Thanksgiving Break!!

This Thanksgiving break was a little different than most I have had in the past.  In recent years, I have always made to sure to request off on the specific days that my families were planning on having our Thanksgiving celebrations.  My parents are divorced and one is remarried, so I usually have at least to celebrations to attend.  This year, however, I was not allowed to request off for those days and I ended up having to work the night before and on Thanksgiving Day.  During my shift on Thanksgiving I ended up having a range of emotions I really didn't expect from a day of work.  I witnessed the lazy parents who didn't want to cook or really celebrate at all and were just going through the motions.  I witnessed the traveling family whose celebration was not until Friday, and were so happy that they could find a restaurant open.  Finally however, I saw something that quite depressed me.  I witnessed the lonely old woman who had no one to celebrate with.  She ate alone on Thanksgiving.  This sent me into an extremely introspective spiral of thought, and this continued all the way to my mother's house where I was preparing to have dinner.  I ended up being almost an hour late, and I was about to submit that this was the worst holiday ever, when I opened the door to enter, I startled my uncle.  My uncle, a portly fellow, jumped out of his chair, and upon his return from the heavens he broke his chair and went crashing to the floor.  I was in tears from laughing.