Awkward Thanksgiving Moments

[MushyMushy]

Last year was pretty awkward! We had my DSis and her family, my dad, my son and his girlfriend and my daughter invited a friend over. That's actually a big gathering for us because we never do dinners.

Anyway, my dad started going off on a tirade about Obama and black people in general. I was mortified and started yelling at him and my DS stepped in... he has the attitude that his pap is ignorant, but old and that makes it funny to him. I grew up with that kind of bigotry so I won't excuse it on his age! So it was all around awkward and not in a funny way.

 

[HeatherPage]

Not Thanksgiving but last Christmas Eve, went up to my husband in the buffet line (I had had about two rum and cokes at this point) and gave him a little pat on the rump...except as I looked across room at the opposite side of the kitchen I saw him leaning against the counter looking at me, as I realized I was patting the rump of his cousin's husband that had on very similar shorts and golf shirt...whoops!

 

[bballmom56]

Last year was pretty awkward! We had my DSis and her family, my dad, my son and his girlfriend and my daughter invited a friend over. That's actually a big gathering for us because we never do dinners.

Anyway, my dad started going off on a tirade about Obama and black people in general. I was mortified and started yelling at him and my DS stepped in... he has the attitude that his pap is ignorant, but old and that makes it funny to him. I grew up with that kind of bigotry so I won't excuse it on his age! So it was all around awkward and not in a funny way.

Sounds like my DH's family. But we don't say anything because we will not convince them otherwise and it will result in a huge blowup. But we have always used that as a teaching moment for our kids. They understand that bigotry is wrong, but don't need to take on grandma and grandpa (and uncle and cousin) in their house.

My DD used to have a boyfriend who was half puerto rican, half caucasian. We never told DH's family of the bf's ethnicity, not wanting to hear their comments. So bf comes with us for one holiday and sure enough, DH's nephew makes stupid, ignorant comments about (insert derogatory term for hispanics). I am mortified, look at bf, and fortunately, he is just chuckling. He had already sized up this guy for what he was. He had been forewarned, but that still didn't make it any easier for me.

 

[Carly_Roach]

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2339463

Wow. Just, wow. There are no words.

I think my DH would have stopped that right away with his (sometimes a blessing) tactless comments:

"Hey, bro, if I want to watch porn, I'll pay the professionals. Grow up and take that **** outta here."

 

[surfergirl602]

Well, not really awkward like some on here, but we didn't cook this year. DH's batallion at work serves the soldiers their Turkey dinner, so we went over to the chow hall early so we could eat with him. Well, between all the screaming, the counting off, and the mass amount of people marching, DD 2.5 started screaming bloody murder, and running for her life. We caught her but she was in tears and very scared of the ocean of camo heading towards her. We quickly got her some mac and cheese, her favorite, but she was constantly looking over her shoulder. I felt so bad!

 

[Disney Doll]

Most Awkward Thanksgiving???? Remember the old Sat. Night Live shows where Dan Ackroid would say "Jane, you ignorant slut" ? DH loved that line and would always joke around with me saying "Acklander, you ignorant slut" just to be funny.
At a BIG thanksgiving dinner with ALL the relatives, we're sitting around the table eating when DS (about 6 at the time) said "Mom, you ignorant slut" (not realizing what the words meant, just remember hearing his dad say it in a funny way) . My brother, without missing a beat turned to DS and said, "Don't call your mother ignorant"
While my brothers and sisters were aware of the Dan Ackroid skit, my parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents had no idea. Made for a pretty awkward moment.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!!!!!!!!!

 

[BLTtinkerbell]

DH's sister likes to dress very sexy & everyone could see her g-string! One of the cousin's little ones saw & asked "what is that purple line?" and another replied "her underwear" It was so awkward!

 

[brasswillow]

This Thanksgiving, during dinner, my dog threw up in the kitchen. There was a brief pause in the conversation and we continued eating and talking. Awkward!

 

[Stacerita]

I had brought a "date" to dinner one year. It was someone I knew for a long time, we were starting to see each other, and I found out he was going to be alone on Thanksgiving. So I had him come to dinner at my family's home. Well, an aunt who is 30 years older than I hit on him and asked for his number before dinner. He just laughed and looked at me. He didn't know what to say. Wasn't the first time at a gathering that she did something like that though.

 

[maps]

Went to my sister's this year and I saw a car pull up that I didn't recognize. Turns out she invited her husband's high school buddy since he was going to be alone for the holidays.

Nice gesture and luckily my husband didn't mind considering he was also my exboyfriend from 20yrs ago!

Can we say "awkward"!

 

[Cinerbelle]

My Sister and her family came over to our place for dinner yesterday... Sis and BL are in the middle of splitting up, but she is currently living with him until she finds a place. The whole day my Sister keeps commenting on his "girlfriends" since she found movie stubs in his pocket while doing laundry. Ugh... you could cut the tension with a knife and all this talk right in front of their kids. I was sooo uncomfortable. I told her we already have plans for Christmas day.

 

[HOGFAN]

MIL doesnt know SIL and BIL getting divorce. They were both there yesterday. BIL acted okay but SIL acted very distant and not very nice to BIL. It was very awkward and hard not to talk about situation.

 

[nutterbutter2010]

NONE!!! Other than having to watch football all day (YUCK!) it was actually very enjoyable!

 

[OhMari]

My MIL turned 70 on Wednesday.
Every year, my dh always wants to get some last minute flowers and we never do, because we live in a rural area, where you can't just go buy any at 6:00 p.m. before we go over to her house.
So this year, I ordered some flowers from 1-800-flowers on Monday.
A really nice fall/birthday bouquet.

Well my inlaws came for Thanksgiving yesterday and walked in with the flowers and said, thank you for the flowers. I looked at them, and thought, "geesh", I'm going to have to take a picture and write an e-mail and tell them, these were not the flowers I ordered." They were the correct color, but there were hardly any flowers in the bouquet.

My inlaws left for the evening, and I was sort of sad, that my MIL left her flowers at my house. I was going to get in the car and drive to her house to give them back. But my dd stopped me and said, "mom", didn't you hear grandpa? He said, "here, now we are even, Happy Thanksgiving".

I guess I am glad I didn't say anything about the flowers, it would of been awkward. I learned a long time ago, to not ever say what I am thinking with my inlaws.

 

[disykat]

This wasn't a holiday, but it was a big family gathering with cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents, etc. at my parents house. Most of us were in the living room sitting around talking (kind of in a big circle) when our geriatric dog walked smack into the middle of the room and pooped on the floor. Since I was just a kid and my mom and dad were both in another room at the time, it was definitely awkward!

 

[redlight]

Not Thanksgiving but last Christmas Eve, went up to my husband in the buffet line (I had had about two rum and cokes at this point) and gave him a little pat on the rump...except as I looked across room at the opposite side of the kitchen I saw him leaning against the counter looking at me, as I realized I was patting the rump of his cousin's husband that had on very similar shorts and golf shirt...whoops!

I think you win.

 

[paintnolish]

Not Thanksgiving but last Christmas Eve, went up to my husband in the buffet line (I had had about two rum and cokes at this point) and gave him a little pat on the rump...except as I looked across room at the opposite side of the kitchen I saw him leaning against the counter looking at me, as I realized I was patting the rump of his cousin's husband that had on very similar shorts and golf shirt...whoops!

Haha! at my Gma's funeral, my (I have 3 younger sisters) sister's dh came up and massaged the shoulders of who he thought was his wife. It was a different sister!