{"id":288294,"date":"2025-11-28T18:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288294\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:06:12","slug":"my-mother-walked-in-the-door-and-handed-me-weight-loss-supplements-31-families-who-experienced-all-sorts-of-turmoil-this-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288294\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy Mother Walked In The Door And Handed Me Weight Loss Supplements\u201d: 31 Families Who Experienced All Sorts Of Turmoil This Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing screams holiday spirit like a classic Thanksgiving family showdown \u2014 just ask the people of Reddit! This week, user u\/Pure-Smile-7329<\/a> asked<\/a>, \u201cSo what did your family argue about this year at Thanksgiving?\u201d \u2014 and it wasn\u2019t long at all before TONS of responses poured in. So, from hilariously petty to outright scathing*, here\u2019s a roundup of reasons why people argued with their families this holiday:<\/p>\n

*In no particular order, might I add!<\/p>\n

1. \u201cWho the cat liked most.\u201d \u2014u\/DragonBard_Z<\/a>2. \u201cSomeone turned off the oven when the turkey was cooking. We ended up eating 2 hours later than planned. The culprit has yet to come forward.\u201d \u2014u\/OnlyLeading<\/a>\"Tyler3. \u201cMy elderly father now makes a weird whistling noise when he breathes. A debate broke out about whether or not it was audible. It was team hearing aid versus team no hearing aid.\u201d \u2014u\/Warm-Delivery1418<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: 38 Photos That Went From Totally Normal To Borderline Disturbing Given What We Know Now<\/a><\/p>\n

4. \u201cMy uncle pulled the old \u2018cut a square right in the middle of the pie\u2019 trick to be funny and mom lost her shit.\u201d \u2014u\/Bundabar<\/a>5. \u201cArguments over the top 10 guitarists of all time. Most sensitive point of contention was whether Prince made it anywhere in that top 10.\u201d \u2014u\/do-eye-dare<\/a>6. \u201cAn entire pie went missing. FIL searched around town for a bakery to make a mince pie. The box was on the table with other pie wrappings but the pie was gone. Nobody saw it. Nobody ate any. The dog denied any knowledge. Accusations of thievery, incompetence, senility, treachery, gluttony and perfidy were flung. A thorough search was conducted, every warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area\u2026 The pie remains missing. No clear suspects.\u201d \u2014u\/Particular_Ticket_20<\/a>\"Slice<\/p>\n

Robertsre \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

7. \u201cGuys my aunt decided to put raisins in the potato salad… The silence at the table was louder than any screaming match we\u2019ve ever had. It was a hate crime against potatoes.\u201d \u2014u\/Camila_Housewife<\/a>8. \u201cOne of my aunts got drunk and started loudly telling me how she wants to feed my pet rats poison to try to teach me that they\u2019re disgusting animals. Needless to say, I locked the rat room up.\u201d \u2014u\/JackFrostsKid<\/a>9. \u201cMy mom ordered my sister to finish the mashed potatoes then yelled at her for being in the kitchen, finishing the potatoes.\u201d \u2014u\/MissBrokenCapillary<\/a>10. \u201cStepmom refused all help offered while preparing the meal and also while doing dishes, and then bitched all evening that nobody helped.\u201d \u2014u\/Fun-Personality-8008<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Everyone Is Acting Like An A-Hole Lately, So Here Are 50 Photos Of Absolutely Infuriating People<\/a><\/p>\n

11. \u201cFirst racist comment was before 8:30am.\u201d \u2014u\/RyanTheCubsSTH<\/a>\"Katy12. \u201cGot in a fight with my husband because every time I ask him to take a picture of me, he rolls his eyes. And I ask maybe twice a year. Today me and our daughter looked all dressed up and he fucking rolled his eyes again, took some crooked pictures and I lost my shit. After everything I do on a daily basis, he can\u2019t do this one fucking thing for me.\u201d \u2014u\/Character-Signal8229<\/a>13. \u201cMy father-in-law insisted that leaving his shotgun on the floor overnight before hunting tomorrow was fine because my 6 y\/o and 4 y\/o kids wouldn\u2019t be able to load it and that he was leaving early. He literally had it right next to their Lego bin we brought. When I told him it\u2019s basic gun safety to have it locked in a safe he told me I was wrong.\u201d \u2014u\/ConcentrateUnique<\/a>14. \u201cI didn’t get any sleep last night and wanted just a couple minutes to myself while my partner took care of carving up the turkey. He came in angry that I wasn’t serving up everyone’s individual plates with their specific wants and desired measurements; then stomped off and shouted \u2018OKAY EVERYONE I GUESS ITS SELF SERVE\u2019 and then he didn’t even join us at the table and try the food I’d just spent 20 hrs in the kitchen preparing.\u201d \u2014u\/itsyoursanyway<\/a>\"Person<\/p>\n

