No fights but
Posted By: sm on 2008-12-04
In Reply to: Any family fights over thanksgiving - MTinMT
my husband's family (mainly MIL) sure does know how to strike a nerve and I can see how one could easily break out. More or less everyone makes an effort to keep their distance from her. Dinner is one thing, spending the entire weekend together is another. The kids split off to visit each other at their own homes with their kids and leave the parent's out.
My family is all about family over the holidays so no fights. I think it's understood by everyone that if you don't like it, you don't have to participate but it's one of the few times a year that everyone can get together and put their past feelings aside and get along. We were taught that from a young age.
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I do get the part about the fights sometimes
guess it just doesn't get that out of hand in our house, and I guess in your mind it is not out of hand so I glad that works for you. I just have a hard time imagining my SIL and niece acting the way she describes. We do joke that they have been fighting since she was born and will fight till death. We joke that my SIL will be 95 and in a nursing home and when her DD comes to visit it will be like "Good God Lauren, is that the only dress you could find to wear? LOL
Any family fights over thanksgiving
listening to the radio this morning and they were talking about family getting into fights over Thanksgiving and Christmas...my family or my DH's have never gotten into any fights over the holidays .. but I have friends who always gets into some disagreement .. I have a EX SIL who's family always fight .. infact they think our family is so boring because we get along so well..
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TROUTDALE, Ore. -- A naked man fled the home he broke into Tuesday morning after the woman who lives there attacked his genitals, police said.
Officers arrested Michael D!ck, 46, of Gresham, on charges of burglary, harassment and private indecency.
Officials with the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said D!ck, who was completely naked, entered the house through an unlocked sliding door at about 6:30 a.m. and pushed the 88-year-old woman face-first into a chair.
The victim was definitely shaken up, but luckily she is OK and unharmed. She said an old news story she saw years ago helped her defend herself.
She said she was picking up some logs for her wood stove, when all of a sudden a completely naked stranger walked in through her sliding glass door.
“I thought it was somebody I knew, but then seeing him without clothing, you know, it’s nobody I knew,” Jennifer said.
Jennifer said the man didn’t say a word. He just followed her around the room and kept pushing himself against her.
Police said he shoved her face-first into a chair, but before he could make another move, she fought back.
“I kept saying, 'No, no, no!' And then I said, 'Holy mother!' And then I said, 'God.' And then he stopped and that’s when I reached around and grabbed him,” Jennifer said.
In that moment, she said she flashed back to an old news story about a woman facing a similar intruder. She remembered that woman survived by grabbing the man’s testicles.
The man tore free, ran out the door, jumped in his car and drove away, deputies said.
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