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I hope everybody here has a safe and happy Thanksgiving and that you are able to spend some wonderful time with your families.

Nah... GFY, get drunk and watch football.

I stay in DC for Thanksgiving. I'm in GR from Christmas through New Year's anyway so I don't feel the need to pay to fight holiday traffic.

One place I'm glad I'm not is on 95 right now.

Screw_Michigan wrote:I stay in DC for Thanksgiving. I'm in GR from Christmas through New Year's anyway so I don't feel the need to pay to fight holiday traffic.

One place I'm glad I'm not is on 95 right now.

No shit. We drove up to Irvine (~60 miles each way) at about 8:00 last night to pick up the kids. There was very little traffic, but I heard that the southbound I5 was a parking lot a few hours earlier. I guess we timed it right.

Driving 20 miles to the bro-in law's in Escondido once I get the bird cooked.

Screw_Michigan wrote:I stay in DC for Thanksgiving. I'm in GR from Christmas through New Year's anyway so I don't feel the need to pay to fight holiday traffic.

One place I'm glad I'm not is on 95 right now.

Given my experiences with I-95, that sentiment could apply to any day of the year.

And Happy Turkey Day fuckos.

there is neve ra good time to be on I-95 from DC up to about new haven, ct. the absolute shittiest drive on the planet.

smackaholic wrote:there is neve ra good time to be on I-95 from DC up to about new haven, ct. the absolute shittiest drive on the planet.

^^^^ Never driven US95 through Nevada.

You'll be begging for a traffic jam after a few hours.

Mikey wrote:I hope everybody here has a safe and happy Thanksgiving and that you are able to spend some wonderful time with your families.

Nah... GFY, get drunk and watch football.

Can't we do both?

Daughter drove 12 hours from NM to be home, sis drove 5 hours up from Tulsa, mother-in-law drove 8 minutes up from Gladstone. Wifey did her customary job of providing a fabulous spread and I obliged by stuffing myself until I could barely get up out my chair. Tough work, that.

After dinner we all went over to visit my 89 year old mom in the nursing home, which normally depresses the hell out of me. But she was surprisingly alert and almost lucid, so that was nice as well.

As a bonus, I got to visit my 87 year old aunt (mom's younger sister) who now lives right across the hall. Talk about serendipity, that's unreal. I didn't even know she had been moved there until today when sis told me. This woman looked after me some as a kid and was good to me.

twas a good day.

the only thing more depressing than living one of those warehouses for the nearly dead is having your little sister in the same joint across the hall.

i hope to live a long reasonably healthy life somewhere close to that many years.....and then stroke right the fukk out, in bed, preferably with a 23 year old chick.

smackaholic wrote:the only thing more depressing than living one of those warehouses for the nearly dead is having your little sister in the same joint across the hall.

I don't see it that way and I don't believe they do either. I think it's kinda sweet. These two grew up together, born and raised in a Kansas farmhouse that didn't have electricity or running water. Now maybe they will spend their last bit of time, together again.

I don't think anyone really knows how they'd feel if the time comes when they are placed in a situation like that. Yeah, it's depressing for children to see their parents there, but from what I've seen, at least from my mother, is that they don't feel sorry for themselves. She still has the will to live and take what comfort and satisfaction she can... she can't hear very well and talking is a struggle, but the way her eyes lit up when her family came to visit her... makes it all worthwhile I reckon.

War Wagon wrote:

smackaholic wrote:the only thing more depressing than living one of those warehouses for the nearly dead is having your little sister in the same joint across the hall.

I don't see it that way and I don't believe they do either. I think it's kinda sweet. These two grew up together, born and raised in a Kansas farmhouse that didn't have electricity or running water. Now maybe they will spend their last bit of time, together again.

I don't think anyone really knows how they'd feel if the time comes when they are placed in a situation like that. Yeah, it's depressing for children to see their parents there, but from what I've seen, at least from my mother, is that they don't feel sorry for themselves. She still has the will to live and take what comfort and satisfaction she can... she can't hear very well and talking is a struggle, but the way her eyes lit up when her family came to visit her... makes it all worthwhile I reckon.

well, sounds as if she still has a few marbles to play with, so maybe she's still got some quality of life left. i just associate rest homes with my grandma's last few years. she made it to about 95, but, to be honest with you, there wasn't a day of it past maybe 88 or so that was worth living...for her or any of her family.

good luck with mom and your aunt. hope they had a nice thanksgiving.

I truly wish everyone here and I mean everyone had an enjoyable day with family and/or friends. I am one who gives thankls that we live in a time and place of freedom and bounty.
Now back to our regular squabbling, and general all around bullshit.

smackaholic wrote:i just associate rest homes with my grandma's last few years. she made it to about 95, but, to be honest with you, there wasn't a day of it past maybe 88 or so that was worth living...for her or any of her family.

And I'll be honest with you. I have felt and thought the same way. The only thing that has depressed me more in the last 5 years than visiting my mom in a nursing home is not visiting my mom in a nursing home. Guilt, shame, remorse... because I haven't visited as often as I could or should.

And the reason I haven't? Because I'm a selfish child more concerned with how it makes me feel to see her unable to help herself than I am to worry about how she feels to see her son.

I hope I have learned my lesson. It's not about me, and it damn sure isn't my place to judge if a life is worth living or not.

RACK the visit, Wagon!

It's true that even a very short visit means SO much to an elderly, debilitated, or perpetually drooling person.

But just sack up and make the next one a PET, mmmkay?

Nobody will have anything derogatory to say.

You know us.

You are a disturbed person, 'tart.

you're going to hell, 'tart. just sayin'. and i don't care how strongly you believe in any of your imaginary fliends.