The Friday Challenge - 11/20/09

It looks like the sports challenge was rather a dud. Maybe I should have given fewer details in the examples, leaving room for some of you to take the basics and run with them. Or, maybe it just wasn't the right challenge at the right time. These things happen. So, let's move onto the new challenge.

"The Second Annual Thanksgiving Challenge"

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Holidays and traditions go together. As with the Halloween challenge, Bruce issued the Thanksgiving challenge to us last year. Now that we're running the challenge again, it gets to become a tradition! And, to show full respect for the tradition, I'm even running Bruce's exact wording for last year's challenge:

Give us your best Thanksgiving Holiday story. It can be factual; it can be fiction. It can be funny, heartwarming, serious, or horrible. Tell us about the time your Cousin Ramapithecus went into the kitchen, said, "Mm-mm, smells delicious!" and ate the giblets and gizzard you'd boiled up for the dog. Tell us about Uncle Slosh, who shows up every year and shouts, "Everyone can relax! I brought the turkey!" and then whips out his personal quart of Wild Turkey, with no clue as to how unfunny or obnoxious that has become. Tell us about the time Auntie Promiscua had just a little too much rosé and proceeded to provide the family with Way Too Much Detailed Information about her personal life, or about that Most Romantic Thanksgiving Ever, when you and your college sweetheart were on your way to meet her folks but instead spent the holiday stuck in a Greyhound bus station during a blizzard, eating cold turkey sandwiches from a vending machine. Whatever your story is, if it has even a vague and tangential connection to the Thanksgiving holiday, we want to hear it.

As usual, we're playing by the semi-official rules of the Friday Challenge. We're playing for your choice from behind Door #3. This is a two week challenge, so you've got until midnight on December 3 to write an entry.

Now, shake off that tryptophan-induced lethargy and get started!