Would you attend a family gathering if you had to sign a contract in order to get in? It's an interesting question, as u/ziolczykdaniel posed to the internet in the aftermath of a family Thanksgiving debacle. If you agree to host a Thanksgiving meal , you get to set the rules, right? You tell your guests when dinner will be. You can ask a few people to bring side dishes or extra chairs. You may even pull a relative to the side and request that they not start any drama with Grandpa this year, be…

This family had the strangest Thanksgiving food ever, thanks to one sister's extremely creative cooking. I assure you, you've probably never thought of making any of the foods this woman made for her family to eat. Thinking outside the box is what makes a lot of chefs really brilliant at what they do. Next, read about the funniest ways that workplaces hide their issues from customers, like one clever boss who “ invented a fake employee that he would blame all problems on .”

Maybe we should just take off until the new year.

Shopping for the Holidays often brings out the worst in people. This could not be more apparent than on Black Friday. Hopefully, we all survived this tumultuous day by staying home and doing all our holiday shopping online this year like a sane person. However, who can't resist hearing about the crazies who still run amok in retail stores the day after Thanksgiving as if their lives depended on that 40% discount? Here , we have a retail worker who was unfortunately scheduled at the start of Bla…

Retail workers of the world are in for a crazy day each and every Black Friday . Just in case they wanted to try and escape that day, many employers refuse to let their employees take that day off. It's so important to the sales of the stores that they need all hands on deck. They know that as soon as they open their doors to the customers, there will be a wave of people rushing to get their hands on the newest tech, the hottest clothes, or whichever toy is THE holiday toy for kids (in previous…

It's never fun when you have a guest who acts like she's the host. It takes a particular kind of human being to have that mentality during a family gathering, but if there's any event that attracts this type of personality, it's most certainly Thanksgiving. Here , we have an entitled sister-in-law who insisted on making a number of Thanksgiving dishes despite the fact that the Redditor expressed a desire to take the lead, as she was the host after all. On top of this tension going into the day,…

Cook for yourself, then!

Happy Turkey Day —I hope you're already stuffing your face with turkey and mashed potatoes! No matter what food you're serving up on Thanksgiving Day , the important thing is who you're sharing it with. Maybe you're the one who cooks, and dozens of relatives show up to bring side dishes, share family news, and watch the football game. Or maybe you're the one going to a parent or aunt or uncle's home, bringing a side dish of your own and joining your cousins in a sports game outside. Some folks…

This Thanksgiving, make sure your relatives know who's boss. This is not the time of year to let people walk all over you, so if you have to indulge entitled family members who have been nothing but unfriendly to you, you might as well show them that you are not to be messed with anymore. Here , we have a woman who used to be friends with her sister-in-law long before she even dated her future husband. However, once that relationship began, the sister-in-law was never able to give the Redditor…

For many of us, next week, we will be sitting around a large dinner table exchanging passive-aggressive remarks with family members before the tryptophan makes us all fall asleep before 9:00 pm. This is, of course, the most ideal scenario for Thanksgiving. We all know that in practice, something always goes wrong. These wrong outcomes can range from family members bickering over how to get all the dishes prepared and cooked in time to siblings letting old wounds out in the open. Anything can ha…

It will be a delicious Thanksgiving dinner, but at what cost??

Are you even a real family if you DON'T have at least one argument during Thanksgiving dinner?

No one dreams of clocking in while everyone else is home savoring pumpkin pie and watching holiday classics. Working on Thanksgiving feels like a necessary evil for those in essential roles, but even then, the thought of missing out on the wholesome chaos of a family gathering is hard to pass up. So, when this employee was finally lucky enough to snag her first holiday off, it was like making it out of the new hire phase and into the big leagues. She was thrilled to finally spend the holidays w…

Hosting family events is no small thing. Letting people into your intimate space who you have a close and (possibly) troubled history with, resulting from problematic relationship dynamics, presents all sorts of problems. It's basically like opening a Pandora's box of sorts of complex family trauma. Usually, the problematic ones will be rogue cousins or uncles who you just don't see eye to eye with, but occasionally, it will be your own problematic parents. This woman found herself at a breakin…

Hosting events is a lot of work; there's a house to be cleaned, food to be prepped, and a lot of general setup that needs to be taken care of. When it's family, it's even more so to do—it's probably a good idea to hide the things your family won't approve of and save yourself the judgment. Family hosting schedules help to ease the burden of any one person having to host too often, and the reality is that for a member of the family to drop from hosting duties places a disproportionate amount of…

As Thanksgiving approaches, countless family members across the country are clenching their jaws and growing more and more tense about the logistical and social pressures of impending family gatherings. Here, we have a 38-year-old woman who has been hosting Thanksgiving dinner for her 20-person extended family every year for the majority of the last decade. She used to enjoy these hosting responsibilities, but as time went on, she became resentful of the complete lack of support she received fr…