Family Fails to Wake Daughter Up for Thanksgiving Dinner So Start Eating Without Her, They Blame Her, Claiming They ‘Sent Her Texts,’ Ruining the Holiday For Her

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Dec 2, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Though we're passed the hump of our precious turkey holiday, the post-Thanksgiving family stories never fail to keep us engaged after the fact. Whether it's your Aunt Sarah's bashful and brazen personal questions to your boyfriend, or your Uncle Victor's terrible impression of Jerry Seinfeld, there's always something to debrief and gossip about. If there's one thing the holidays are good for, it's our ability to indulge in food and family drama. 

This brings us to the Reddit thread. In this story, the original poster (OP) is complaining about her indolent sister. Her sister has apparently been in her room all day on Thanksgiving. Despite multiple attempts at alerting her of the impending dinner, she stayed in her room. She, of course, misses the dinner, much to her despair. My only question is, why didn't they just walk in? 

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  • 01
    7pm-8pm: Guests arrive. She is nowhere to be seen. Everyone is busy doing something. Cooking, setting the table, socializing. Still we send reminders: People are here. Eating soon. Dinner is almost ready. Dinner is on the table now. People are on the table now. We are eating. She is not answering or otherwise communicating with with us.
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    r/AITAH ⚫ 7 hr. ago Ok-Efficiency-2592 AITA We started eating Thanksgiving dinner without my sister.
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  • 03
    1pm: We warn her guests will arrive at 7 and to please get ready and be out of her room. 1-7pm: We send sporadic reminders, knock on her door, remind her she has X amount of hours left, constant checking-in.
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    7pm-8pm: Guests arrive. She is nowhere to be seen. Everyone is busy doing something. Cooking, setting the table, socializing. Still we send reminders: People are here. Eating soon. Dinner is almost ready. Dinner is on the table now. People are on the table now. We are eating. She is not answering or otherwise communicating with with us.
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  • 05
    8:24pm (exact timestamp from a photo I took): We start eating. 10 mins later she comes down ped we started without her, nearly an hour and a half after we told her to be ready, and with constant reminders and warnings leading up to dinner.
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  • 06
    So, are we the a_h_les? Mind you there were 11 people total, with two sides of the family seeing each other for the first time in years, plus a newborn baby who was mercifully asleep right when the food was coming out hot. Everything was chaotic and people were hungry.
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    EDIT: just because a few people were asking, this woman is 24. NEET. Lives at home with parents.
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    Secret_Sister_Sa... ΝΤΑ Sister is ridiculous 7h ago
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    Turmeric Ping • 7h ago • If I pulled that kind of crop when i was a kid, I'd have been sent right back to my room, not seated at the table.
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    Just somebody_... 7h ago. Stop enabling entitlement. This shouldn't even be a question, she's an entitled princess and no one should be putting up with that nonsense. ΝΤΑ
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    adjudicateu 6h ago • Why are you constantly reminding her? No adult should need to be reminded that many times what time dinner is. NTA. Stop babysitting her. Tell her once 'dinner is at X' and then have dinner at 'x'. If this 'reminding' behavior is
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    normal, it needs to stop across all categories.
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    Alarming_Reply... 7h ago • How old is your sister? 14? ΝΤΑ
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    definitelytheA •5h ago • After years of my adult daughter turning up late for holiday meals, telling her dinner would be an hour or two before I actually planned to serve, oh (!), and the time she told me she was coming in the morning to help cook, and showing
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    up two hours after dinner was to be served, I had enough. Especially since the last instance ended up with a nearly inedible turkey. Next holiday, I gave the correct hour, and said we would be eating at that time. And we did.
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    Cue daughter showing up late enough that leftovers. were packed up, and dishes were done. The shocked face when I greeted her warmly and told her she could help herself to the leftovers as long as she cleaned up her mess... gold!
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  • 17
    Her brothers and I didn't even bother to shut off the Di Hard marathon. We let her eat alone.
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  • 18
    amyloulie 7h ago • NTA. What an entitled brat, turns up late and without having lifted a finger and still has the nerve to be annoyed.
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    Baker_knitter1120 • 6h ago • NTA. Your sister is a drama queen. Too used to being babied with all your constant reminders. She should be helping with the preparations.
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    Are your parents still with you? Sorry i had to ask coz OP did not mention anything about your parents being in the same house.
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    billdogg7246.5h ago • We host most holidays for my wife's family because we have the room, and can better afford the costs. I was raised to be on time, which actually means 15-30 minutes early to help the hosts. We've been married 23 years. The first few years
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    we'd wait, much to the detriment of the food. Then we tried telling them we were eating at least 2 hours before we actually planned on sitting down. That worked a couple times.
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  • 23
    About 4 years ago I said f it. We told them all when dinner would be served, and that if they were late, too bad. More than once, people would arrive after things had been cleaned up and put away. Oh well! I guess you're not eating! Thanks for coming!
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  • 24
    This thanksgiving, EVERYONE was on time!!!
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    Ok_Childhood_9... • 7h ago • The only reason I would consider you and the rest of your family AHs is for giving her so many reminders. She's a big girl. Tell her when dinner is once, and then she can decide whether it's worth it for her to grace you with her presence. Ignore
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    her pouting and stop letting her get away with such childish behavior.
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