Funny Thanksgiving family drama stories

Not Thanksgiving, but when I was about 6 my great Aunt stripped naked and washed her clothes in the sink before Christmas dinner.

This isn't funny but it is a huge family drama that has made me very thankful for our smaller thanksgiving dinners since then. About 12 years ago, but it is the reason for my mom's side of the family no longer being invited to our Thanksgiving Dinner anymore.

We usually have a large family dinner, but my mom wanted to have a huge family dinner, but my dad's side was already planning their own so no one on his side could make it. This honestly ended up being a great thing, but it was still a huge group. My grandma however refused to come if my Aunt Sandy wasn't invited. My mom can't stand her sister for numerous, (*see below for those details). The guest were: My mom's 3 sisters, and her brother, and their families (everyone but Sandy is married), My 2 cousins, and my grandma. Including our little family that is 13 people. My mom made a huge dinner hat was great.

After most the guest left it was only my Uncle and his wife and son left he asked "Did you give permission for Sandy to take your asthma medication" Turns out he witnessed my aunt take about half a box of her nebulizer solution. Note, my aunt is on welfare and doesn't pay for any of her meds. She has no need to take them. My mom had just gotten her prescriptions filled for her asthma and the pain meds for her back, and as it turns out she pocketed more that just the asthma medicine but half of two other prescripts as well.

My mom just wanted to let it go but my dad was fuming. So my mom had to call my grandma for my Aunt's number. My grandma refused until she knew why. When the situation was explained it suddenly because my uncle was lying my mom was lying etc. The argument ended with my mom and uncle being "disowned" and she "never wants to see your devil infested family again"

It take 6 months before my mom and grandma talk again. When my mom tries to make amends my grandma stats yelling. My mom can't even hold the phone up to her ear so my mom puts it on speaker. She said horrible things. after 20 min of her endless ranting i hung up the phone. A month later she called and started another rant and again after her endless rants for 20 min.I had enough, I picked up the phone (I was 16 and I am the quiet shy one, so when I raise my voice everyone listens)

"Grandma, your are a disrespectful B**** and you are not allowed to call her again until you can treat my family with respect"
Her voice got all whiny "What did I ever do to you?"
"You were disrespectful to my mother, and she is part of me, so you disrespected me. We do not need your venomous lies in our life. When you can behave like a normal respectful person we will think about letting you back into our lives" It wasn't until 4 years ago for my wedding that they reconciled, my mom has forgiven her.

Some of my grandma's choice words:
"You were so hateful from the time you were born"
"You are nothing but a w****"
"You were an abusive little b****. You remember that time you kicked me, you always were a horrible child" (Note the time she was referencing to my mom kicked my grandma ONCE to get my grandma to stop beating her head against the floor and wall)
"No one loves you, no one could ever love you."
"You are a lying piece of S***"
"You are soulless and if you aren't your soul will rot in Hell"

*My mom saved up for a long time to move out and when she finally got her own place she was so proud and invited her sisters over. It was the first week in her new place, Sandy was the only one who came over. She took a crap in the hot tub, she broke a bottle of alcohol all over the bathroom. She did nothing to clean it up, and my mom ended up getting kicked out without any of her money returned. Every boyfriend (including my dad) my mom brought home my aunt would come down in a see through nightie and flirt with a touch her boyfriends. My grandma will take anything she says at true, including that the devil made her crash her car into a telephone pole.

it's all fun and games until someone drops a deuce on the table

Ok, so I have a very attractive family, and one of my cousins is a raging gold digger (I still love her--but man does she have issues!), and she brought her newest fiance over to Thanksgiving dinner...good god he was so weird and creepy, claimed he was a podiatrist, but I seriously wonder if that's really the case. He showed up with a black eye and wearing a suit LOL. My cousin looked immaculate as usual, and bragged about living in a massive new house and shopping for herself this Christmas (using his card). haha, so naturally, my other cousins and I spent Thanksgiving discreetly making fun of them for being super ridiculous

Well, old gramps went on a tirade about Obama being a Marxist and how we all need to buy gold.

I got locked in the pantry and the lights turned out on me LIKE USUAL even though all my cousins are in their twenties. Some things never change.

I survived two Thanksgivings with no battle scars! We had fun at both!

Some of my grandma's choice words:
"You were so hateful from the time you were born"
"You are nothing but a w****"
"You were an abusive little b****. You remember that time you kicked me, you always were a horrible child" (Note the time she was referencing to my mom kicked my grandma ONCE to get my grandma to stop beating her head against the floor and wall)
"No one loves you, no one could ever love you."
"You are a lying piece of S***"
"You are soulless and if you aren't your soul will rot in Hell"

Sounds like some of the things my mother has said to me over the years.....hmmmm

there are always brawls at my gatherings..our motto is "it's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt..then it's friggin hilarious" -- that's how we roll

My family put the fun in dysFUNctional.

This was actually a Christmas story. But family drama everywhere.

Ok so my dads best friend dies on Christmas eve. My grandmother(moms mom) says "well chuck, shouldn't this be a sign you finally try to lose weight".

Between that and my "punk rock" boyfriend giving me a christmas gift of a chain to wear around my neck... yeah it was not a merry christmas.

My own family is pretty drama-free and the BF's family's drama this year did not involve me at all, so I mostly ignored it. But his brother's new girlfriend (who is 38 years old) showed up to a VERY casual family gathering wearing a dress appropriate for a very formal country club type event.

And it was a one-shouldered mini dress and while we ARE in Florida, it was very cold that day.

Oh yeah, and a family friend and his wife came with their 1-year-old. Mom was cold enough to wear a sweatshirt and jeans, but she dressed the baby in a short-sleeved, tiny little dress, no shoes or socks and didn't even bring warmer clothes ot a sweater for the baby.

*sigh*

Nothing much, but my son and my husbands cousins kids were doing lots of wrestling and running. (5 year old boys). My brother in law freaked out and yelled about this. He has an older son (who is great now-he's 13) and a 5 year old girl who would cry if one of the boys bumped her. I just told him they were little boys and to suck it up, however I really wanted to tell him to dig the stick out of his *kitten*. It was great other than that

Mine is not really family drama but funny anyway. The company that I work for was hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for a place called Harbor House for recovering addicts. I volunteered to make green bean casserole for 80 people. I made 8 pans and had five of them lined up across the trunk of the car and three more across the back seat. Don't you know that my dog (11 month old German Shepherd) thought he was going for a ride and jumped in the back seat. Green bean casserole everywhere. Thank goodness he didn't lay down in it. He didn't even eat any of it, just stood there looking proud of himself. The portions were a little smaller but at least 5 of them survived.