Family get togethers can be hectic and everyone plays their part. Here is your guide for a little laughter, when you realize your family isn’t the only crazy one.
The Politics Know-It-All: This is the person that the moment politics is even alluded to, takes it as their opportunity to inform all of you about the side you should be on and continues to talk with blatant disregard to the obvious eye rolls and attempts to move the conversation forward.
The Fixer: No matter the conversation, whether it be politics or the latest family screw-up, this is the one who continually tries to smooth everything over and pretends as though everything is okay, regardless of how tense the situation has become.
The Grandma: This is the kind woman who just wants to know about everything that’s been going on in all of your lives and feed you as much as she possibly can, even when you’re stomach is full … she still has 84 more courses to serve you.
The Stranger: There’s always one. This is the person that someone brings home, often a new significant other, that doesn’t know how to handle themselves in your family dynamic. Eventually, they will either figure it out or not and your family with either love them or hate them. There’s no doubt that they’ll have to take some pestering along the way.
The Texter: This person needs no explanation. They’re the one who uses their phone as an escape from whatever family drama is occurring and is usually the first one to leave at the end of the night. They make minimal conversation, avoid eye contact and are oblivious to the conversation occurring around them.
The Quiet One: They stay quiet and make absolute minimal conversation. They avoid conversation so that they do not have to be pestered and/or do not have to be dragged into the family drama. They are polite and most everyone likes them, but they tend to take some pestering for being so quiet.
The Teenager: This is the person who somehow always becomes the go to talk of the night. What are your plans for the future? How’s school? Who are you friends with nowadays? It’s like when it gets too tense or people run out of things to talk about, this person’s life is their go to. This is the teenager’s least favorite part of Thanksgiving. All they want to do is eat and somehow they get roped into talking about how crappy their high school life is.
The Shamer: This is the person who likely has made the most mistakes out of everyone at the table, but somehow ends up tearing into all of you for how you don’t have a boyfriend, or you changed majors, or whatever it may be.
The Cook: No one can be mad at this one because they are the royalty of the evening. It’s always the same person, every year, because anyone else who attempts to cook always screws something up and it’s “not the same.”
The Normal One: That’s it, this one is just normal. They’re the one everyone loves, irregardless of what role they play in the family drama. They get pulled into a million different directions because they are so nonchalant and indifferent to each argument that everyone always thinks they can win them over, but they never can.
