The Adventures of the Holmes Club

Chapter 13: Pilgrims, Indians, Football Fans, and Crazy Shoppers

***Alina***

So, what do I do for Thanksgiving? Basically I eat turkey, like any normal American, then I try not to fall asleep from the amount of food I've eaten and my distant relatives' boring stories about work or school or whatever they do.

I would honestly rather be at school right now. Oh, wait, no, I wouldn't.

***Max***

Yeah, I guess Thanksgiving at my house is fun. We eat all the classic Thanksgiving foods, talk, watch movies, and talk some more until almost everybody passes out around midnight. Then people wake up and try to drive home without falling asleep at the wheel.

***Sophie***

I can't remember what I do on Thanksgiving. I'm too tired from staying up until three in the morning and all that food I ate.

***Louis***

Yeah, Thanksgiving is fun, I guess. Turkey, family, arguing, whatever.

***Nadia***

I pretty much spent Thanksgiving trying to get my friends to text me back, and hiding in the kitchen stealing pie before dinner.

***Penny***

There are some Thanksgiving things I simply don't understand.

1. Yams. Honestly, if you have to put marshmallows on them to make the yams taste good, you should just stop trying.

2. Pie. It's some food that's already disgusting, mixed with a pound of sugar and spices or whatever else, inside the most disgusting crust ever, baked for an hour and a half, then every body guzzles down ix pounds of it cover in whipped cream. The only good part I can see here is the whipped cream. 

3. Black Friday. This in itself does make pretty good sense (the Christmas season really should start the day after Thanksgiving). However, some stores have started having their "Black Friday" sales start on Thanksgiving(and you don't even want to get me started on the After Christmas Sales that start on Christmas). 

This is a big problem for my family, because we always go to my aunt's house. Our most popular pastime, after eating, comparing our different parishes, and watching Planes, Trains, and Automobiles or A Christmas Story, is either looking at the newspaper for funny Black Friday deals, or actually going to the store to watch people in line, or scrambling for that last life-size Elsa doll that sings "Let It Go" nonstop until you hit it with a chainsaw or sledgehammer (or just throw it out of a car going eighty miles an hour).

So, my aunt and uncle just moved into a new house, so that's where we went for Thanksgiving. Around 6:30 (half an hour after the Black Friday sales started) my uncle found a TV in the newspaper identical to the one he already has, but half the price. He decided to go and buy it.

We all told him he was crazy, and the TVs would all be gone, but he went anyway. 

When we left the house at 11, he still wasn't back. He didn't get the TV.

I had a point, somewhere I was going with this. Oh, right, so there are four types of people on Thanksgiving. 

Pilgrims - they cook turkey, mashed potatoes, and pies. 

Indians - they like to spend their time outside, shucking corn, playing with the pets, you name it.

Football Fans - They don't care about anything but if their team is winning.

Crazy Shoppers - they don't care about Thanksgiving at all, they just care about the day after Thanksgiving. They  spend the whole day camped outside whatever store they can get the most deals.