You haven't heard from your parents in weeks and you call them to see if you are welcome home for Thanksgiving and they hang up on you. You decide that you have family enough with two bulldogs now so you purchase a small turkey and bake it yourself. It turns out beautiful and you leave it on the kitchen table to cool a little before dinner. Somehow the turkey has jumped off the table and onto the floor and both bulldogs are having their feast without you. You slide on the greasy floor and fall on your behind spraining something.
Thanksgiving is spent at the emergency room of a local hospital getting x-rays.
You have baked the turkey and the dressing only to discover while cleaning the kitchen that the box of stuffing mix you purchased is still on the shelf but the box of those little liver doggie treats is empty. All the fast food restaurants and the grocery stores are closed for the holiday and you and your bulldogs settle for toasted cheese sandwiches for dinner. And the tears running down your cheeks are tears of joy. . Your faithful companions are slowing down. Family and friends are now making short visits to your home.