It seems that not a single get-together of any kind - whether it's a Holiday dinner or poker night can occur without absolute hilarity in my family! Well, this Thanksgiving dinner wasn't any different...except strange might be a good descriptive word. First of all, we are eating on the Texas Hold 'Em poker table which seats six covered with a plastic cover and a sheet...second of all, we spend the first 10 minutes passing around dishes until our food gets cold (most of which I didn't even want any of)...and third of all, we had enough food to feed 2 blocks on my Mother's street for only six people.
By the way, my "special" cornbread was fierce! Oh, that was the first craziness of the day...it took four of us to prepare it. I'm following Charlie's directions, Diva's waiting with a spoon to mix it all together, I'm trying to break into the cheese package which required a secret code, Mom's kibitzing on the side, Leroy's lubing up the pan and finally I'm able to pour the batter while Mom keeps banging the pan on the table to level it. Ingredients: made from scratch mix, 1 can of cream corn, 3 diced jalapenos and about a pound of fancy grated "Mexican" cheese. Not only was it the moistest (is that a word?) cornbread I've ever had, but the best tasting!
Ok, back to my story. So we finish passing bowls and then suddenly Leroy says "I don't have any room for the MEAT!" We all look down and sure nuff (now that's just plain country), she doesn't! Her plate's so piled up with everything from mashed taters (country again) to sweet taters (ditto) to green beans, stuffing, something weird Charlie made and rolls (you thought I was gonna say collard greens and fat back, didn't ya) that she didn't even have room for the main course - turkey and ham! She then adds "...and I'm not even hungry!" I look down the table at her plate and lost it! I'm now laughing hysterically which sets Leroy off because we just fuel each other's fire when it comes to laughing...now everyone else is busting out laughing all because Leroy's a pig! Now, this can't just last a minute or two...nooooo, because, like I said before, we fuel each other's fire - so we're carrying on for about 10 minutes (food's completely cold by now). Finally, we start to actually EAT Thanksgiving dinner. Well, it wasn't long before food's flying and someone's getting their elbows in it which sets off another bout of hysteria from myself and Leroy...Tila Tequila and Diva join in, as well. I did something that had Diva laughing for about another 10 minutes and then come some of the old familiar topics mixed with a few new ones which seem to be unable to refrain from rearing their ugly heads at any "social gathering" - e.g. belches, farts, a thing growing in Diva's ear which she wanted everyone to feel, hemorroids, something about a boil on someone's butt and a pimple on Charlie's, pubic hair pins which we decided should be called poobie pins, pubic hair accessories (that was my idea), Mom explaining to Diva (who's 17) the difference between bobbie pins and hair pins to which I added that she needed to add hat pins and safety pins, something about mutton chops, Elvis sideburns, nose hair, using facial hair as earmuffs and something about a werewolf. Seems we have a hair thing going for some odd reason.
It was a laugh out loud Thanksgiving dinner and I wouldn't have it any other way! I hope everyone had a warm and happy Thanksgiving! Good night, Gracie..........
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