Worst Thanksgiving?

**MakersTeleMark** · 11-29-2015, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

And let's get our microbiology straight--hep A=virus, in this case from oysters.

Last year I was traveling in a pretty remote area of Mexico known for its oysters. Read horror stories on the pure hell that is Hep A. Really nasty. Promised myself I would remember them and resist the seductive temptation. Could not. I caved in and slurped away and got lucky. But I did learn how nasty that virus is. God speed on the recovery.

**booner** · 11-29-2015, 04:49 PM

Had a Thanksgiving at a gf's parents house where it was the second time we'd met.

I DESTROYED their toilet. It was beyond clogged...Definitely set some sort of record.

She couldn't find the plunger so we had to ask them for it. Slightly awkward.

**NW_SKIER** · 11-29-2015, 04:50 PM

Came down with mono about two weeks ago. Yeah yeah, I've heard all the jokes already about questionable women. This shit's pretty much sucking the life out of me. Worst turkey day ever with the fever, headaches, and sore throat. Hoping to pull through soon as I am not enjoying this at all.

**iceman** · 11-29-2015, 04:59 PM

1984 I had an awesome Thanksgiving on Long Island with my gf at her family's house, which included a bj before dinner in a powder room about 20 feet from the kitchen (but around a corner) where everyone was hanging out. The next day Doug Flutie threw the Hail Mary, I screamed and yelled, won some money and drank her dad's good booze. The next day we took her Dad's canary yellow Mercedes 300D turbo diesel into the city and made every single light from 120th St. down to the Battery. We weren't going to the Battery but we had to keep riding the wave. Good weekend.

**TBS** · 11-29-2015, 04:59 PM

We need an update from MMP

**iceman** · 11-29-2015, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by TBS

We need an update from MMP

He's still in the garage, his phone died, but the charger's in the house.

**highangle** · 11-29-2015, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

no hospitalization for usual case of hep A. She ate herself a nice turkey dinner, just didn't cook it. (She's a hell of a nurse to--she had to give our 6 year old kid a gamma globulin shot and he never even woke up.) And let's get our microbiology straight--hep A=virus, in this case from oysters. Undercooked meat generally enteric bacteria, most commonly E coli or salmonella. New liver not required. And besides I only buy free range organic turkeys that are raised individually by the farmer's kids, eat at his kitchen table, and are sterilely slaughtered and cleaned by a veterinarian so no chance of getting sick.

Yeah, but is it local?

**beaterdit** · 11-29-2015, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by Crock

2004
I was 17, and got invited to Thanksgiving dinner with my girlfriend's family. I had met her mom and dad, but no one else so this dinner would mean meeting the whole family for the first time. We'd only been dating a few months, so I was really uncomfortable going in, but being young and happy to have someone touching my wee-wee frequently, I agreed to go.

We show up for dinner and there are 30+ people there. I get introduced to, and immediately forget the names of, everyone there. The booze starts flowing and her family gets trashed in a hurry. I suffer through small talk with her aunts/uncles, and then dinner is served. About 20 minutes into the meal my girlfriend's mother gets into an argument with her grandma. The argument escalates, my girlfriend tries to intervene which only makes things worse. A scuffle ensues between the women, other people jump in and in the process of breaking it up most of the food is spilled on the floor/table.

My girlfriend grabs my hand, screams "Fuck all of you, we're leaving!" and I muttered an awkward "Nice to meet you all..." on the way out the door. Got a bj later, so it wasn't all bad.

This is the best, not the worst. Awesome though!

Unlike the rest of the holidays, I actually like thanksgiving, in spite of what it represents. I usually volunteer to work christmas, and new years eve too anymore, so I can feast and drink with friends on turkey day. Well this year I couldn't get out of it and ended up working. I'm an ICU nurse and we had a potluck with turkey and all the fixins and it was a pretty good night on the unit. We had tons of food so we invited the family members and the couple armed guards for the prisoner on the unit to partake as well.

