Thanksgiving for me the last few years has been like going into blissful hiding. We've just been hanging out with friends. No Uncle Teabags, just people our age. But some chestnuts from years past:
- Wife's uncle Dave in Denver is an insurance salesman and spectacular alcoholic, and I mean a guy who can put away 2 handles of vodka on a weekday while on the clock (because he owns the company) and still drive himself to and from work much less stay awake. He's been at several Thanksgivings in years past, going back to when we were just dating, and early on he picked me out as a guy he needed to spar with. 5:00PM he's fine, just a light buzz, and the guy is charming as hell, funny and witty and kind. At 5 you can see why he was so successful as a salesman and a husband, once. By 7 we've eaten and he's in the bag, and wants to talk "politics," which is really him picking out a point to argue, losing the argument, then quickly pivoting. All you have to do is show him to be intellectually inconsistent (which he cannot stand, being a guy who prides himself on having carefully thought out his hatred) or to be cruel, which some part of him also cannot stand. Then he pivots. One year when he was having no luck with me, he literally began to wrestle with his son on the kitchen floor, eventually breaking a cabinet door. All in good fun. - Unlce Dave's Mom... She was a piece of work who didn't even bother to hide the racism. She had BALLS. Grouchy old fart, too. Once put a series of coins on the table in front of me, a penny first, then a nickle, dime, and quarter. Lincoln's head faces left, all the others face right. "You know why they're all facing away from him? Cuz he freed the slaves! HAAA ha ha ha ha!" ...I just stared at her for a second, moved the penny to the far right and said "look now they're all friends. So hey everyone, I'm not ok with this lady. I'll be outside." Unpleasntness ensued. And hell, i think that time Dave broke something at the hotel this all happened at, late at night.
_________________ [quote="Bloor"]He's either done too much and should stay out of the economy, done too little because unemployment isn't 0%, is a dumb ingrate who wasn't ready for the job or a brilliant mastermind who has taken over all aspects of our lives and is transforming us into a Stalinist style penal economy where Christian Whites are fed into meat grinders. Very confusing[/quote]
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