You know there are entire families getting together this year thankful they don't have to set a place this year at the table for their cousin/son/daughter/nephew/uncle etc that ruins the entire day with crazy political talk and trashing the belief system of everyone at he table BUT them.
AH THE HOLLIDAYS, There is a reason that the Police and Emergency Care is fully staffed at that time.
First Thanksgiving in Va. we had a family of 11 kids, parents and grandma living down the street from us.
Seems that Grandma tended to wander about so with all the comings and goings in that home someone tied Grandma to a kitchen chair. She being spry managed to hop about and still tied to the chair, out the door into the street.
Everyone from the youngest child at 8 to grandma had been drinking all day.
After church and our dinner we heard police sirens and we all went out on the front porch to find half the neighborhood sitting on their porches with drink in hand watching the show.
What a show that was, Their eldest child was 28 or so and down the line, they had arrived with their children so there must have been 30 people in the family drunk as skunks and Grandma in the street still tied to the chair.
A few of the kids or inlaws were wanted by the police so when the cops came they bailed Ass running down our street leaving family and kids behind. Some of the teenagers climbed on the roof, others into trees as more and more Cop cars showed up.
My neighbors were calling out bets to other neighbors on who would get caught and who would escape. One neighbor yelled at me because one of the family was on MY roof.
The police were ordering us to go back inside our homes but few of us did, this was getting interesting.
My older daughter opened her bedroom window and took out the screen so the kids could get in, the house. Had we all stayed on the porch that would not have happend. She was the only family member that followed the commands of the cops and soon joined us out on the porch watching as Grandma was still in the street tied to her chair and hopping down the road.
The cops were hog tied as no one was armed or dangerous, just drunk and getting even with family members that they thought had done them harm in the past.
We had a good 2 hours to watch all this, we got to meet our neighbors and say " HOW DE DO"
No one was arrested as the police could not catch anyone that ran, The people they did get were drinking on their own property, and non violent to the police and the family members that had black eyes or head wound's swore they walked into a door.
Grandma was untied and was escorted home with no trouble and the kids that had hidden in my daughters room left by the back door.
Most interesting Thanksgiving I have had to date-----Welcome to the South Vesta, The next few Xmases proved to be even more interesting.
