Worst Thanksgiving Weekend...

Pycroft
Pycroft Posts: 1,960
edited November 2009 in The Clubhouse
Hi all..


I just had the absolute worst Thanksgiving weekend you could ever imagine. I'm not one to go into details, but I'd love to hear about some of your awful Thanksgiving stories. Let's bring some humor to a bad situation! Thanks,

James
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited November 2009
    Heartburn all weekend!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited November 2009
    The sewer system backed up in to my basement this past weekend....where I am storing all my stuff while I refinish rooms.

    Yeah. Doesn't get much worse than that. Sorry, I find no humor in losing my stuff to **** water because the line in the street was backed up. All I have left of my stuff is a box frame to a bed and my stereo equipment.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,988
    edited November 2009
    Ouch, John. Sorry to hear that.
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited November 2009
    I usually try to enjoy the holidays, but hope whatever you're going through turns around for the better bro.
    Shoot the jumper.....................BALLIN.............!!!!!

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  • zarrdoss
    zarrdoss Posts: 2,562
    edited November 2009
    My sewer system back up up on me too. to the point where I had severe lower back- pain and have not done "****" all weekend.
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  • thsmith
    thsmith Posts: 6,082
    edited November 2009
    Sick the entire time and could not go to Houston. Stayed home but my wife bought me a Marie Calander Turkey dinner. Obviously she went to Houston.

    Feeling better today.
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited November 2009
    Worked all my days off, behind... Enjoyed it with a bunch of web surfing in between tasks though. I'll make up for it next month with a lot of vacation. :)
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2009
    Wow. We had a long lost cousin visit and she was awful but that doesn't compare to some of your stories. Sorry y'all had a bad weekend.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited November 2009
    We normally have Thanksgiving dinner at my grandmother's house, but this year I was told at the last minute that we were doing it at my mother's house because my grandma was sick. I called from Wal-Mart and asked if I needed to bring anything, and my mom told me that it was all covered. So I smell cooking on the day, hear them say food is ready... and all there is on the table is a turkey. No sides... Just turkey. I was pissed, but didn't know what to say, so I made a sandwich out of some of the turkey then went to a co-worker's house for food.

    Friday night, I'm talking to my mom and she lets slip that there's still food at my grandma's house. I'm like "Uh, you told me they weren't doing anything there." She says "Oh, they wanted to keep it small so we weren't invited." So I ask her who went to my grandma's for Thanksgiving. As it turns out, everyone else in the family who normally goes there was there... except me, my mom, and my stepdad.

    I'm still befuddled. Gotta' wonder if my mom just pissed off my grandparents or something, but I'm getting contradicting stories from my family. Needless to say, I've already made Christmas plans elsewhere. Heh...
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,601
    edited November 2009
    Felt sick all weekend. Worked Thursday morning and Friday.
    I did order a USB DAC. That's about the only good thing.
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  • Pycroft
    Pycroft Posts: 1,960
    edited November 2009
    Wow...was expecting so much negativity, especially for this Thanksgiving. This was my worst ever, and perhaps my only bad one. So sorry that many others had a bad weekend as well.
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  • opus
    opus Posts: 1,252
    edited November 2009
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Wow. We had a long lost cousin visit and she was awful but that doesn't compare to some of your stories. Sorry y'all had a bad weekend.

    Come on Bob, no names, but what's the story?:D
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited November 2009
    I felt I should have ate more, and didn't get nearly as drunk as I should have - slipping in my old age...
    jk
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2009
    opus wrote: »
    Come on Bob, no names, but what's the story?:D

    It's not much of a story. She's just a whacko alcoholic. She had just had a surgery to remove her bellybutton the day before, so not only was she on vicondins, but was just DOWNING scotch (3/4 of my dad's thing of Dewars the night before). She was up all night in my dad's small apartment, keeping him and my stepmom up. She would go outside to smoke a cigarette every hour or so, and it would make her cough, and she would be doubled over in pain cuz coughing would hurt her surgery.

    Just insane all around. My poor storytelling skills don't do it justice :)
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • opus
    opus Posts: 1,252
    edited November 2009
    remove her bellybutton?????????????????????


