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My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« on: November 21, 2012, 04:35:04 PM »
This one blames everything on his wife.  Uh Huh.

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My wife: Should we rethink Thanksgiving as a holiday?

 
(My wife kind of wrote this little thing that has been on her mind. I thought I'd share--for better or worse.)

Should we just give up the idea that Thanksgiving is a real holiday for Americans. Who really has that "Norman Rockwell" holiday? How many people in this country dread this holiday more than any other holiday in the American calender? Let's face it. People drive maybe hours or days or rush to caught fights to meet at someones house where they meet ONLY to eat a meal together and perhaps watch a parade or Football match on TV and what ends up happening more times than not--Arguing, fighting, and night full of indigestion or worse from too much food and too much stress. Not to mention that this day has become nothing more than the kick off day for the "Shopping Season". But this isn't truly about the Family Drama that Thanksgiving seems to bring but rather the actual event that kick off the "Shopping Season"--aka BLACK FRIDAY.



Look at the headlines during this past week and a half. Stores pushing that start of the mad Black Friday rampage and dangerous event of rushing to get the more important events of Christmas holiday and store profits ramped up even faster than the year before. Stores are starting Black Friday Sales on Thanksgiving day and those stores that aren't opening their doors until the more "reasonable hour" of 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. are still having workers going on Thanksgiving to prepare for the "BIGGEST SALE" of the year.


But look at it more closely. Isn't this holiday just emphasizing those of privilege to those who are not? I will state right now. I am one of the lower paid americans. I make a little more than min wage BUT not much more. I work hard for my money and I'm not saying that Teachers and Lawyers and doctors and bank tellers do not work hard for their money BUT I know cashiers and stockers who work at various stores who will not have much of a thanksgiving because they must work and THEY themselves will not be able to take part in shopping for those same sales they much supply and ring up. One of my neighbors mother will be at the store she works at and will not see her family on Thursday.


Not to mention the fact that THE "HOTTEST" TOYS and the MUST HAVE ITEMS are priced much lower than any time during the "shopping season" before Christmas. Why shouldn't we see these type of sales or prices throughout the season leading up to christmas? Why is it that we see those who are lucky enough not to work on Thanksgiving or Black Friday treated like non-humans during this time of the year?


I know I won't change this whole event but perhaps if you are lucky enough to be one of those who can partake of this event of Black Friday try and remember those who had to work to make it a shopping event for you and JUST MAYBE if people start realizing that their fellow Americans who are working and a lot of these people aren't volunteering or getting time and a half like they once did but must look at the "holiday" as just another working day maybe the shoppers can make the retailers see is an event America doesn't need as much as a real living wage and a little more respect when it comes to benefits and kindness on how they are forced to work like sub-humans.

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4. You must be a real downer to be around.

If you don't want to do Thanksgiving, Christmas or any other holiday then don't. Don't try and wreak other people's small pleasures. If you don't want to do Black Friday no one is forcing you to go to any store. As far as other people working on these holidays so what? We are not a 1700s subsistence economy anymore. Plenty of people have to work on Thanksgiving. I used to work at a steel mill and it operated 24/7 every day of the year. We worked all the holidays and no one complained. No one forced anyone to work there and the union had negotiated a good Holiday wage. What about police, military, first responders, hospital workers,etc.. who work every holiday. That is part of the job. Take your negative shit elsewhere.


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8. NO you aren't getting what my wife is saying. LOOK at our society today. You either are wealthy

enough to enjoy the "holiday" or you need to work make others "holiday" special. How about respecting others enough that people don't have to worry about working Black Friday. How about no one be forced to work a $8 an hour job on a day when families are "suppose" to be together because IF THEY DON"T WORK IT THEY COULD BE FIRED because their employer looks at it as a another business day.


As for being together as a family--The saying is you can't pick your relatives. IF you are lucky enough that you don't have to be around relatives that don't push your buttons you must be a very lucky person.

Translation.  I am an ass so no one invites me to their home for the holidays.


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9. I think you should celebrate Thanksgiving like YOUR FAMILY wants to, and stop worrying

about how everyone else does it.

OOOH, SPANK.   :-)


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10. Kind of a nice thought BUT when you have friends and family whose seats are empty because they

need to work on that day IT does become something that should be thought about.


LOOK at WALMART workers.

Oh Good Lord.  The Drama.  My son hasn't been to a Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner in 10 years. He VOLUNTEERED to work all those times. Time and a half.  It's the law.   :-) 


DUmp monkeys complain so much about so little.


The Christmas stories should be fantastic.   :lmao:


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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2012, 04:38:31 PM »
Typical of liberals, they are unhappy, they see someone who is happy so they demand that the happy people give up what makes them happy.

How about you idiots quit your whining and find something in life to be thankful for and quit worrying that someone somewhere is having a better time than you are.

