Worst Thanksgiving Plan EVER

[Anonymous]

Is this the crazy aunt you already posted about?

Please send updates when you can.

DCUM may just bestow on your aunt the highest honor it has: The BOBCAT Award (second highest is LFT, of lightly fried tuna).

[Anonymous]

Lol lol lol! Thanks for sharing this! I’m dying!! Please update us!

Is this the woman who has posted before about your husbands crazy aunt?

[Anonymous]

I love this so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH's aunt is upset that her mother (DH's grandmother)is too concerned about COVID to host Thanksgiving for all the extended relatives. Aunt is not dealing well with COVID because it has cut off her supply of opportunities to boss people around and be the center of attention.

So she has come up with a plan. We all just received an email instructing us all that Thanksgiving is ON. We are all expected to rent a motor home or camper and drive up to another uncle's house who is in a rural area with enough land to hold all the campers. She will be arranging for fencing to be set up around each camper site to keep adults, kids and pets inside their own zones. Everyone is expected to NEVER leave their camp pen for two weeks. She will drive everyone to get tested a few days before Thanksgiving at a drive through facility. She will do weekly grocery runs and we are all expected to give her money and lists. She is asking one of the cousins who is a contractor to supply some Port a Potties for all the individual camp pens. She is asking the engineers to do something about the Internet so everyone has good wifi in their pens and can continue to work/go to school remotely. She has pointed out that a few family members are doctors and dentists so there should be no need for medical or dental trips during the two weeks. She is seeking someone who knows a vet and can test the animals to make sure they don't have COVID and can roam free during Thanksgiving.

On Thanksgiving, we all get "freed" from our pens and can come inside to enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving hosted by her at uncle's house. The email goes on with how excited she is to have come up with this great idea that will SAVE the DAY.

We obviously will decline and I don't see anyone else agreeing to her pre Thanksgiving prison pen idea.

I think this is quite a creative solution. Bravo to your husband's aunt!

Yeah, except for the part where she utterly failed to consult anyone about this before issuing her demands. I'm not paying for or living in a camper in a pen (with two working adults and a DL kid) for two weeks so I can eat turkey with my extended family.

Oh but OP yes you ARE because we all need to you do this for us and report back.

[Anonymous]

Is this real? If so, aunt is going to be very disappointed when no one participates. Can you at least send her a thanksgiving bouquet or something?

[Anonymous]

I read this all but one part keeps bugging me. Why do you need portapotties? Don’t your RVs have toilets?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read this all but one part keeps bugging me. Why do you need portapotties? Don’t your RVs have toilets?

So the thing about RVs is that it's best if you have a no #2 rule.

[Anonymous]

Your whole family should get together and build a pen for your aunt. Make sure it has a lock and is in the middle of the field. She is completely unhinged!! I thought my family was crazy, but yours wins the 2020 COVID award for craziness. Send her a one word answer “No”
Please keep us posted. Enjoy your nice quiet Thanksgiving with your own family and stay safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read this all but one part keeps bugging me. Why do you need portapotties? Don’t your RVs have toilets?

You have to empty the tank occasionally, which would require leaving the camper prison pen.

[Anonymous]

Does she think you're going to get this RV and travel situation sorted out in the next 3 days to start the 14 day quarantine? This part gives me almost as much anxiety as the rest of that insanity!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read this all but one part keeps bugging me. Why do you need portapotties? Don’t your RVs have toilets?

So the thing about RVs is that it's best if you have a no #2 rule.

Yup. I'm guessing that the aunt (or the uncle whose property this is?) doesn't already have a blackwater disposal site.

[Anonymous]

I am so glad I clicked on this thread. That is so totally off the wall and yet so creative.

[Anonymous]

The part that bugs me is that she thought about WiFi but not about basic running water and electricity. What are all these campers hooking up to?

And is she seriously putting her own mother in a prison camper?

[Anonymous]

Craziest post ever. She’s INSANE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The part that bugs me is that she thought about WiFi but not about basic running water and electricity. What are all these campers hooking up to?

And is she seriously putting her own mother in a prison camper?

+1. I love this but the logistics make no sense. Maybe there will be extension cords and garden hoses but you still have to empty the tanks. And I agree with PP who noticed there's like 3 days to figure this out and book RVs, which are expensive.

Anyway, I love it. Please keep going, OP.