Other than watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on the television my family does not have any other Thanksgiving Day traditions. There was a short time when I was in college back in Southern Missouri where my sister and I did have one.
For two years it was the Alcoser sister's transition to go out for dim sum on Thanksgiving Day. It was a fun tradition that involved me driving across the state to visit her and going out on Thanksgiving; after we watched the parade of course. Prior to this she had come to my place exactly once.
That year I cooked a semi traditional Thanksgiving meal. We had turkey, a vegetable and a pumpkin cake. I know pie would have been more traditional but we had cake and it was excellent. After that my sister declared that all the work I put into making that meal was too much bother for just the two of us.
However, I think the real reason she decided that I would come to her and we would go out was due to my dishwasher catching on fire after dinner. At the time I still lived in student housing and the dishwasher in my apartment was probably from the late 1990s or early 2000s.
Right was we were getting ready to head out to go for a walk; which you can do on
Thanksgiving in the south. When my sister looked over and saw smoke rising out of the turned off dishwasher. She threw open the door to see that the bottom coil was on fire. While she threw baking soda onto the fire I threw the breaker to the dishwasher to keep the fire from restarting.
Thankfully nothing was damaged and did not restart on fire after its power was cut. The dishwasher did get replaced by a different and less flammable old dishwasher. Making that Thanksgiving the one and only time that my sister has ever come to my apartment for a holiday. Even though I now have a much more reliable dishwasher.
