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Last Thanksgiving the conversation was going pretty well on Thanksgiving but mid afternoon the younger people started to get restless. They kept looking at the time and started to talk about leaving the house around 5PM so they could be first in line when the stores opened at 6PM at the local shopping mall.
Our original plan was to have our formal Thanksgiving dinner at 5 PM but many family members were angry about this because all the stores would be opening then. They wanted to move dinner to 4 PM instead. After many tears, and lots of shouting, finally Grandma approved the changed time. By 4:30 we were just getting into the conversation and a group of people announced they wanted to leave immediately so they could get in line at Best Buy.
There went our glorious Turkey Thanksgiving Dinner. Can you relate? (The stores are opening up even an hour earlier this year!)
Last year was actually the first time it came up in my family. My mom invited my sister's boyfriend and his daughter to our Thanksgiving dinner. He needed to drop of the kid with her mom and left after dinner (but before pie) saying he'd be right back. He didn't come back for almost three hours because he decided to stop in WalMart to get some Black Friday shopping done. Needless to say, this did not leave the greatest impression on my parents.
I had forgotten about I'm Retired Now's holiday posts. Now I'm having horrible flashbacks!
Ah, good catch.
But I will address anyway ---
No one uses you without your permission. Last year should be the last time they were ever invited over. That was beyond rude what they did. They should have declined the dinner invitation if showing up for an early sale was that important to them.
To the person, we think shopping for anything on Thanksgiving to be appalling. Thanksgiving is family time, not a time to fight a zillion strangers at the mall to buy some useless doodad. There's something seriously wrong with that.
Nope. For one thing, we do Thanksgiving dinner around 2:00. Not because of shopping, but just because that's when we've always done it.
So if anyone wants to go shopping, they're certainly free to.
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