanksgiving this year. The old lady who pays 1/3 of the rent was not in a good mood.
CHILDHOOD THANKSGIVING MEMORIES:
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One Thanksgiving was when I was a kid, and my sister and I were arguing like little kids do. So we were yelling at each other and she shouted at me, “You ruined thanksgiving!” So of course, being a little kid, I started crying and said, “I RUINED THANKSGIVING!” But I did that right when there was a lull in conversation, so as far as everybody else was concerned it was a nice and normal, festive thanksgiving when suddenly this kid shouts, “I RUINED THANKSGIVING!”
So that was our family joke for years. Like, every thanksgiving someone would say to me, “YOU RUINED THANKSGIVING!”
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On another thanksgiving when my job was to refill everyone’s drinks. And they kept drinking all their water really fast, so I was constantly refilling glasses without a chance to sit down and eat. Eventually family started laughing and drinking fast on purpose because it was funny. By the time it slowed down and I sat down, everyone else was ready for dessert and they were mad at me for not being done with dinner yet, so I didn’t get to finish my plate.
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It occurs to me that nearly all my thanksgiving stories sound like Roald Dahl wrote them.
On another year I sat with my aunt on one side of me and my sister on the other. My aunt wouldn’t let me take any food when the platters came by because “Don’t be a greedy pig! Wait until everybody else is served before taking your own.” But then my sister said, “stop being a martyr and take some food! You’re ruining everything.” And neither one acknowledged what the other was saying.
I learned at an early age to hate all of the big holidays, weddings, graduations, family reunions and virtually any other event that seems to require "family togetherness". Starting at about age 10, when unable to avoid them, I did the bare minimum necessary to keep the vultures off my back and made my escape either to my room or out into the night. My favorite holidays are Arbor Day and National Dairy Week.
Deep fried turkey is delish!
The whole damn pie wtf?
Nothin' like parents deciding what their grown children are gonna do-no just no
I threw her diet pie on top of the Mom, You can make the delicious pie but you don't have to eat it!!!
Also I hope both of them got banned from the aunt's house for doing that stunt.
For the last story I heard this one on Reddit Brew. If Jesus Christ heard what Dad said about the girlfriend now wife he would’ve torn him a new one. Jesus would’ve also taken offense to the antisemitism
It's also funny how so many so called "Christians" seem to forget Jesus was Jewish. They'll also talk shit on Muslim's "heathen god" evidentially unaware they believe in and worship the same god.
@@Ancyker I came here to say the same thing. Well said!
@@Ancyker Allah is God in Arabic.
Story 1, next year everyone vote to have entitled aunt Karen to host Thanksgiving then nobody bothers to show up. That should teach her some manners.
story #3. I wonder if OP had parents? If so, all he should have said was, 'I'm spending Thanksgiving as the son/daughter with MY PARENTS'.
My brother had diarrhea and I slept over at my parent's house where he was and I guess I caught the diarrhea so that's what I had to enjoy through Thanksgiving. As well as Friday and Saturday as I went on a road trip with my sister-in-law niece to do some Christmas shopping in our bigger town that's 4 hours away from us. We had to stay in the hotel to make sure we didn't hit any deer at night. I went and checked us in and I'm not sure but I think I saw bed bug droppings underneath my bed so I went to the front desk and asked if they could have somebody come in and check it. The front desk woman didn't know shit, and because I prepaid it through a third party they won't change your room so we had to sleep in the room. I'm praying that I'm not getting any bed bugs in my house but I'm taking all the precautions I can.
Story 2: Is your sister 3 or 30? Does she always do everything that mommy tells her to do?
They both have a lot of growing up to do, and they also need to be held responsible for their individual actions resulting from their tantrums. No contact would be a start, after pressing charges for assault for the turkey incident. You and your cousin could have been seriously burned.
I've heard the pudding pie story before, it's still HILARIOUS! If mum didn't want anyone to make the pie, she shouldn't have told the family, (literally the whole family) that they could make it themselves! Shame on little piggy! The audacity! 😂😂😂
Story One: Karens and Thankgiving have a deep significant relationship--you're always thankful they're gone.
Story #1, I'd have pressed assault charges.
OP of story two: I'm not the hero of this story.
Me: The HELL you ain't! That was brilliant! Do it again!
Story 2: i know what op means by pudding pie being significantly better, my family makes 2 every year because of how much i like them (its a small celebration, im just fat) but who seriously grabs the only one and eats most of it
*Story 4-* my hubby and I met online too, but his parents hated _everything_ about me! 😣 They never thought I was good enough for him, and I was always afraid to be around them! They always said bad stuff about me and always gave me dirty looks. The night before the wedding, his dad even tried to talk my hubby out of marrying me!!!
My hubby and I have been married for 6 incredible years, but it took me at least 4 years to get use to his parents. 😮💨
After we got married, for some reason, his parents thought I was great! (Like a light switch!) And they didn’t know why I was nervous around them. 🤨
Probably shifted gears because they accepted there was nothing they could do about it now and they didn't want to risk being prevented from seeing any of your potential children or something.
@@Ancyker I’m actually their favorite daughter-in-law now 🤭 lol
Lol people out here fighting to host Thanksgiving party?
Story 4 reminds me a lot of my mother's reaction to my first long term girlfriend. She literally banned her from the house despite never meeting her on account of her being bisexual. She used to regularly send me text messages saying things like "you don't have to accept shit" referring to my girlfriend.
I ended up cutting contact with my abusive narcissistic mother for years.
Introduce The Aunt To The Hot Oil,ASAP.
Its the height of annoyance that people who don't have kids are sacrificed for holidays for those who do have kids. They are not obligated to do this and they still have family that they can spend time with. Lets not punish those who chose not to have kids.
Story 4 should have ended with a detour to Las Vegas and a Lesbian Elvis ministers Wedding Chappell lol