10 ways to start a potential fight for Thanksgiving
 

1. Find a stray hair in the stuffing
2. Bring store bought potato salad instead of making it from scratch
3. Turning off the football game while the fellas are into the game and annouce (a. a pregnancy, b. an affair, b1. a pregnancy due to an affair<and both the spouse and babydaddy are in the room>, c. a divorce)
4. Drinking too much and start making passes at your sister in law
5. Eat some food and say, "Hmmm...this doesn't taste the same way that my mama makes it."
6. Also bring some store bought corn bread
7. Taking your family to mama's house and not eating because 'you all just
became vegans last month.' and sit your family near the turkey.(just to mess
with them)
8. Eat Daddy's portion of the turkey.
9. Invite your hot looking ex to dinner that's been coming for the last 5 years.
9a. Play footsies under the table with said hot ex.
9b. Get caught with said ex making out in the garage.
10. Start an argument with the person blessing the food by going into the true history behind Thanksgiving and ending it by saying that Thanksgiving is a pagan holiday.

haha

ds, you stoopid!!! lol

heh...thinking about how #7 happened to a friend of mine last year !

My own contribution is demanding to know what time the dinner will be served (not what time they want us there!), because there's a dog show at noon.

Have I mentioned that I'm not big on Thanksgiving?

To expand on #2, bringing Kraft Mac' and Cheese instead of making it from scratch..it's just wrong in so many ways.

I did #5 when I was a kid. I told my aunt (moms elder sister) that my mom made better food than she did. :p Needless to say, I still am NOT my aunts favorite niece. That woman can hold a grudge.

forgot to add one....puke green jello for dessert

WHAT?? You can't bring mac and cheese to Thanksgiving...that's definitely not Thanksgiving food!

wow really?? Lol, my family def has it every year I thought everyone had mac and cheese on Thanksgiving.

You forgot bringing up old stuff like who doesn't like who or arguments about things that happened before you were born. That always starts fights.

Macaroni and Cheese at Thanksgiving, Friends style...

10 is inaccurate in that anybody of any religion can celebrate Thanksgiving. Even atheists can still give thanks.

I think the Thanksgiving menu can be flexible. I had cranberry quiche, rice and peas, garlic bread, baked sweet potato, garden salad, and pecan pie yesterday. And drank sparkling cider. No turkey- brother insisted on having Cornish Hen instead, father does not care for it, and mother and I are vegetarians.

catholic church vs. the protestant church. liberalism vs. conservatism. pro-unions vs. no-unions. starts arguments everytime. :)

Can I add one...

Bringing the new boyfriend/girlfriend home for the first time.
Having said boyfriend/girlfriend call your mother's turkey dry.
Said boyfriend/girlfriend then acting rude to the entire family for the rest of the time.

(Let me just say I am glad I am going back to my place tomorrow, and I am ever so close to telling the boy to find his own way back so I don't have to spend 3 hours in the car with him.)

Perfect!!!

Didn't anyone mention pushing back dinner an hour because things aren't "done just right" then letting the most long-winded person bless the food? :D

Yikes. I spent my first Thanksgiving with my boyfriend's family this year, and his mother asked me and his brother's friend (from Iowa) if anything we traditionally ate was missing. I LOVE mashed potatoes and they didn't have them, but I didn't even bring that up because I thought it could be rude.

How about the relative who picks up the crystal bowl of mixed nuts and proceeds to pick out all the cashews while carrying on the conversation. My sister and I looked at each other like WTH???

Or dinner with the inlaws and their whole fam damly who think it's fine to have everyone bring turkey and/or side dishes and set them on the table at 10am and eat at noon when it is all cold/luke warm? eww eww eww. I hate cold food. Plus, at home I never let anything set on the table more than an hour or I throw it away. Then they save it all up and eat it again later in the evening. I ate only cookies for supper b/c I figure they didn't "go bad".

Try answering that question when the boyfriend's family goes to a Japanese restaurant on Thanksgiving.

Uh. Yeah. Everything.

Or having shellfish for the first time and finding out I'm allergic. Reason why I'd never had it before? My mom was allergic. I spent the evening in the hospital with my then-boyfriend's mom. That boyfriend went home - he was a douchebag.

Well, turkeys could always drop from the sky...

"As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."