Entitled sister-in-law makes too many food demands for Thanksgiving dinner she's not even hosting, host gets even with leftovers: 'Radio silence after that!'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 28, 2024 2:00 PM EST

It's never fun when you have a guest who acts like she's the host. It takes a particular kind of human being to have that mentality during a family gathering, but if there's any event that attracts this type of personality, it's most certainly Thanksgiving.

Here, we have an entitled sister-in-law who insisted on making a number of Thanksgiving dishes despite the fact that the Redditor expressed a desire to take the lead, as she was the host after all. On top of this tension going into the day, the sister-in-law was difficult once she arrived as well. They ended up only having half an hour to eat because of her shenanigans, so when she left without helping clean the plates, the Redditor couldn't help but notice that she didn't take her precious gravy home with her. That's where the petty revenge comes in!

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more, check out this post about some Friendsgiving drama.

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    give thanks
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    A Thanksgiving Tale In terms of pettiness, welp, this is pretty petty. Yadda, Yadda, Yadda
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    Thanksgiving was held at my house three days ago. It was the first year it has been at my house since my MIL moved to a senior
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    living apartment. I have two sisters in law. One is good-GSIL and one is a bh- BSIL. Well, BSIL actually made all the arrangements about who was to bring what. The
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    only thing we had to make is onions in roasted g garlic cream sauce (me) and apple pie (DH). I said I wanted to make a bread
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    stuffing (MIL makes a french-canadian meat stuffing). I also offered to cook one of the turkeys (I make the broth for the stuffing from a turkey
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    neck) Well, BSIL threw a fit about this (all my work for three days! I guess I'll just wait to see what Stinkypie wants to make (IN HER OWN HOUSE) blah, blah, blah. I
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    told her that there's nothing wrong with two stuffings and I thought to save my niece the trouble of cooking two turkeys.
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    She kept yammering, so I told her to stop stirring the . Radio silence after that!
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    Thanksgiving day, were supposed to eat at two. BSIL and niece arrive at 2:45 with the turkeys,
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    veg, and stock for the gravy. MIL has to leave by four, as she doesn't like to drive in the dark.
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    Because of all the doing around over the making the gravy (I offered to help, BSIL said no one can touch niece's gravy,
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    then they went out to S a b for 25 minutes.) It is really good gravy-one of the ingredients is riced giblets-gives it a nice,
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    rich flavor. We ended up sitting down to eat at 3:30. MIL has to leave at four, and as if it's a signal,
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    BSIL, her bf, niece and her bf MUST LEAVE! they dump their plates (my mother's china) into the sink, without scraping or separating our the silver,
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    then they attacked the leftovers and left. When the last guests left, I took stock-a hella messy kitchen, no mashed potatoes, no turnips, no
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    stuffing (luckily I had made some stuffing muffins that they didn't see) no white meat or carcass-just four turkey
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    legs, a huge bowl of parsnips and...all of the gravy! They were in such a hurry, they neglected to take that good gravy home! Later BSIL asked
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    me if niece had put some aside for her, I replied HAHAHAHA. The next day, I got our a big bowl, put some dark meat in it,
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    sprinkled a stuffing muffin on top then poured about two cups of hot gravy on top. I had to take a picture of it and share my yummy 'Thanksgiving soup" with the fam.
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    TL/DR: SIL plays b games, earns a b prize
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    ChaiHai What I wonder is why you OR your husband didn't fight her on this.
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    IT'S YOUR HOME!!! You deal with the mess, you host, YOU get to cook and stuff the raccoons getting into your trash if that's what pleases you. They should get no say in what YOU cook in YOUR kitchen.
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    Both you and your husband need to present an united front on this.
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    Tag Tea... I would have offered to drive MIL's car to take her home and have your husband
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    follow to give you a ride back so dinner wouldn't have been rushed, at least for you, DH, and MIL. Good riddance to the others though.
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