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15. \u201cWe argued if cranberry sauce was the only side humans eat once a year because it\u2019s secretly terrible, or because it\u2019s too powerful to be used more often?\u201d \u2014u\/AeroDad89<\/a>16. \u201cBrussel sprouts. And whether it’s okay to insist that the very young children try them once.\u201d \u2014u\/CrazyDazyMazy<\/a><\/p>\n

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17. \u201cMy partner’s mom and grandmother (separate people) almost got into it over egg yolks. In particular whether partially cooked\/overeasy or fully cooked\/scrambled were more nutritious. I almost mentioned hard boiled just to set it off.\u201d \u2014u\/BoxOfTeeth<\/a>18. \u201cAre sweet potatoes and yams the same thing was the hot button topic of the night.\u201d \u2014u\/Seversaurus<\/a>19. \u201cMy brother thinks that when men get sick it\u2019s \u2018more intense.\u2019 The women happily explained that men just have a very low tolerance for discomfort.\u201d \u2014u\/leprechaun_dong<\/a>20. \u201cIt got pretty heated on whether Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback of all time.\u201d \u2014u\/the-great-crocodile<\/a>\"Tom<\/p>\n

Andy Lyons \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

21. \u201cI paid my mom\u2019s gas bill, her neighbors church paid her electric and she dodged a phone call from a potential job?? When I told her I was paying her bills with a credit card, she said \u2018DHS woulda paid it in December.\u2019 I uninvited her from Thanksgiving.\u201d \u2014u\/Breezenotorioussun<\/a>22. \u201cSomeone said city buses are a bad investment and the people who rely on them \u2018should just get a job.\u2019\u201d \u2014u\/jamesonnorth<\/a>23. \u201cMy cousin (on disability) started talking about how it\u2019s good that SNAP<\/a> was canceled because people were spending it on extra-long fake fingernails.\u201d \u2014u\/theghostofourprivacy<\/a>24. \u201cDonald Trump. We had 9 people at the table, and the ratio of loathes-Donnie to loves-Donnie was 8:1.\u201d \u2014u\/Annoyed_Heron<\/a>\"President<\/p>\n

Andrew Harnik \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

25. \u201cNo arguing, but got a quick \u2018heeeeyyyy\u2019 when I told my son that \u2018we don’t submit to fascists.\u2019\u201d \u2014u\/Ambitious-Second-136<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: 16 People Who Were So Accidentally Hilarious I Literally Had To Stop What I Was Doing And Share Their Posts With Everyone<\/a><\/p>\n

26. \u201cMy father-in-law set off 2 fireworks in the mid-afternoon despite a cousin with a migraine and multiple dogs who are afraid of fireworks. When my wife called him out on his selfish behavior, he went on a rant about how freedom gets limited when people complain about things and how he has the right to set off fireworks. He’s a doll to be around.\u201d \u2014u\/Afroku<\/a>27. \u201cEveryone was overstimulated and decided to be bitchy while cleaning up the dishes.\u201d \u2014u\/booksandbuilds<\/a>28. \u201cMy mother walked in the door and handed me weight loss supplements.\u201d \u2014u\/saphirekey<\/a>\"Gabrielle29. \u201cMy cousin announced she was pregnant with her boyfriend who most of us were meeting for the first time.\u201d \u2014u\/millie_nip<\/a>30. \u201cMy dumbass brother said that no one died of COVID.\u201d \u2014u\/Carrie_Underpants\/<\/a>31. And finally, \u201cThanksgiving turned into a debate over a mysterious ‘beeping’ in the house. Half the family blamed the smoke detector, the other half blamed aging ears. Turns out it was my cousin\u2019s AirTag in the dryer living its best life.\u201d \u2014u\/Limeonzinc<\/a>Well then! If you have any wild Thanksgiving stories, feel free to share them in the comments.More on this<\/p>\n

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