SayWhatClub Online Voices December 2009
Christmas Story
Janet Lansford
Copyright 2009
A couple years ago, my sisters and I were at my dad's house for Christmas. My father's wife and her ex-brother-in-law were in the kitchen working on carving the turkey. She apparently had had too many, and she was trying to tell her ex-brother-in-law how to carve the turkey.
In the meantime, my older sister went in the kitchen to make the gravy. I went in the kitchen to see what the hold up was and to see if I could be of help. I couldn't help but see the frustration on the ex-brother-in-law's face and dad's wife going on and on about this darn turkey. After the ex-brother-in-law finished carving the turkey, it was apparent that he did not get much meat off the "big 21-pound turkey". My dad's wife blurted out, "Well I be darn if the store did not rip me off and leave out the breast part."
My sister and I had to leave the kitchen quickly and ran outside laughing as hard as we could. Then we went back in and they were still arguing over it. My older sister said, "Have you tried to turn it over?" and our dad's wife said, "No use. I got ripped off." It was all we could do to contain ourselves.
Finally, my sister went over to the ex-brother-in-law and said, "Let me look at this." She turned it over and there was the breast, bare as it could be. All you could see was the white meat! I wish I had a picture. To this day we talk about the time our dad's wife had one too many and thought she got ripped off at the store, thinking there was no breast on a 21-pound turkey. You had to be there to hear this and see it.