Hey Pandas, What Was Your Worst Thanksgiving Debacle? (Closed)

A skunk got into the house by the cat door, and one of my cats chased it all over the living room, dining room, and kitchen…spraying the whole time. All my furniture, including my piano, all of my Navajo rugs, even the art on the walls, were dripping with skunk spray. It was 3:00 in the morning, and 20 people were coming for dinner that night..

Tested positive for COVID! Silver lining? A whole day of binging Netflix, napping, and eating.

My wife's sister and her husband were always late to family gatherings.
One year at Thanksgiving, it was approaching dinner time at her mom and dads, and they had not shown up yet. We called, and sis replied, hubby is just getting out of the shower, I am finishing my deviled eggs, and we will be on our way.
Well, an hour later, we started our meal without them. They showed up, got out of their car, set a large box next to it, and came in.
Well sis had to explain: "I knew you were all in a hurry for us, so I put the eggs (in their shells) in the microwave to cook them, and went to help my husband choose clothes. I came back to this" and pointed at their microwave they had brought along. With a dozen, cooked, exploded and burned eggs in it, and a smell that you could smell from many feet away.
I wish I had pictures of a yellow black coating on the door of the microwave, and an indescribable sulfur smell.
From then on, we let her bring desserts as their contribution to the family Thanksgiving meal.

Bro-in-law said, in front of his new wife, he preferred my pumpkin pie to hers. Ain't been invited back since. Wait, is that a debacle or a lucky escape :-D

The Thanksgiving after my ex tried to kill me 2 months earlier. Had my mil cause she had already been living with us. Early alzheimers, she just sat on my daughter's couch and peed in her diaper. Worst holiday ever.

My cat died and I spent the whole day crying

Mine would have to be when I was about 5 years old. true to form my Uncle did his celebrating early and when it came time for the football games he was plastered, drunk off his a*s for non Americans. So much so that he mooned the entire family when his teamed scored. Should have seen my Mothers's, Aunt's faces was priceless. Never saw much of that Uncle again as a matter of fact.

Had an allergic reaction to pecans, thanksgiving 2006. Since then, I’ve been stuck with that allergy.

Stomach bug this year. No Thanksgiving dinner for the whole family because it wouldn't stay down.

My family cancelled……

I had all this food and no one to eat it with

Last year, my friend made Thanksgiving dinner. Her oven caught fire, and all was ruined.

Thanksgiving '07 at my ex husband's cousins house. Let me start by saying I hated his family. I have good manners so every time I was around them I was always quite & polite. Well we get there and everything was made out of a box. All the children took seats at the table so all the adults (there were a lot of them) had to sit on the floor to eat. When others hot up for seconds I noticed that they were serving themselves with the plastic forks they'd just eaten with. Not that I had planned for 2nds it was hard enough to choke down the first time. Finally they ended the evening arguing over the grandparents estate who gets what, the grandmother had passed earlier that year; the grandpa was still alive & there at the dinner.

Not as bad as the others. 2022. Only 1 in 4 of my kids were here. A lonely one for sure.

I have a HUGE extended family, and we used to all gather together for Thanksgiving. We'd always set up a little crafts table, and one year, disaster struck. My older brother decided it would be so fun to make a pool of hot glue on the table, and my younger brother decided it would be fun to stick his hand in it. Flash forward over all the screaming and crying, my younger brother had to go to the hospital with a really bad burn, and the mood was killed a bit. But, he was a smidgen high on whatever they gave him for the pain when he got home, and a high seven year old is really funny.

Not mine but it was pretty funny. I'm a dog trainer and I got a call about a beagle a few years back. It was a purebred beagle, typical size and was allowed to run around on the kitchen counters like a cat by its owners who had no control. It was not however allowed on the table. To each their own I guess.

It was Thanksgiving, they had set the table, had begun moving everything over. It jumped up and grabbed the turkey by the leg, taking it down. They saw, yelled at the dog so the dog ran at them baring teeth and barking. The they left it alone, afraid (of the tiny dog)... the dog ended up eating literally the entire turkey then jumping up, knocking gravy everywhere and scooting across the table cloth.

They ate pizz for dinner.

Now the dog is a model citizen :)

My family always does this thing called the Saran Wrap Ball (Swb) it originated from my stepmom

It wouldn't let me finish, it originated from my stepmoms family but made it's way around. One year it was my aunts turn to make the swb, and all she did was fill it with blank prices of paper

2018- I overheard my "partner" on the phone with his nephew who’d lived with him and his now ex about 8 years earlier and was abused by the ex. They both were, actually. He was telling nephew about his daughter’s RN pinning and his son-in-law "was going to have the sheriff escort me off the premises" if I showed up. Next he told his nephew that grandma & grandpa invited him and his 2 sons for Christmas "but they don’t want (me)". He was very matter of fact, didn’t bother him that someone I’d never met planned to do that and that his mother despised me.

Later I found out he had his real Thanksgiving with his ex and tried to claim he wasn’t listening to his mom but he did go to his daughter’s pinning with an affair partner.

I hate Thanksgiving.

3 days before thanksgiving we found out my mom was allergic to turkey

Years ago, after Thanksgiving dinner, and the mess was cleaned up and the leftovers were put away, I laid down for a well-deserved nap. I woke up to the sounds of a lot of kids in my house and thought nothing of it. It was just my own and their friends. Later all was silent, and I got up from my nap, looking forward to a turkey sandwich and a piece of lemon chiffon pie that my daughter had made just for me. When I got to the kitchen, there was nothing left of anything! Turkey bones and empty dishes! My kids and their friends had eaten every scrap of food that was left-over. Including my lemon chiffon pie! To say I was insane with anger would be putting it mildly.