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Celebrating big and important celebrations is what brings all families together. It is one of those times when despite all of the difficulties such as time, distance, differences, and old family drama, everyone shows up to have some quality time with their loved ones. However, even though this might be the goal of the evening, sometimes things run a different course. Very often there is that one person who can turn things upside down and make the night one to remember. 

Having this in mind, Reddit user @IAmA_Wolf asked people online to remember and share “the trashiest thing somebody has done at your family Thanksgiving.” This gave a green light to a lot of people who decided to reveal who from their family did the craziest thing during Thanksgiving dinner, and how.

Thousands of people decided to reveal what embarrassing, annoying, or crazy funny things their relatives or just guests did during the gathering. From collecting leftover food the minute everyone sat down to eat to fistfighting or finding out their significant other was cheating on them, people had some juicy stories to tell. 

Which one of these stories did you like the most? Don’t forget to share your own Thanksgiving story in the comments down below!

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Almost trash, but not. I'm at a huge Thanksgiving dinner at my son-in-law's brother's place. His redneck dad had been drinking and deep frying turkeys all morning. Mostly drinking. He comes in to learn that his daughter's spouse had a bit of change and went from "Bill" to "Jane." Nice time and place to come out, right? He goes right up to Bill/Jane and says, "Well, we all love you no matter what." Then we all had a dinner that could not be beat.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) This was just a joke, but I still felt It was worth sharing...My uncle made a scene about having dropped something on the floor. When he was sure enough of us were now paying attention, he bends over to pick it up, his shirt rides up and we see a tramp stamp tiger crawling out of his buttcrack. It was a temporary tattoo that he had my aunt help him put on specifically put on for this occasion.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Every year my family "subconsciously" gives all the left overs to whichever cousin isn't doing the best in life.

I've gotten the leftovers for the last 6 years.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You have to look at the bright side: they acknowledge how bad you are off. This is a good foundation for more help, understanding and some love and energy to help you out of it. Much preferable over ignorant people, or people who pretend not to see whats going on.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My religious extended family were in deep prayer and the dinner table when my mom yelled “f**k! The bread is burned!”

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once gardened at a churchyard, the old priest was kind and came to ask if the guys and I wanted a coffee, wich we gladly accepted.He went to his house close to the church. A few times later, we heard a big mess in the kitchen, and probably the worst curses we had ever heard ! We were dying laughting, then he came back, red faced...So human tbh

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I was at my wife’s uncles house for thanksgiving , and his wife decided right after dinner to play their wedding video ( because it was also their anniversary weekend). She looks for a half hour to find the video tape, finds it and gathers the whole dinner party (25 ish people) to the back room area, plays the video, and right as she’s walking down the aisle, mid way down the aisle it goes fuzzy..... and cuts to...... Dale Earnhardt’s funeral. Uncle joe used that tape to record Dale Earnhardt’s funeral. Granted it was in small town Michigan wherenthe nascar track is, but still....Everyone froze in complete shock and I started laughing and felt like i was in a sitcom but it was real life.

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#6

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My uncle brought pizza to thanksgiving because he didn’t like my grandmas cooking. She had spent all day cooking our thanksgiving meal and he brought pizza! He, my aunt, and my cousins ate the pizza like it was nothing. My grandma went into the other room and cried.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aww poor grandma. If you don't like it, pretend to eat it and then go eat something else later or beforehand

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) someone (we never figured out who, though i suspect my younger cousin) set the TV to the playboy channel right as we were finishing up eating (this year we had so many people we had to eat in the living room, right next to the TV

i don't think I've ever seen my grandma laugh as much as she did when she saw everyone scrambling to find the clicker :)

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My brothers got into a fight. My oldest brother slept with my younger brother's new wife, who was like 20 years younger than him. They got into a fist fight and broke through the wall of their dad's trailer. The police had to be called. Aaaand that's why I stopped going to family evening. This was by no means an unusual occurrence, just the first thing that came to mind.

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#9

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) The woman my cousin had just married stole a Costco sized box of individually wrapped Cheezit packages from our garage. I just happened to notice they were gone when putting food in the fridge. Asked about it publicly and she locked up, started stuttering, and went to get them out of her car. She returned with the excuse "I thought these were mine. I have a box just like them at home".

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) This isn’t an isolated thing, but if someone doesn’t show up for thanksgiving or Christmas we automatically check the inmate records at the county jail. It’s happened a few times that someone’s absence is accounted for by an arrest and/or jail stay.

In 2016 my brother was a no show for Christmas and we checked the jails website. We saw our unique last name on their roster and assumed he’d been arrested. Turns out it was my uncle. I never did ask my brother where he was that year.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Big Thanksgiving dinner at the in-laws, even my inlaws’ extended family members were there, and out of nowhere my mom tries to start a conversation with “I’m not a racist but...” and I didn’t even hear the rest because I was laughing because she most definitely was a racist. That was the last year she was invited.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My FIL often makes racist jokes. I often question them, plus his wife is asian, and if he overdoes it, I ask her and her sons what they think about his slurs n stuff, in hope he thinks about this some day.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My husband's brother and his sister-in-law (who was married to his OTHER brother) always disappeared for about 20-40 minutes at the same time.

