- Getting lame presents: Some people got game consoles and others got socks. It doesn’t exactly breed familial love.
- The political parties clash: The hotheaded arguing complete with statistics that are most likely inaccurate, overly idealistic teenagers, and that one ever-present, totally racist grandparent.
- The recently divorced relative: Nobody knows what they can speak about and everything is tense.
- When the food sucks: Placing the paper plate upside down in the trash can so nobody can see you didn’t finish your meal is practically a tradition.
- That middle-aged uncle who comes home with a twenty-year-old girlfriend: The young adults her age definitely feel the most awkward.
- Forgetting relatives’ names: Her name might be Becky or Julie, but no one can let that aunt that’s pinching everybody cheeks realize that nobody knows who she is.
- Adults fawning over you: “You were only this tall!” and “You need a haircut!” - we get it, but we’re twenty now and it’s getting uncomfortable.
- People getting drunk: Grandpa’s yelling about Vietnam. The neighbor passed out on the pool table. A cousin found fireworks in the garage and something bad is probably going to happen.
- Relatives asking about your love life: We’re not dating, and no, we’re not happy about it, but you better believe we’re going to say we’re better off alone.
- A child learning that Santa isn’t real: Oops.
