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When I was 11 it was my 1st time ever helping cooking and my friend Britt dared me to pick up the turkey and dance with it. When my mom left the kitchen, I grabbed the turkey and started doing a waltz dance with it! Then, as I was doing the last part of the dance, my cute next door neighbor walked in the kitchen and it scared me so much that I threw the turkey at him...He was not happy and he told everyone at school.

Gemma, 14, Florida

One year my mom forgot some ingredient in her dinner rolls so they were hard as rocks. When we found this out, my dad and my brothers started to play baseball with the rolls in the dining room. It was hilarious.

Amanda, 14, Kansas

My great grandfather brought a live chicken into the dining room and let it go. It jumped on my pop's head. I was laughing but everyone else was frowning. It was hilarious.

Hayley,13, Washington

A funny memory was when we were at my aunt's house. After we ate our supper, we went into the basement. My aunt was cleaning up and putting all the left over food in the garbage disposal forgetting that the plumbing was not fixed yet! Meanwhile, we were playing ping-pong by the sink. All of a sudden I heard a water flowing sound. We all looked at the sink and all the leftover turkey was coming out of the sink! We all were screaming. My aunt had just moved in and didn't have the grass in yet. It was raining that day and the yard was all muck. My uncles had to go out with bags on their shoes and couldn't figure out what the problem was. The sink was really overflowing now. Then it started raining again! It was really a disaster.

Tara, 10, USA

The most embarrassing Thanksgiving memory HAS to be the time last year when my social studies class had a Thanksgiving party. See, I liked this boy, and he liked me too, but he thought I hated him because he embarrassed me in P.E. At the party, he went to the bathroom and was in there for about 5 minutes. He came back, but you definitely couldn't tell it was him. He was dressed up in a turkey costume! I laughed so hard I started crying. It was especially embarrassing when he snuck up behind me and started bawking like a turkey.

Emma, 13, Montana

I am not American but because I have American friends, they invited me to a huge Thanksgiving with a whole heap of people. My friend forgot to tell me my crush was coming. We were all sitting at the table and I ate this most weirdest spicy thing and I spat it back out across the table where it landed on this guy's head. I looked over and saw my crush had the biggest smile on his face. After dinner, my crush comes up and says "Way to go, Lyndal". I found out that the guy I spat the food on was his dad. I felt like crying I was so embarrassed.

Lyndal, Australia

Last year we had a big Thanksgiving party and we were going to eat and someone stole the turkey so my Nana ordered a pizza and put a picture of a turkey in the middle!

Nicole, 11, Tucson

One year I had a Thanksgiving with all my friends and family. I was helping my Grandma with all the settings. When everybody was ready we all sat down to eat. I realized I had forgotten something so I got up and left, along with the table cloth! I ruined our Thanksgiving.

Melissa, 13, Texas

Sometimes I go to my Grandma's house for Thanksgiving, and my Grandma had left the oven open. I dropped the sleeve of my sweater, it caught on fire and she chased me around the house and I tripped over my uncle's foot and fell on my Grandma's dog's foot and everybody laughed at me!

Jessica, 12, Alabama

My most memorable Thanksgiving experience was about five years ago. We had just moved to New York so our stuff was still in storage. That Thanksgiving my sister had something to really be thankful for. My daddy was cutting the turkey and we were calling the pieces we wanted. "I want a leg!!" "Ok I'll take the other one." My daddy and I called the legs. My sister came in right after I got the leg and said she wanted one. When she didn't get it she started to pout and act like a brat so my daddy sent her to our room and he ate the leg. (Then Mom brought her dinner, later.) Now every year we call it a couple months in advance! (My sister) was thankful for by the grace of God she didn't miss one of the best dinners in the world!

Connie B, 12

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Every Thanksgiving my dad invites his friend Tom and his twin sons Chris and Mike. Last Thanksgiving we were all eating and I had to go to the bathroom. So I went and came back to the table. I heard Chris say something to Mike and they both roared with laughter. We are both the same age and I kinda have a crush a Chris so I leaned over to Mike and asked him what they were laughing at. He told me and I looked down. I had a long, long piece of toilet paper wrapped around my leg. I was mortified. To make matters worse when I got up to go to the bathroom to take it off and probably cry, I took the whole kid's table cloth with me. Cringe!

Katie, 12, Iowa

Last Thanksgiving I had a major crush on this guy named Dennis. So I was eating at my grandmother's house and Dennis's mother came over. I had no idea that Dennis was with her. I was eating and eating, and talking at the same time. I got choked on a bone. I was coughing and gasping for air. So my cousin hit me on my back and the turkey bone flew out of my mouth onto Dennis's mother's shirt! Then he laughed and said," My mother always told me not to talk with my mouth full". Nice advice!