This happened for four years in a row before anyone got nosey enough to go looking for them.

Sister-in-law is now married to the Thanksgiving Hookup Brother.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

tell me you're from Alabama without telling me you're from Alabama

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Not sure if it counts, but my girlfriend and I were getting really serious and so our families had Thanksgiving together for the first time. It was a huge deal for us and our families and it was a great day. She broke up with me the next day.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Something tells me the story would sound very different if she was telling it.

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#14

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My aunt was sent to bed because she was too drunk last year and ended up falling down the stairs an hour later when she tried coming back

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My uncle and my cousin's husband fought about flat earth for 3 hours

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

3 hours to speak the words: foucault's pendulum? Disprove those physics and you have my attention.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) We were hosting thanksgiving and prepared all the food ourselves and my mom spend all morning cooking and baking. My aunt, uncle and cousins arrive right before dinner and walk in with a White Castle case and said they just stopped to eat a few minutes ago. We had prepared thanksgiving just for them and they decided that they wanted White Castle instead.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would have said, "Since you ate already, how about if you leave and we'll see you another time".

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My aunt and uncle showed up an hour late to dinner. My aunt then proceeded to yell at all of us because we started eating without her. The rest of the family still makes jokes about it and some are still not on speaking terms with her.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ridiculous. It's hard enough to get everything hot and on the table at the same time, but to hold everything for an hour, then go through that again? Nope.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My sister in laws mother brought her young boyfriend to our family thanksgiving. Turns out the boyfriend was my cousins ex that she just broke up with a few weeks prior.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) We were hosting a young lady my wife worked with, as well as her boyfriend. Halfway through dinner and somehow the discussion got to how her and her brother "once got super trashed on Robitussin, and next thing you know we ... Uh ... Yeah that was really a weird time."

Everyone just got really quiet as we were trying to decide how to fill that one in and where to go with it. For some reason they got really quiet after that.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Should have gone with the weirdness and told them about the time you found outer space aliens drinking all your beer in the basement and had a party with them.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I have a crazy cousin who came after not being invited and then yelled at everyone because no one brought the “special bread” her son likes and now he’s STARVING. Maybe bring your own Hawaiian sweet bread if that’s the only thing your spawn will eat.

She then boxed up a large portion of the leftovers and left and was unseen until the next unfortunate family function.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My first Thanksgiving at my future in-laws house, when I was meeting most of them for the first time, his Dad, when I had never met) mentioned my breasts multiple times, once referring to them as "pillows". I was mortified.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My brother in law's father went out to the refrigerator we keep in the garage and ate both pumpkin pies we made before dinner was even served.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've never had pumpkin pie, are they smaller than normal pies? I mean how can one person eat two whole pies?

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Blasted uncle got butt f**kin naked for the "what do you give thanks for" speeches. No joke. Best day ever

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Was he trying to prove why he was saying he gives thanks for his huge weener?

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I don’t think this constitutes as trashy, but my uncle hosted Thanksgiving last year. It was amidst all the drama about kneeling during the national anthem in the NFL. So naturally instead of having a small prayer before the dinner, he had us stand for the national anthem.

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#25

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My uncle poured Crown Royal on his turkey and ate it.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Aunt took all of the left over turkey, all of it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cheap. My family did this before, but in agreement with the rest of the famliy. And because we really didn’t have any money and no one else wanted anything.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) She was responsible for bringing the dessert. She showed up 3 hours late and instead of bringing dessert she brought an open bag of frozen pierogis. It was a real downer.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which kind, as pierogies can be savory or sweet? I mean an open bag of frozen anything is pretty crappy, but it would have been even worse if they were potato & cheddar as in the picture!

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I told my girlfriends sister in law the brides maids dresses she picked out were tacky. Thinking i was talking to someone else in the family. I proceeded to tell her they looked like whoopi goldberg in sister act. She still despises me.

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My cousin posted her new wedding pictures while sitting at the thanksgiving dinner table. She hadn’t told any of us that she got married. My aunt said “you got married??” She denied it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny. I got wedding presents on a reunion, only told 2 persons and ye, won’t trust both ever again.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) I have an uncle who once got so drunk he decided to mix the red and white wines together

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) One thanksgiving my family (grandparents and aunt’s family) were all eating at a buffet that was decorated extensively with a ton of gourds, pumpkins, general thanksgivingy decorations... and we all started taking them back to our table every time we went to the buffet table. We had our entire table covered before the staff started to notice. Trashy but hilarious!

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#32

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) My grandpa was pretending to fake punch my grandma for s**ts and giggles. The thing is, she leaned into it. He knocked her out and she fell to the floor. Best Thanksgiving ever, went down in history

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#33

People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Picked up an entire stick of butter with their hand to butter their corn.

No wrapper. Bare hand to butter.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Farted at the table and wafted it at everybody.

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People In This Online Group Share What Things Their Family Members Had The Courage To Do At Their Thanksgiving Gathering (30 Stories) Well, my mother-in-law once cancelled the holiday. She’s a raging lunatic. She made her sons take her to K&W Cafeteria. I went home.

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