Please don't make our day suck...

For the first time ever, I have to work on Thanksgiving Day. So I go into this with mixed feelings. One part of me doesn’t mind….I mean I made it a lot of years without having to work on the holidays…so I can live with this.


But there will be others who will be quite upset. Some will be missing a nice quiet family dinner, others will be missing a huge family gathering, some will be missing an out-of-town trip, and still others will be missing relatives they haven’t seen in a very long time.

But we press on…..working that day is mandatory…..if you still want to have a job, and no one can afford to lose their job these days.

I can think of gatherings in the past…everyone helped out and brought a dish…and every year many would wonder, “Who ever told Gloria she knew how to make mashed potatoes? She’s brings them every year, and every year they are bland, she doesn’t boil the potatoes long enough, there are lumps in them big enough to choke a horse…” and eventually this becomes a family joke. Or what about the stuffing that is so mushy it oozes liquid. We accept that not everything is perfect.

So we will all be rushing about on Thanksgiving Day, to make sure that all who come in for dinner can have a special day. And we’ll do it with a smile on our face. However, this is one holiday that was meant for all of us. We are all somebody’s kid, or sister or cousin or spouse, etc. You get the picture. If we weren’t there working, you’d have to make other plans. So please don’t make our holiday suck any more than it already does. We’re not robots without emotions or feelings, we’re you. We’re there to make your day. So make ours. Tip us big. After all, what goes around, comes around.