Hey Panda, When Your Extended Family Gets Together, What's Something That Always Happens? (Closed)

I always get told how I could have done better. One, I’m now in my 50s. Two, I’m part of the management team for a nationwide catering brand in the UK, but they don’t understand that bit!
I let it go because I get to travel home once or twice a year, since COVID, next month will be the first in two years. Not worth getting annoyed about it. I know who I am and my worth.

Massive jam session (much of my father's side of the family is musically talented), fish fry and at least one person is going to get dumped in the lake.

Iranian family: Singing and dancing
English family: Long awkward silences

My little (4-9) cousins fall asleep on me as I read them a story book I brought for them, after playing with them. Their mother talks with my mother and I remain there, completely helpless because I do NOT want to wake them up. I love them so much if you can’t tell.

My sister and her family will be two to three hours late.

I avoid such things like the plague.

My husband and his sisters make a huge batch of homemade gnocchi, as their grandmother and great-grandmother did. Now their children are drawn in. I watch and wait (my family is more the chopped liver and matzoh ball types). I'm delighted to watch the youngsters develop expertise, it's a tradition that really wants continuity!

Are you hungry? Have you eaten yet?

My family - Someone died. Only reason we still get together

My wife's family. Laughter, joking, hugs...

Sitting on giant rocks drinking homemade rootbeer

my mom and ads side of the family are very different, with my moms side of the family, when we get together its usually for a wedding or thanksgiving and its always a bunch of my distant cousins who I've never seen before but knew my mom so i'm ALWAYS bombarded with "you look so much like your mother"
my dads family on the other hand, when we get together its because we hadn't seen each other in a while. and instead of distant cousins, its my grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. no matter what happens you can count on at least on night of a full game of Mexican train, and my dad and uncle playing on there guitars. (you can also alway count on there being one or to rounds of "American Pie)

We’re all friends, so we talk and eat and laugh a lot! They’re my favorite people to spend time with:)

My cousins get into a wrestling match.
There is always too much food
My grandma hates me and my mom
It sometimes can turn out ok but most of the time it’s not

Ok so my family lives kinda all over the place but when we do get together my siblings I get the same thing ever. single. time. "Wow! you're so tall! Have you grown?!" Like bruh just because we're the only ones in this family who ended up with any height at all doesn't mean we grow five inches every time we see y'all.

We play computer games. Seriously. When growing up, computers were fascinating things that my uncles were starting to work with, so every time the family got together we would gather as a group to see what these computers could do. It ended up being a christmas tradition that after the food and merriment, we sat down as a family and demonstrated new things and we all played together. Even now, nearly 30 years later, three of my uncles in IT, we still do it. Friedly competition that brings the family together. We're a bunch of nerds :P

My brother and I will get into a serious argument over nothing because we both have to be right. Nearly coming to blows during the argument.

And five seconds after the argument, we end up laughing at each other because it was such a dumb, trivial thing to be arguing over.

My extended family is pretty normal. We just sit at the table, talk, and try to be polite.

Talks. About. Religion. We never fight about it, but we always try to prove whose right and whose wrong.

Talking about politics, every single time

A least 2 people make comments on my dyed hair. It's really annoying.