For some reason almost everyone has a Thanksgiving horror
story. Here are some of the issues:
- Turkey still frozen
- Turkey cooked with the giblet package contained
- Not all the food is done even close to the same time
- Toilet overflows
- Garbage disposal backs up
- Guests arriving at 9 AM for a 3 PM dinner
- Guests not arriving because of weather but don’t call
- Guests bringing unknown extra guests but don’t call
- Guests not bringing food items they were assigned or volunteered
- Guests stealing money out of purses
- Guests drinking too much and acting obnoxious
- Guests getting into physical fighting matches
- Guest arguing and leaving early
- Guests drinking too much and staying over night
- Lots of food is spilled on the carpet
- Lots of beverages are spilled on the carpet
- The dog/cat is yuuking up on the carpet
- Dishes and glasses are broken
- Counters tops are cut into
- Water rings are left on woodwork and furniture
Here is my best worst Thanksgiving story:
The dinner is over. The same lovely guests who always help
are helping with the cleanup. Dishes are put into the dishwasher, pans are
washed and dried by hand, leftovers are placed into containers, and the turkey
carcass is wrapped up and placed in the refrigerator.
Next morning hostess looks in her refrigerator and can not
find her leftovers. Not one container of potatoes, green beans, turkey,
stuffing or even the carcass is found. She calls 2 of her guests who helped
clean up and they are dumbfounded. She calls her Mother who says she saw a
guest put into a black garbage bag the carcass. The hostess calls said guest
who admits that while she was taking the carcass she just took everything else
too!
What’s your best
worst Thanksgiving story?
14 comments:
I left the turkey in the car overnight assuming it would defrost when I lived in Ithaca, NY. WRONG! Guests arrived around 2PM, dinner was served at 10!
Wow, that was a horrific story, can you even imagine? I have no horror stories. None.
Laura Lee, I can totally understand your thinking but yes frozen turkey happens.
Carol that is just the best of the worst, I have a lot of them! You are charmed. My other best of the worst is when I got a call from the host saying turkey was ready. It was 8:45 AM for a dinner at 3PM. Rookie mistake of putting the turkey in at 450 covered at 6 AM. It was a bit dry!! The dinner with all the other components was still not ready until 3PM.
Wow! What a strange thing to do.
I once took a Wednesday night class. On the night before Thanksgiving, we learned that one of the students had yet to take the turkey out of the freezer. Much of the class ended up being a crowd-sourced advice on what to do now.
Yes Joy, strange and yet not remorseful at all! The still frozen turkey is a common mishap!
Very funny, the frozen turkey was one of my absolute worst. Two more: Mashed potatoes were lumpy (I mean REALLY lumpy) and I couldn't put them back into pan to cook because I'd already added milk & butter.
The next was the WORST. Husband decided to change out our kitchen sink the NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING at about 8PM and of course, realized he needed another part and store was closed so on THXGIVING day I was washing the turkey off in bathtub. I was so pissed at him. He managed to get it done by the time the guests arrived LOL.
Everything? She took everything? Yikes.
My worst story was when the sink clogged. I ended up waiting until some neighbors' family left, dragging my dishes over to her house to wash everything by hand, dry and bring back to my house. It was a nightmare ending to a long day.
Good stories! I think Claudia almost everyone experiences the frozen turkey and finding the store open for the snake tool to send down a clogged sink!
Yes Karen she took it all including the good tupperware containers.
Yes the clogged sink is a perpetual problem of course only happening when there is a crowd and company!
Oh no! I have to admit I have mostly good stories from my Thanksgiving dinners. I don't always cook...yesterday we were invited over to a dear friend's home with her and her family and it was lovely. Of course last year I ordered a special "heritage" bird that was range free and perfect and when I went to pick up what I thought was going to be 12-15 pounds all he had for me was 23 pounds. I didn't have that big a pan and sort of panicked about how to cook it. Fortunately it did turn out fine but that 23 pounder cost a small fortune. Don't think I'll do that again! ~Kathy
When I was about 12 my mother put the turkey in the oven and we all went skiing for the day. When we got back, mom discovered she hadn't turned on the oven. We had semi-done turkey at about 10pm, a very late Thanksgiving dinner.
Kathy i had the same experience! Being mature I remember when turkey was inexpensive but now buying a Heritage or Organic, not so much!
That's a good one Dianne. Usually Someone including me forgets a dish in the refrigerator!
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