8 Types Of People At Every Thanksgiving Meal

Are you the big kid at the kids' table? Or are you the person who's just here to watch the game? Whoever you are, know that you could save 15% or more on car insurance by switching to GEICO. And that's something to be thankful about!

1. The Location Changer

It is days before Thanksgiving and everyone in the family has agreed on the location. But hang on, this person has another idea, which is to have it at a different location, which happens to be their place! The notion inevitably kicks up all the debris from past family holiday planning arguments, old alliances are reforged, and factions are created. Wherever you end up, this person will constantly reiterate why their place is better to host Thanksgiving throughout the meal.

2. The Turkey Truther

This person likes every aspect of Thanksgiving...except the turkey. It is their belief that turkey is literally the worst food to celebrate the concept of "thanks," as it is nothing to be thankful for. This person will concede that the sides of the Thanksgiving meal are very good, and when you look at their plate it's essentially an enormous pile of gravy.

3. The Significant Other (who is fine)

For whatever reason, Thanksgiving is the holiday to which relatives feel most comfortable bringing their new significant others, who are, in nearly all cases, severely "fine." Nothing wrong with them, but also nothing about them anyone at the table particularly finds interesting. When they leave the table everyone whispers in agreement, "They seem fine," and move on to the next topic of conversation.

4. The "It" Talker

Every family has an "it" that when uttered at the Thanksgiving table essentially collapses the conversation into disorder. And in every family, there is one agent of chaos who delights in the fallout, an anarchistic entity who, once a year, craftily injects "it" into the conversation. Whatever "it" is for your family doesn't matter. While people might protest talking about "it," that one family member has assured that "it" has metaphorically pulled up a seat to the table and is feasting on everyone's attempts at small talk.

5. The Good Hang Aunt

Aunts come in a variety of forms, most commonly "Judgy Aunt" and "Quilter Aunt," but, if you're lucky, you have a "Good Hang Aunt." She is, simply, a good hang. The table is at ease when she is talking. She has the best stories from the seemingly endless and interesting life she's lived, and yet is more interested in everyone else's boring lives than her own. No matter how fractured the family is, everyone equally enjoys the aunt who is a good hang.

6. The Teen At The Kids' Table

This poor soul is in that deeply awkward period in life when developmentally they're between the Adult Table and the Kid Table. On one hand, they are technically a kid, and therefore, by law, relegated to the Kid Table. But, as they hunch in their child-sized chair at the child-sized table, they find their conversation partners to be self-obsessed and meandering. They long for the invite to the Adult Table, where surely no one is self-obsessed or meandering at all.

7. The Game Watcher

While physically at the table, this person is mentally on the couch, still watching The Game, lamenting that we always eat during The Game. Only when The Game is over do you realize this person isn't even a football fan at all. On no other days in the year does this person watch football. It's only on Thanksgiving that The Game entrances them like some sort of spell.

8. The Inquisitor

This person inevitably sits right next to you at Thanksgiving. You don't recognize them, and it's dubious how exactly they are even related to you. Have we invented a new type of cousin somehow? Anyway, this person claims to have met you once before when you were much younger, and wants to know every single detail about your life since then. What's your job? Do you have a significant other? What was the first song you danced to at your middle school homecoming? What was your high school best friend's stepdad's name? Just when you begin to wonder if this person is a spy, they produce a photo of you as a baby with them...but somehow they are the same age as they are now?

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