I did come away with a story of the worst thanksgiving ever though. Somewhere in SE Wyoming, a 21 year old girl with a severe wheat allergy accidentally got served something with wheat in it. She went into full on anaphylactic shock and the local ER was pretty overwhelmed. They intubated her but she threw up and aspirated in the process. Thankfully she got an Epi pen on the way or it could have been worse. She was really unstable in the ER over there when they called us and our attending told them to get her on a continuous Epinephrine drip right away. After that she was stable enough to fly but the heli hit weather and had to turn around so they could put her on a fixed wing. Her family ended up beating her here. Anyway, I think she's gonna be OK but she'll be intubated for a while due to the aspiration. Worst thanksgiving ever right? The whole thing sure made me thankful for my health and my coworkers who helped make the best of the evening though.

**cinnepa** · 11-29-2015, 08:13 PM

marriage, makes ya hangout with people on holidays that in no way you would if you were single.

**iceman** · 11-29-2015, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by beaterdit

Unlike the rest of the holidays, I actually like thanksgiving, in spite of what it represents.

um, you don't think you should be thankful for what you have?

**beaterdit** · 11-29-2015, 08:38 PM

No don't get me wrong, I am thankful for what I have, even though it's been a [relatively] rough go this last year. I was referring to the whole native american genocide thing.

**iceman** · 11-29-2015, 09:16 PM

Don't we already hate Columbus day for that?

**beaterdit** · 11-29-2015, 09:26 PM

Oh yeah my bad.

**Meadow Skipper** · 11-29-2015, 10:01 PM

Originally Posted by cptpowder

I can't remember a bad Thanksgiving either but this reminds me of a few years ago I was working an overtime shift at the FD in southern santa fe county. We got a psychiatric call first thing in the AM and upon arrival turns out it was an elderly lady at the local retirement home who had been eating her own feces and was completely covered in it as well. I found it ironic that was our first call on Thanksgiving.
My suggestion to the med crew was hey she's stable lets clean her up first before you put her in the med. The more senior medic just wants to get going so we load her up and once we get her in there it smells even worse than you can imagine. He sticks the probe in the back to do pt care and he gets in the front to drive. One of the bigger dick moves Ive seen...

Total dick move.

**::: :::** · 11-29-2015, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by NW_SKIER

Came down with mono about two weeks ago. Yeah yeah, I've heard all the jokes already about questionable women. This shit's pretty much sucking the life out of me. Worst turkey day ever with the fever, headaches, and sore throat. Hoping to pull through soon as I am not enjoying this at all.

That sucks...hope you're feeling better!

**MMP** · 11-29-2015, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by TBS

We need an update from MMP

Well today the aunt that stormed out Thursday intended to text someone about how my wife stressed her out, when all she wanted to do was see John, but she couldn't because she was so worked up.....Her husbands name isn't john. Moron texted my wife, accidentally- that she was such a pain in the ass it knocked the aunt off her cravings for strange cock. The texts she sent trying to weasel out of that one are pathetic. She needs to be reminded that she is an idiot and we are smart.

**cinnepa** · 11-30-2015, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by Dantheman

Mid-Jan with surgery. It was a seriously freak wreck, but explaining it is more than I can type one-handed lefty.

OH NO, you have to do the left hand wipe now?? vibes man.

**Gepeto** · 12-04-2015, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by NmbrdDays

I'm thankful, thankful this holiday is finally over. How I dread/ hate the holidays. Time for shatter!

Don't feel as isolated - about 40% of Americans find the holidays difficult in all kinds of ways. A lot of it is comical.

Holidays have been tough for a decade.

**Dhelihiker** · 12-04-2015, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

This might just be a good place for this:

Posted from the Group W bench.

we played this on Vinyl this year, the entire side of the record, one song. The ONLY TG song IMO!!!

My dog killed all of the leftover Turkey 30 minutes after dinner this year. Pretty fucking tragic. I cant blame her, its was a strong move.

**old goat** · 11-23-2016, 12:18 PM

Not actually about thanksgiving but two good songs about family get-togethers--

**fatnslow** · 11-23-2016, 12:22 PM

I once lit a fart on fire in front of my whole family after a thanksgiving meal. My uncle(passed away last week) might have soiled his drawers from laughter along with the rest of my family. He was always my shock barometer since he had spent twenty years in the military and had been in two wars seeing all kinds of crazy shit in his life. If I made him gasp for air it was mission accomplished.