Random People Share Their Worst Thanksgiving Fights (17 items)

• (#1) Cousin's Husband Pulls Gun On Mother And Child

  From /u/Olive_the_Cat:

  My mom told my cousin's husband not to cuss in front of their baby because she'll eventually repeat it. I get it, not her place maybe? Cousin's husband pulls out his gun and threatens to shoot my mom for telling him what to do. He looks exactly like you'd imagine.
• (#2) Grandfather's Secrets Accidentally Revealed

  From /u/Northsidebill1:

  I was around 5-6 years old. Us kids were playing hide-n-seek and I hid way in the back of Grandma's closet. While I was hiding back there, I found this beautiful deep red robe, I assumed it belonged to my grandfather who [passed] just after I was born. I tried it on and it was huge on me but the silk felt really smooth and cool, so I decided to go ask my grandma if I could have it to grow into.

  Turns out granddad was a Grand Dragon in the Carolina KKK and it was his ceremonial robe. The family members who didnt know about this already were highly upset, the ones who knew were embarrassed as hell. There was a small riot when I walked into the kitchen wearing it. That was an awkward Thanksgiving.
• (#3) Kid's Prayer Leads To Slap In The Face

  From /u/mpaug:

  When I was a little kid, I asked to say the prayer. It was a big honor to get to say it. My family was notorious for fighting so I said my little prayer all nice and cute then ended with a smarta** "God please let my family act normal today and not fight". Before I could blink my German grandmother slapped me across the face really hard which p*ssed my mother off. Lots of yelling and we left.
• (#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.
• (#5) Grandfather And Uncle Duke It Out Over Grated Cheese

  From /u/nferrandi:

  My uncle and grandfather dont have a good relationship, but were tolerating each other because Thanksgiving. My uncle was cooking lasagna and my grandfather decided to help, so he grated the cheese. He did this in another room, because the kitchen was full of other people cooking, we have a big Thanksgiving maybe 15-20 who love to eat. I had brought in the cheese and everything was going fine. Flash-forward to dinner time, the food is coming out and as tradition dictates we always start with lasagna. My grandfather made some joke like," I know you hate me, but at least I'm grate", and shit hit the fan. My uncle literally went into a rage, and was yelling at everyone because we didn't tell him he was using "tainted" cheese. Then said "f*ck it" and proceeded to flip the table ALL the food was on. Then my grandfather called him outside to settle the score, which resulted in two grown men fist fighting in the backyard, culminating with my grandad getting thrown into the pond we lived off of, and slicing his leg on a jagged rock that he landed on. The rest of us ordered Chinese food, and kicked my uncle out, and my grandfather refused the hospital because he had a little too much "holiday joy" in him at the time. Surprisingly my uncle hasn't come to holidays in years now.
• (#6) Mother Wants Everyone To Drink Their Own Urine

  From /u/MyElectricCity:

  My mom dominated the conversation about how everyone should be drinking their pee. For a solid 45 minutes.

  She read in some yoga book about how it cures some infection called "Bali belly" that you get in places like, you guessed it, Bali. But also that it's actually just really helpful for all sorts of sh*t. Went way into detail about how you have to catch it mid-stream of the first pee of the morning, etc.

  By the end she was defending it so thoroughly she said she was going to start tomorrow morning.

  She never did and now denies the conversation lasted more than 5 minutes and that everyone was egging her on.
• (#7) Brother Slapped Sister Over Being Mouthy

  From /u/pinkordie:

  My brother got trashed before the dinner started then slapped me at the table for being a mouthy woman (I asked if he wanted the mashed potatoes for reference) and then ran off to puke.
• (#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.
• (#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.
• (#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.
• (#11) Family Outs Each Other As Users

  From /u/puddingtoes:

  I was only a toddler at the time but thanksgiving is known as the anniversary of the day my mother, father, and uncle outed one another as [smack users]! Life fell apart fairly rapidly the following year and it has been fun ever since. Thanksgiving is now just a small family affair of myself, my brother, and my guardian grandparents.
• (#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.
• (#13) Aunts Fist Fight In The Yard

  From /u/yelyah66:

  I was 8 and hanging out with an older family friend, she was about 13. For some reason my very drunk and high aunt thought that this family friend was turning me against my cousin (her daughter) and bursts into the house screaming at her about this. Then said aunt got into a fist fight with another aunt in the front yard.

  Yeah, we stopped seeing that side of the family for awhile.
• (#14) Sister Threw Green Bean Casserole On A Painting

  From /u/SexySolemates:

  My oldest sister called another sister "a fat b*tch" over some stupid fight they’ve been having for years, who then in turn picked up the bowl of green bean casserole and threw it at her. She missed (it wasn’t that far, but I guess she was really angry and that messed up her aim), and it ended up hitting my mother's favorite painting. It wasn’t salvageable.

  We all stopped having Thanksgiving with the entire family after that.
• (#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.
• (#16) Drunk Nephew Gets Slapped By Younger Brother

  From /u/MomSlom:

  My drunk nephew was giving his (much smaller and younger) brother's girlfriend a really hard time and when she left the house in tears younger brother stood up to older brother. Next thing we know my son is saying "Umm I think you'd better come out back" [and] we found drunk nephew swinging round house punches. Good news was his punches were in slow motion because he was so drunk. Younger brother was able to duck them all and then was able to get inside the reach of his brother and bitch slap him right in the face. Older brother could not have been more surprised. So pretty trashy but also pretty darn funny and frankly pretty satisfying.
• (#17) Family Goes At It Over Pudding

  From /u/Rebellious1:

  Pudding wars. As a child, my grandmother would make banana pudding for Thanksgiving. Homemade custard and meringue, the works. Every year my mom and her brother would outdo themselves trying to keep the other from getting the pudding. My uncle broke into our house one year to steal it, my grandma took to making decoy pudding and hiding the real stuff. But one year. One year takes the cake.

  My grandma refused to make the beloved pudding. My great aunt steps in and offers to make it. Great aunt shows up, my mom takes the entire tray of pudding from her hands, and runs into my grandmothers bedroom screaming at my younger cousin to get her a spoon. She locked herself into my grandmothers bedroom with every intention of eating herself sick on that banana pudding. Unfortunately, my great aunt can't cook. The result of this was that instead of smooth, creamy custard, the pudding had bits of scrambled egg yolk in it. (This happens if you try to heat the custard too fast and don't continuously stir as its cooking.) Only moments after locking herself in the room, my mom returned, disappointed, and ate her turkey in sullen silence.

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