Jalicia, 12, South Carolina

I went to sleep at the table and fell in the mashed potatoes.

Gina, 9, Ohio

One time, a couple years ago, it was my job to slice the turkey. My mom told me to be EXTRA careful with it. I had sliced it up, and left it out on the kitchen table while I went to the bathroom. When I came back, it was gone! The plate was there, but there was no turkey! I looked everywhere! But when I searched under the table, I found Pluto, my aunt's dog, with half of the turkey. The other half was probably in his stomach! The pieces that weren't eaten were all covered with slobber. When everyone found out, they all laughed. We had microwaveable pizza instead. It was fun.

Annie, 12, Pennsylvania

My most embarrassing memory was last Thanks giving. We always have a turkey and have the family round. But this year I had a friend over. We all sat around the table waiting for my dad to bring the dinner out. He started singing and if that wasn't embarrassing enough, he then came out with the turkey on his head! I could have died.

Hannah, 13, England

This Thanksgiving was the worst ever! We had a perfect turkey with all the trimmings. The best part was my dad's famous stuffing. Everyone arrived on time and went to the dining room to eat. Since it was at my house, all my family members carried the food in. As I made my grand entrance with the turkey, I didn't notice my dog sleeping in the middle of the doorway. I tripped over her and went flying, turkey and all. Then I landed with my face in the turkey. Everyone hooted with laughter, everyone except me!!! It was the most embarrassing Thanksgiving ever!

Diana, 13, Canada

I thought that I would die on Thanksgiving!! I was helping to stuff the turkey, and my hand got stuck!! I pulled so hard that my jewelry came off. I didn't realize that until my dad almost choked on my favorite ring! We examined the turkey real well after that.

Kathleen, 11, Texas

One Thanksgiving I was sitting down at the dinner table eating with my whole family. My cousin Samantha (who was 11 months old) was sitting next to me in her high chair. Well no one had given Samantha anything to eat because they said she would make a mess and needed someone to sit and watch her. I decided to give her a plate of mashed potatoes. Not paying attention, I sat and talked to my mother as Samantha smooshed potatoes onto the back of my brand new sweater! I walked around all day like that until my boyfriend and all of his friends told me later on while I was on my way to a Thanksgiving party later that night.

Heidi, 11, Massachusetts

Last Thanksgiving it was my family's turn to hold the annual family dinner. Well my brothers and I had to help our parents serve the meal and while we were, my cousin was in my room going through my personal stuff and he found my diary and thought he'd read it! When he found out that I liked his best friend, he took the diary and showed it to his best friend the next day. I was so mad at him but it ended up that his friend liked me too and we're dating now!

B.A., 14, West Virginia

I had just turned 11 before Thanksgiving and I told my parents that I was old enough to cut the turkey. So, we were all sitting at the table. I was trying desperately to cut he turkey but it wouldn't cut! I went through all of the knives in our house but it still wouldn't cut! Finally, I gave in and let my dad cut it!

Sehr, 11, United Arab Emirates

When I was like 4 years old, I was at my Thanksgiving family gathering, and I was and still am, in love with sour kraut. And I asked, "Please pass the sour crap." And my whole family started laughing. Well, I didn't know what about, So I said, "What's so funny? Someone please pass that sour crap." Of course I wasn't embarrassed until my whole family starts going, "Sour kraut honey, sour kraut".

Meagan, 12, Georgia

On Thanksgiving in 1997 my family came over to my house to enjoy Thanksgiving with us. After we had eaten dinner we decided to take a walk in the park. Right before we left the kids decided that we wanted to roller blade. We got our stuff together then headed for the park. After we got out of the car my Grandma tells us she wants to roller blade. We all thought this was hilarious, but we let her try anyway. When she had them on she stood up and got out of the car she tripped and fell... Right into a trash can full of beer bottles. It was so embarrassing because it was like all the people at the park were staring at us. I couldn't believe it!!

Abby, 13, Colorado

My funniest most embarrassing true story that happened at Thanksgiving was when my brother was trying to act as funny as he could by going and getting a pair of my mom's stretch pants, he put them on so that they would stretch all the way up to his chin, then he put himself in a position of a turkey and ran all around the house for ten minutes looking like a tamale. All the day long he had been pulling the same kind of pranks that made my parents crazy.

Sukiela W

On Thanksgiving day I was performing a play at a local theater. Anyway, when it was time for me to go onstage, I got on, and I accidentally went to close to the side of the stage. Before I knew it, I was falling. I grabbed the curtains so I would not fall, and the curtains fell down! The whole set was ruined. I had never been so mortified or embarrassed in my entire life!

Sonia B., 11 California