I don't get Friday off and I don't go around bitching and moaning demanding that everyone else be forced to work too.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2012, 04:51:54 PM »
Just to rub their noses in it a little

I am going to be happily sitting down to dinner tomorrow for the first time in two years that my husband and I have even been in the same country at the same time for Thanksgiving. Not to mention the several other times in the last decade that one of us has been deployed or had duty that day. Did I mention that both our families are hundreds of miles away and we can't make the trip to see any of them due to military and work obligations. But we are happy to be celebrating this holiday together for once. So thank your lucky stars that you are in the same time zone as your loved ones, sit down, STFU and eat.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2012, 04:52:52 PM »
My, what a bitter little man.
The wife probably hates it because she has to listen to his incessant whining all day.
Freaking loser.  :loser:
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2012, 04:54:59 PM »
Quote from: AprilRazz on November 21, 2012, 04:51:54 PM
Just to rub their noses in it a little

I am going to be happily sitting down to dinner tomorrow for the first time in two years that my husband and I have even been in the same country at the same time for Thanksgiving. Not to mention the several other times in the last decade that one of us has been deployed or had duty that day. Did I mention that both our families are hundreds of miles away and we can't make the trip to see any of them due to military and work obligations. But we are happy to be celebrating this holiday together for once. So thank your lucky stars that you are in the same time zone as your loved ones, sit down, STFU and eat.

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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2012, 05:04:20 PM »
 :cheersmate:

Enjoy your Thanksgiving AprilRazz.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2012, 05:11:58 PM »
The great thing is he is doing most of the cooking!!! :-)
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2012, 05:15:00 PM »
Quote from: AprilRazz on November 21, 2012, 05:11:58 PM
The great thing is he is doing most of the cooking!!! :-)
MRE's???

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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2012, 05:16:58 PM »
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I will state right now. I am one of the lower paid americans. I make a little more than min wage BUT not much more.

There's the rub.  Another "want something for nothing" liberal Democrat (pardon the redundancy) who gets paid $8/hr who thinks they deserve $100K/yr.  Boo Hoo Hoo.

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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2012, 05:22:54 PM »
Thanksgiving is about being with those you love and appreciating what you have.    You don't need to spend a great deal of money to do that misfits.   Lord are they miserable.

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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2012, 05:49:37 PM »
Can you imagine what it must be like in Diabeticman's home?  I picture a dark, damp, smoke filled efficiency apartment.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2012, 05:51:30 PM »
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Should we just give up the idea that Thanksgiving is a real holiday for Americans. Who really has that "Norman Rockwell" holiday? How many people in this country dread this holiday more than any other holiday in the American calender? Let's face it. People drive maybe hours or days or rush to caught fights to meet at someones house where they meet ONLY to eat a meal together and perhaps watch a parade or Football match on TV and what ends up happening more times than not--Arguing, fighting, and night full of indigestion or worse from too much food and too much stress. Not to mention that this day has become nothing more than the kick off day for the "Shopping Season". But this isn't truly about the Family Drama that Thanksgiving seems to bring but rather the actual event that kick off the "Shopping Season"--aka BLACK FRIDAY.

I have to wonder why the DUmmies can never seem to get through a family holiday without arguing. I've got some family members who don't get along with each other. They always argue. Except on family holidays. On family holidays they always leave their disagreements until another day.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2012, 05:58:17 PM »
Translation of Diabeticman's rant to Modern English.

My wife and I have been ostracized from both our families for the holidays. We apparently never stopped talking politics and could not tolerate dissenting opinions. We cause arguments, and no one wanted to see us gloat this year. So we've been kicked out of all family gatherings.
-----> no more free feast, free presents, or free stuff!

Thanksgiving is evil. Since I'm not getting my pony, the holiday should be outlawed.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2012, 05:58:23 PM »
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4. You must be a real downer to be around.

If you don't want to do Thanksgiving, Christmas or any other holiday then don't. Don't try and wreak other people's small pleasures. If you don't want to do Black Friday no one is forcing you to go to any store. As far as other people working on these holidays so what? We are not a 1700s subsistence economy anymore. Plenty of people have to work on Thanksgiving. I used to work at a steel mill and it operated 24/7 every day of the year. We worked all the holidays and no one complained. No one forced anyone to work there and the union had negotiated a good Holiday wage. What about police, military, first responders, hospital workers,etc.. who work every holiday. That is part of the job. Take your negative shit elsewhere.

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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2012, 06:03:42 PM »
I went over there and read the replies and thought Diabeticman's grammar mistakes were very familiar to his wife's. Someone else in that thread pointed out the same thing I was thinking.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2012, 06:10:54 PM »
Quote from: Skul on November 21, 2012, 05:15:00 PM
MRE's???

