Thanksgiving

Today was an OK day, I woke up around 10:00am. Took a shower, logged on here to check on some things. While checking on things, my grandmother called. She needed a ride up to lapeer to drop her off for my uncle to pick her up so they could go back to her house. The dad went along with it, and left to go wherever she needed her. Well, an hour passed, and the mom got increasingly impatient with every minute the dad wasn’t home. Eventually, she decided she wasn’t going to the uncle’s house.

Around 12:00pm, the dad arrived home. He told stories of horrors on the part of the road leading into lapeer. It was decided that we would not be going to the uncle’s house, and we would just be visiting the grandmother’s house in pontiac.

We left minutes after. We brought along some greenbean caserole. We bring the same thing every year. Prior to her death, my aunt debby would bring one pot, and we would bring another. Now, we bring two pots.

When we got there, just about everyone was there, except for my cousin jimmy. I’m not sure why he and his wife leah weren’t there, but they weren’t. Despite their absence, there still weren’t any places to sit, and i was forced to stand around until the next person got up. That’s how we usually do holidays. Just a constant game of musical chairs, all participants waiting for the big, leather chair to free up.

After a few minutes, dinner was ready. I had some potatoes, green bean caserole, turkey, stuffing, and a roll. It was all good. I was one of the few who ate on the couch, because all table spaces were taken.

During dinner, I heard an argument about wallmart break out in the dining room. You see, some of our relatives from down south came up for the holiday. When they moved down there, they became absolute wallmart fanatics. Much the same way some arabs are islam fanatics, some people from the south are wallmart fanatics.

Well, the argument broke out between some of us northern anti-wallmarters, and the southern wallmartists. I didn’t catch all of it, but the mom was part of the anti-wallmart movement, and the relatives from the south just went on and on about availability of everything, and low prices, while the mom just went on and on about mistreated workers.

I don’t know how i feel about it. I think people should have the right to shop where they want, but wallmart does under-price a lot of their goods. The anti-wallmart movement is pretty big. Why can’t the anti-wallmart people just not shop there? Nobody’s forcing them to.

It’s kinda like webhosting companies who drastically oversell these ridiculously high-quota packages for only $5/month. While these companies do provide a service dirt-cheap, their service is also of a poor quality, and they take business away from stable companies who do provide a good quality of service. Then again, I’m not sure how low-qual the products at wallmart are. I don’t think they could be that good.

The argument ended after just a couple minutes.

After dinner, we all sat around and engaged in a thanksgiving tradition; watching the detroit lions get their asses kicked by whatever team they have to play. My cousin Jason was pretty upset. I’m not sure why he was so suprised the lions were losing so badly, they’ve been terrible for years. I found the whole game pretty funny. The lions went without scoring for the first 3 quarters of the game, but they did manage to score in the middle of the fourth quarter. The final score was 27 – 7.

Had a chat with grandma after dinner. Told her about the town breaking my bike. She is just another entry on the list of people who think I should sue the town. Too bad I can’t afford a lawyer.

We left around 4:15, and got home around 5:00. After getting home, we called over to luke’s and told him we wouldn’t be able to make it out there. We also discussed nana’s need for her dogs to be taken inside. The dad volunteered for that task, and left to let the dog back inside.

There’s thanksgiving. Woo.