Happy Thanksgiving: 11 Questions We Are Hoping Nobody Asks Us This Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time of family, food, and fun, but somewhere between the time guests hit the door and they sit down to feast on dinner, the holiday turns into a time of interrogation.

Suddenly, friends and family you don’t see all that often throughout the year are trying to play catch up — unfortunately they tend to do so in the most intrusive way: inappropriate and awkward questions.

We know they don’t mean any harm — most times — but we still hate this part of Turkey day. Here are 11 questions we hope nobody asks us this Thanksgiving.

WHEN ARE YOU GETTING MARRIED?
This is one of those questions that’s annoying anytime of the year, but asking when you’re going to get married during the holidays just seems to hit an extra nerve.

No one enjoys being the only party of one among a slew of couples, which is why it’s particularly annoying for people to ask about your marital plan as if you’re choosing not to walk down the aisle.




WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE A BABY?
Family planning is not a discussion that should occur outside of the two people who will be having said baby.

It’s beyond inappropriate to intrusively ask when someone is going to have a baby, not knowing the status of their relationship, finances, or fertility. If no one volunteers info on baby-making, it shouldn’t be brought up.





WHAT’S GOING ON WITH YOUR HAIR?
When family hasn’t seen you in a while and you have a new look, they tend not to know how to react.

Instead of not acknowledging that you now have a TWA (teeny weeny afro), dyed your hair bright red, or are growing out dreads when they don’t like the style, they tend to ask “what’s going on with your hair,” to sound like they’re being open-minded when that’s really a hint that they don’t like whatever’s going on.

DID YOU GAIN SOME WEIGHT?
If it looks like we gained weight, we probably did. And yes, we’re aware of it.

WHY DON’T YOU VISIT MORE OFTEN?
Ahh the holiday guilt trip. It’s never enough that you’re home now.

Family members want to know why you didn’t return for Ray Ray’s baptism last month, where were you on Easter Sunday, and whether you forgot to RSVP for the christening of cousin Gi Gi’s fifth baby in two weeks.

HOW’S YOUR EX?
He’s our ex! We don’t care how he’s doing! It doesn’t matter how he’s doing! We don’t want to talk about how he’s doing! The internal retort to this question is always, if you’re so worried about him, why don’t you call him?, but saying that would be rude — like their question.

DID YOU FIND A JOB YET?
Again — not dinnertime conversation. And truthfully, not a question anyone should ask unless they have job leads for you. It tends to just make a person feel bad for being unemployed.













WHEN ARE YOU GOING BACK TO SCHOOL?
This is for the college kids. When you’re in school, the last thing you want to think about is when you’re going back.

You come home for the holidays because you get home-cooked meals, private showers, and a bed bigger than Twin XL, don’t remind us of how little time we have left to enjoy what we didn’t even realize was the good life.

ARE YOU GOING BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING WITH ME?
Hell no! and please don’t try to guilt trip us into this.

WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?
Are you an introvert surrounded by a loud boisterous family and every time they take a break from yapping and see you sitting quietly, do they ask, “what’s wrong with you?” Um nothing.

WHAT DID YOU COOK?
Sometimes the reason this question gets weird is our own bad. If you’re not so confident in your culinary skills, you may not want the world to know you’re the one who made the runny mac n’ cheese — or brought the store-bought pie. There’s also a chance you showed up empty handed and you know you’re about to get put on blast for poor etiquette.


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