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Actually Mr. Aprilrazz is a better cook than I am. :rotf:

Actually he is cooking a roast duck for us and we invited a friend over who was unable to be with her family.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2012, 06:44:41 PM »
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8. NO you aren't getting what my wife is saying. LOOK at our society today. You either are wealthy

enough to enjoy the "holiday" or you need to work make others "holiday" special. How about respecting others enough that people don't have to worry about working Black Friday. How about no one be forced to work a $8 an hour job on a day when families are "suppose" to be together because IF THEY DON"T WORK IT THEY COULD BE FIRED because their employer looks at it as a another business day.

Lord, what an idiot. For a lot of people, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day are another business day!

On holidays over the years, I've: eaten turkey from a Mermite; flown medevac missions; heated a C-ration can of spaghetti on the exhaust manifold of a Jeep and drank powdered coffee from a canteen cup; decorated a Christmas tree in the nurse's station of the ER; worked a trauma code in the snow for New Year's Eve; arrested a drunk driver on Christmas; got my foot broken making an arrest another New Year's Eve, pumped the stomach of a drunken suicide attempt for the Y2K; sang Christmas carols with my patrol buddy, Zeus the Farting Dog; and had a day or two off somewhere along the way.

I celebrated Christmas with my family when work schedules allowed, and I never gave a shit about Black Friday. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2012, 06:46:51 PM »
I just started a new job and I'll be working tomorrow. You know why? Cause it's good having a job and supporting myself. At least I get off at 11 and can meet my family for lunch.

And the time-and-a-half helps.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2012, 06:51:26 PM »
Quote from: Mike220 on November 21, 2012, 06:46:51 PM
I just started a new job and I'll be working tomorrow. You know why? Cause it's good having a job and supporting myself. At least I get off at 11 and can meet my family for lunch.

And the time-and-a-half helps.

Congrats on your new job, Mike.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2012, 07:05:23 PM »
Quote from: AprilRazz on November 21, 2012, 04:51:54 PM
Just to rub their noses in it a little

I am going to be happily sitting down to dinner tomorrow for the first time in two years that my husband and I have even been in the same country at the same time for Thanksgiving. Not to mention the several other times in the last decade that one of us has been deployed or had duty that day. Did I mention that both our families are hundreds of miles away and we can't make the trip to see any of them due to military and work obligations. But we are happy to be celebrating this holiday together for once. So thank your lucky stars that you are in the same time zone as your loved ones, sit down, STFU and eat.

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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2012, 07:07:46 PM »
I'm supposed to be off Thursday and Friday, but that doesn't mean I won't get called in.  
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #21 on: November 21, 2012, 07:17:43 PM »
Quote from: Big Dog on November 21, 2012, 06:44:41 PM
Lord, what an idiot. For a lot of people, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day are another business day!

On holidays over the years, I've: eaten turkey from a Mermite; flown medevac missions; heated a C-ration can of spaghetti on the exhaust manifold of a Jeep and drank powdered coffee from a canteen cup; decorated a Christmas tree in the nurse's station of the ER; worked a trauma code in the snow for New Year's Eve; arrested a drunk driver on Christmas; got my foot broken making an arrest another New Year's Eve, pumped the stomach of a drunken suicide attempt for the Y2K; sang Christmas carols with my patrol buddy, Zeus the Farting Dog; and had a day or two off somewhere along the way.

I celebrated Christmas with my family when work schedules allowed, and I never gave a shit about Black Friday. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.

The nurses on the night shift at the ICU I'm finishing my schooling at are bringing Thanksgiving dinner in.  Everybody who is working volunteered for a dish.  I imagine they do something similar for Christmas, and celebrate with their families as they can.  I know that at this particular hospital, everybody has to sign up to work a certain number of major and minor holidays.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2012, 07:32:11 PM »
Quote from: AprilRazz on November 21, 2012, 06:10:54 PM
Actually Mr. Aprilrazz is a better cook than I am. :rotf:

Actually he is cooking a roast duck for us and we invited a friend over who was unable to be with her family.
Love duck.  Hope he cleans up afterward.
Enjoy the day.
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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2012, 07:38:37 PM »
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aren't volunteering or getting time and a half like they once did but must look at the "holiday" as just another working day

Black Friday's not a holiday- never was. It's just another working day- always will be. Idjit.


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Re: My Wife HATES Thanksgiving
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2012, 07:43:27 PM »
Quote from: AprilRazz on November 21, 2012, 04:51:54 PM
Just to rub their noses in it a little

I am going to be happily sitting down to dinner tomorrow for the first time in two years that my husband and I have even been in the same country at the same time for Thanksgiving. Not to mention the several other times in the last decade that one of us has been deployed or had duty that day. Did I mention that both our families are hundreds of miles away and we can't make the trip to see any of them due to military and work obligations. But we are happy to be celebrating this holiday together for once. So thank your lucky stars that you are in the same time zone as your loved ones, sit down, STFU and eat.

Congrats! All the best to both of you.
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