Random People Share Their Worst Thanksgiving Fights (17 items)

• (#9) Father Arrested For Tater Toss

  From /u/irishmac3:

  Growing up my dad was a raging alcoholic and my mom was crazy. So dad is drunk after watching football all day and as he ashed his cigarette on his dinner plate, the phone rings. It’s his sister. My mom answers and starts going off about how he’s a drunk POS. Dad unleashes his inner Uncle Rico and throws a pile of taters 40ish feet while seated, and hits my mom in the face, sticking in her hair, shockingly leading to a bigger argument. Later leads to my mom calling the cops and my dad getting arrested for domestic abuse for the tater toss, but this was the early 90’s in a small town, so they just drove him around and dropped him back off about an hour later. They are divorced now and my dad is 21-years sober.
• (#15) Cousin Angry That There Is No Hawaiian Sweet Bread

  From /u/squirmdragon:

  I have a... cousin who came after not being invited and then yelled at everyone because no one brought the “special bread” her son likes and now he’s STARVING. Maybe bring your own Hawaiian sweet bread if that’s the only thing your spawn will eat.

  She then boxed up a large portion of the leftovers and left and was unseen until the next unfortunate family function.
• (#8) Brothers' Fight Breaks Trailer Wall

  From /u/creepysnowflake:

  My brothers got into a fight. My oldest brother slept with my younger brother's new wife, who was like 20 years younger than him. They got into a fist fight and broke through the wall of their dad's trailer. The police had to be called. And that's why I stopped going to family evening. This was by no means an unusual occurrence, just the first thing that came to mind.
• (#10) Family Brawls With Each Other Before Getting Hauled In

  From /u/EvilTurtles96:

  An actual family fight broke out. We had to call the cops and everything. My grandpa got a fine, my uncle was arrested. My step grandmothers oldest daughter was arrested. Before my uncle and grandpa passed away, we wouldn’t let them live it down. It was glorious. When I say fight, I mean people on the floor throwing punches. We never went back to my grandpa’s for thanksgiving after that. This was when I was between 8-9.
• (#12) Atheist Uncle Asked To Lead Prayer

  From /u/sciteacher89:

  My grandmother asks my atheist uncle to say grace. Normally he complies as he knows it's just a thing his mom likes her kids to do. But other conservative uncle has been proselytizing to him all day and telling him he's worried he's going to hell and taking his non-church going kid with him. So instead of saying grace, he starts with, "Dear heavenly Father, please tell (conservative uncle) to take Jesus, Christmas, Easter, and a cross and shove it up his a**." Finishes with an amen. Fisticuffs ensue.
• (#4) Mother Roasts Family After Husband Cheats

  From /u/CodeNameisE:

  I believe the year was 2014? I had just graduated high school and my family was crumbling. My parents were not doing well in their marriage and my mom had me drive separately so that we would have a second car to leave early with if we needed it. (Red Flag #1) Mom did NOT want to go, but she felt that she should be there since all of her kids were going.

  Thanksgiving was not a small gathering. I'm talking 90-130 people that rented out space in a church banquet hall to have this gathering. It was a typical West Virginia gathering. Everyone was drinking and talking about church (I don't mind this, I'm just not religious myself) and Grandma was about to turn 90 the day after Thanksgiving, so everyone was all over her and she LOVES attention.

  Mom and Dad started to argue quietly in the corner about how Grandma was just interjecting herself into everything and you could just see the tension building between my parents. They were constantly making passive aggressive comments to each other and to the family members. It was all the drama in the room.

  My grandma kept asking me if the kids were okay (no, but we we're going to admit that). I told her that we were fine, but she then decided that we needed to extend our stay so that we could go to church on Sunday with her because we obviously needed Jesus. (My family has always been Atheist). She said we were raised poorly and badly behaved because we didn't have church in our lives. (All of my siblings are I were between the ages of 14-18, all have good grades and were polite, etc). I told my mom what she said to me and she blew a freaking lid. (Red Flag #2)

  She went to Dad and told him to tell off Grandma, and he refused and said that she was just trying to help and she thinks Jesus is the answer.

  She said, and I quote, "THE ONLY PERSON WHO NEEDS JESUS IN THIS ROOM IS YOU, YOU LYING, CHEATING SOB."

  Dead f*cking silent. The whole room just stopped talking and moving, and that's f*cking terrifying when there's that many freaking people.

  Dad then blew up on mom in front of everyone because she was embarrassing him. Grandma had to sit because she was so stunned. Mom decided to announce to everyone that dad was cheating on her and she was gathering evidence for the divorce. She then decided to point at every single person she hated in the room and describe to them why she hated them. Some examples -

  "Uncle Mike is a f*cking pedophile, and everyone knows it, but nobody does anything about it." (He was known to be a little too friendly with the kids).

  "Karen and Joe are first cousins and they're married. What the f*ck?!" (This was true. They even had the same last name).

  She turned to Grandma and said "You're the most bitter old b*tch of this entire bunch. I can only hope your pathetic a** doesn't make make it to 90." (Her 90th birthday was literally the next day.)

  "Angie is a meth head sl*t bag sh*t excuse for a f*cking mother" (She had been in and out of jail for [substances], but nobody ever mentioned it, and anytime it was brought up, it was quickly silenced. This was my dad's sister.)

  There was more, but once she was done screaming at the family, she opened the door and yelled "I cannot wait to be rid of this f*cking *ncest sh*tty a** WV church bullshit!" She then pointed at several people, said "F*ck You" to many of them individually, and then left the building.

  Needless to say, I went and got my mom and then left with her and my siblings very shortly after that and I haven't seen that side of the family since. Parents are since divorced and my mom is now happily remarried to a wonderful man.

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