    What am I missing here?
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited November 2009
    I had no idea you could remove a bellybutton?
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,140
    edited November 2009
    I thought there would've been some good stories from the club here this weekend but I thought Bens' troubles was keeping it somber. Man you guys,when it rains it pours. Those stories I THOUGHT only happened to me and my family. We're all different but when it comes down to it we're really kinda the same.
    We did have a good peaceful holiday here though. Just my wife and daughter.Nothing went wrong...like last year:(
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  • opus
    opus Posts: 1,252
    edited November 2009
    dkg999 wrote: »
    I had no idea you could remove a bellybutton?

    Lotsa of beer and chicken wings was how I did it.:p
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited November 2009
    opus wrote: »
    remove her bellybutton?????????????????????


    What am I missing here?

    No idea. I ddin't ask nor did I want to know.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited November 2009
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Heartburn all weekend!
    Keiko wrote: »
    And that's not all. :D:D:D:p

    For us, this has been one of the best, for obvious reasons. I'm sort of a Grandpa and y'all are Aunties and Uncles. ;)

    Hehehe . . . I didn't want to get too graphic.


    On another note, Ben being really sick in hospital.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited November 2009
    Pool pump died Thanksgiving day! Nice since I'm looking to spend $500 to $1500 in fixing it, just before Christmas and not AUDIO related. :(

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  • Pycroft
    Pycroft Posts: 1,960
    edited November 2009
    Belly Button thing made me laugh...thanks...first time in a while.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited November 2009
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Wow. We had a long lost cousin visit and she was awful ....

    That line right there had me laughing my **** off long before he got to the details. Which were indeed awful.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited November 2009
    Jstas wrote: »
    The sewer system backed up in to my basement this past weekend....where I am storing all my stuff while I refinish rooms.

    Yeah. Doesn't get much worse than that. Sorry, I find no humor in losing my stuff to **** water because the line in the street was backed up. All I have left of my stuff is a box frame to a bed and my stereo equipment.

    that's **** :p
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited November 2009
    I won't go into detail BUT...

    when someone found out someone else's son was a stripper. Talk about awkward moment at the dinner table. At least the food was great and so was dessert!
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 18,988
    edited November 2009
    Because of the stripper? :eek: :D Say it ain't so..........
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  • vc69
    vc69 Posts: 2,500
    edited November 2009
    Ok...

    Big meal planned by myself and my lady friend (of about a year) with two of three daughters. Everyone arrives. As the food is about to come out of the oven and with the turkey carved and waiting, an epithet flies from one of the girls that is a bit offensive to myself and the lady friend. I called the offender (my youngest daughter) aside and explained the infraction.

    *poof*

    The daughter got all defensive and blamed my lady friend for my "jumping on her" (not so) and left in a huff with her husband and, since middle daughter was riding with them, she left too.



    As far as I can tell, no alcohol. Just latent animosity.

    My girlfriend and I sat there looking at $200 worth of a fine meal we had worked quite hard to prepare. Flabbergasted.

    Dysfunctional family thanksgiving...

    Good times.

    Is that more what you guys were looking for? :p
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  • Pycroft
    Pycroft Posts: 1,960
    edited November 2009
    Both Posts reported
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  • miner
    miner Posts: 1,305
    edited November 2009
    Drove from Houston to San Antonio's Lackland AFB to take two recruits to lunch - Operation Home Cooking. Had to be at the base @ 7:30a. Left Houston @ 4:30a and returned @ 8p. Nice to help fellow servicemen celebrate Tgiving. The hassle was worth it.
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  • apphd
    apphd Posts: 1,514
    edited November 2009
    Jstas wrote: »
    The sewer system backed up in to my basement this past weekend....where I am storing all my stuff while I refinish rooms.

    Yeah. Doesn't get much worse than that. Sorry, I find no humor in losing my stuff to **** water because the line in the street was backed up. All I have left of my stuff is a box frame to a bed and my stereo equipment.

    **** happens. Sorry to see of everyone's difficulties over the holiday. Sucks when they occur on a normal day, compounds when it's on a holiday.:( Hope everyone can some how find a way to laugh these off soon and were still able to see the things they do have to be thankful for.

    Jstas glad you were able to save your gear.
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