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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 562743" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>The funniest Thanksgiving I recall was when my Dad was still alive and the entire family went to Florida to my parents house, there must have been about 25 of us there. My husband, who my Dad really liked was there, and my brother in law, my older sister's husband, who everyone hated, (he was a real jerk), was there too. My Dad, who was really the very first major difficult child I ever met sat at the head of this long table, us "kids" at the other end. During dinner, my creepy brother in law says really loudly, "hey Dad, how come you treat RE's husband so well and you don't treat me that way." What an idiot to ask my Dad that, my Dad who loved to be 'right' and to be the center of attention. The whole table got silent since we all knew this was going to be AWKWARD!! Everyone was fidgeting while my Dad enjoyed the tense moment and in fact, prolonged it for a long time, while he pushed his plate forward, sat back smiling, folded his arms in front of him, looked at my brother in law, waited a moment for comedic timing and said, <em>"Because you're an A-hole and he's not."</em> For a long moment there was dead silence, no one moved or said anything and then I just couldn't help it, I let out this huge belly laugh, I just couldn't contain myself, and then everyone cracked up, even my idiot brother in law. I can still see my Dad sitting there grinning from ear to ear as if he had been contacted by God to deliver that sage message to the rest of us mere mortals. It was really funny.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 562743, member: 13542"] The funniest Thanksgiving I recall was when my Dad was still alive and the entire family went to Florida to my parents house, there must have been about 25 of us there. My husband, who my Dad really liked was there, and my brother in law, my older sister's husband, who everyone hated, (he was a real jerk), was there too. My Dad, who was really the very first major difficult child I ever met sat at the head of this long table, us "kids" at the other end. During dinner, my creepy brother in law says really loudly, "hey Dad, how come you treat RE's husband so well and you don't treat me that way." What an idiot to ask my Dad that, my Dad who loved to be 'right' and to be the center of attention. The whole table got silent since we all knew this was going to be AWKWARD!! Everyone was fidgeting while my Dad enjoyed the tense moment and in fact, prolonged it for a long time, while he pushed his plate forward, sat back smiling, folded his arms in front of him, looked at my brother in law, waited a moment for comedic timing and said, [I]"Because you're an A-hole and he's not."[/I] For a long moment there was dead silence, no one moved or said anything and then I just couldn't help it, I let out this huge belly laugh, I just couldn't contain myself, and then everyone cracked up, even my idiot brother in law. I can still see my Dad sitting there grinning from ear to ear as if he had been contacted by God to deliver that sage message to the rest of us mere mortals. It was really funny. [/QUOTE]
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