1. When you've got to hustle to get the piece of turkey you want:
2. When that one uncle starts to talk about the 2016 election:
3. When your love life suddenly becomes the hot topic at the table:
4. And when you have to fight back the urge of yelling in front of everyone:
5. But also when your family thinks it’s a good idea to bring up everything else that they think is wrong with your life:
6. When people start judging you for having a second slice of pie:
7. When suddenly your aunt wants to know about your grades:
8. When you realize at dinner he might not actually be The One:
9. When you're still at the kid's table but you can hear all the adults talking about you:
10. Or when you're flat-out just too big and old to be sitting at the kid's table:
11. When you don't want to pretend like the stuffing tastes like cardboard:
When you find out that majority of the thanksgiving dinner was made by somebody who can't cook
12. When you have to go to your in-laws for turkey day, and this happens:
13. When you're having a side conversation and then suddenly your whole family is paying attention:
14. When you roll your eyes at something one of your relatives starts going OFF:
15. When this is realistically the only way to survive dinner:
16. And when it gets so bad you wish you were playing a drinking game:
17. When you try to go for seconds and this travesty happens:
18. When you're in college, and you're struggling to make it to the holidays alive:
19. And when you pretend like you give a damn right before Thanksgiving break:
Me trying to study when thanksgiving break is coming up
20. When this miracle happens at college:
21. When you go home for the holidays and run into people you were friends with in high school:
22. When you're allowed to have a glass of wine at the kid's table:
23. When it's that one year you have to work on a holiday:
When I have to work on Thanksgiving.
24. When dinner suddenly becomes a chance for your whole family to roast you:
25. When your stomach says yes but your head says no:
26. And finally, when every year dinner is late and you're stuck with a groaning stomach:
