"My Great-Grandmother Died At The Table": People Shared Their Thanksgiving Horror Stories, And Holyyyyy Crappppp

20. "My parent and grandma had plans to spell to a edifice past year, but my sister convinced them to spell determination other astatine the past minute. Of course, this means nary reservations, but my sister is convinced that it'll beryllium fine, and they mightiness conscionable person to hold a fewer minutes for a table. I unrecorded successful different state, truthful I get to acquisition each of this from a distance. They ended up sitting astatine the barroom portion waiting for a table, having a fewer drinks and appetizers. After the 2nd circular of martinis, my parent looks implicit and my grandma is leaning backmost successful her chair, wholly limp and unresponsive. Everyone freaks out, paramedics are called, and grandma is rushed to the ER."

"I'm 1,200 miles distant erstwhile my parent calls to archer maine what happened. At this point, grandma is astatine the ER, inactive unresponsive, with brainsick debased humor unit and a precocious bosom rate. I'm acceptable to publication level tickets and unreserved to the airdrome erstwhile ma calls back, 'Don't worry, everything's OK, your grandma conscionable got drunk.' Her humor trial came backmost wholly mean but with a BAC of 0.24 (three times the ineligible limit). She was awake now, truthful I got to speech to her, and she was crying, 'I'm truthful sorry, I've ruined Thanksgiving.' I assured her that she hadn't ruined Thanksgiving and that everyone was conscionable blessed she was okay.

So my grandma is 90 years old, astir 4'8", 100lbs. She hadn't eaten thing each time due to the fact that she knew they were having a large meal that night. She besides ordered different martini portion nary 1 was looking, truthful the 2nd martini was really her third. This turned into the cleanable tempest of truly drunk grandma."

—dalgeek

24. "When I was 16, I got a weed brownie. I had ne'er done edibles before, truthful I was ace excited. I decided to devour it earlier Thanksgiving truthful I could person a bully precocious and bask each the bully food. He warned maine that it was beardown and advised maine to devour lone fractional of it. I ate fractional of it, and aft similar 15 minutes, I wasn't feeling anything, truthful I decided to devour the different fractional too. I didn't cognize that with edibles it takes a portion to footwear successful and isn't instant similar smoking."

"By the clip meal came by, I was very stoned, similar excessively overmuch for my ain comfort. My aunt and uncle were besides there, on with my small cousin, who was astir 4 years aged astatine the time. I was truthful stoned that I could not look astatine anyone, truthful I conscionable awkwardly stared astatine my nutrient and gave one-word answers erstwhile my household tried to speech to me. It made things incredibly uncomfortable for everyone.

After astir 20 minutes, I could not instrumentality it anymore, truthful I conscionable picked up my sheet and went downstairs to my room. My ma followed maine and wanted to cognize what the hellhole was incorrect with me. I admitted to her that I ate a weed brownie and was incredibly stoned and asked if she could conscionable permission maine unsocial due to the fact that I was excessively precocious to woody with things close now. She was chill astir it and waited until I came down to outcry astatine maine astir ruining Thanksgiving dinner."

—-eDgAR-

26. "My great-grandmother died astatine the array close arsenic we were bowing our heads to commune connected Thanksgiving. She had been dilatory dwindling successful health, truthful the full household gathered together, figuring it was her past Thanksgiving. Little did we cognize however close we were. Her kids, their kids, and their kids' kids, household she hasn't seen successful years, astir 20 radical each gathered around, with her pushed up successful her recliner. Food is acceptable connected the table, and we bow our heads to commune (she was devoutly religious) earlier we excavation in. As we rise our heads and unfastened our eyes, we find large grandma slumped over, lingua lolling out, dead. As idiosyncratic started compressions and different idiosyncratic called an ambulance, my youngest relative dug into her repast wholly unaffected by the dormant body. Anyway, a bully representation for Thanksgiving each year."

—Holyitzpapalotl