Holiday Dinners: The Kiddies Table!

[EQ]

I was just recalling this memory with someone ( you know who you are! ) this afternoon...

The Kiddies Table...


Depending on how noisy we were, usually set up right near the much longer, and higher table ( which, depending on how many people was often several smaller tables pushed together.. or if you were in the basement recreation room, table cloths thrown onto a Ping Pong table. Gawd ) LOL
..where all the 'grown-ups' ate, drank, and argued.

The kiddies table ( where we also ate, drank, and argued ) was usually mischeviously fun.. UNTIL..

... that one loser-teenager ( who was late to dinner, and had to try and squeeze into the little chairs - completely embarrased to be sitting with us )

OR: The kid who was maybe 12 or so, and thought he or she was WAY too "mature" for the kids, but too young to sit with the adults. Then after about five boring minutes with the adults, he realized how much more fun the kiddie table was.

It was sort of like the Holiday Clubhouse-table for kids. Kids only.

I was always really small, so for me, the kiddie table seemed JUST RIGHT. The funny thing is that most of our parents, aunts, uncles, etc. had no clue what we were really talking about, plans we had ( "safe " games. "Sshhh.. Hide the fireworks, and the Car keys!" ), the mocking of certain relatives, and the beer we had in our LEEDLE cups.

Good Times.







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This message was edited by Elle Quinn on 11-30-03 @ 7:03 PM

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OR: The kid who was maybe 12 or so, and was too "mature" for the kids, but too young to sit with the adults.

That was me.

I would like to make this my formal appology.

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the playskool table and chairs sufficed up until this year. my daughters decided it was 'too small' and off to the basement it went. Luckily we had less company this year and they sat comfortably at the kitchen table.

Actually i had called everyone for dinner and turned to find my oldest daughter eating a pineapple ring from the ham plate with 'her fingers'... i gave her a dirty look and she got upset and didn't eat dinner(sensitive teenager)...

my 4 brothers and I would often have a good time at the table doing the same things, making fun of relatives, throwing food like rolled up breadballs(oldest brother was famous for this) you had to be thankful it wasn't a booger. we'd make faces at each other and score the face with a 'star system' 100 Star, 1000 Star...

ah, the good o'l days...

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my 4 brothers and I would often have a good time at the table doing the same things, making fun of relatives, throwing food like rolled up breadballs(oldest brother was famous for this) you had to be thankful it wasn't a booger. we'd make faces at each other and score the face with a 'star system' 100 Star, 1000 Star...


This reminds me of Thanksgiving 3 years ago at my mother's house. My brother Mikey and me started acting like we did when we were kids( giggling, throwing food at each other) My mother got pissed and banished us to the kid's table where we taught our younger kids how to act like kids!!!!

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Why does Michael Jackson sit at the kiddie table?
So he can touch the other boy's meat!!

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at my aunt's house, the dining room table isn't long enough for everyone, so they add a table at the end, where my cousins and I still sit. Of course, they added the playskool table for lil ones, but we still consider ourselves to be at the kiddie table.

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[EQ]

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throwing food like rolled up breadballs



I almost forgot about that. The food served to the kids was rarely eaten.
Not when just about anything on our plates could be turned into a weapon of sorts ( usually something airborne )


The punishments for throwing food were brutal - especially if you had a sling-shot with peas, and Grandma just happened to be in the line of fire.


..but since it was always a holiday ( uh..Chaos, Beer, more chaos, etc. ), parents seldom remembered what they said you " had coming to you " or that you were grounded, or " who threw the Brussel Sprouts at your Aunt, dammit ?!!"




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[Arienette]

i had a bad kiddie table experience this year at thanksgiving. we went to my brother in law's parents... my boyfriend wasn't able to come, so i just went up with my parents. just before we sat down to dinner, my sister came over to inform me that there was no room at the kiddie table for me. unlike the loser teenager and the mature 12 year old, i was devastated not to get a seat at the kiddie table.

i should point out, by the way, that this so-called "kiddie table" consisted of my sister and her husband (who are 26 and 31, respectively), and his sister and brother in law (who are 34 and 30, respectively). so, being that i'm 24, i should definitely have had a seat at that table.

so, i was stuck at the adult table. the only two people there that i really knew were my parents. that wouldn't have been so bad except that there was this bossy old lady who was barking out orders to everyone, telling them where people "always sit". so, i sat in the seat she told me to, which was between two people i didn't know. i could kind of make out my parents from behind the centerpiece...

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I almost forgot food masterpeices. We always take the food we didnt eat and dump it onto one plate and try to make that biggest and most disgusting food thing that we could. It was usually a turkey-mashedpatatoes-gravy-peas-beans-brocoli-coke nightmare.

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I never wanted to be too old for the kids' table.

Nature sucks.

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[TooCute]

This year:

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I think my sister and I should probably be permanently relegated to the kiddie table.

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I never wanted to be too old for the kids' table.

Nature sucks.


Where have I heard this before?

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Uncle Butch?

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Is that hard to do? How does one graduate all the way up to a finger? I need to try that.

I always enjopyed sitting at the kiddie table. We were always the closest to the TV so I could watch my football and we always got to have out own conversations and we could plot how we were gonna take over and rule the world.

It sucked the one time when I stuck my hand under the table to pet the dog and she bit my hand and I screamed and bled a whole bunch. Fun times.

It was also fun when my two little cousins would come over and i would draw them cartoons and stuff and they would just love it so much. They are both grown up now and I need to find some more kids for a new audience now. Maybe I can rent some for Christmas. I know I will never have a family of my own but I can't wait until my Sister starts to breed. Then I can sit at the kiddie table once again.

Funny, I was talking with someone aboot this earlier as well.

Hmmm.....

Oh yeah, do they actually stick relish in the relish tray? Our relish tray only has olives, celery and carrots.

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[EQ]

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Is that hard to do? How does one graduate all the way up to a finger? I need to try that.




Fluff, looking at your own cartoon ( the one under your name ) you've been practicing picking your nose EXACTLY like THAT for some time.


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Funny, I was talking with someone aboot this earlier as well.

Hmmm.....



I've never said aboot in my life. Now, let's back to the topic, eh?
I'll bet you never had Bacon served at your family holidays - you know, at the kiddie table?
( Actually, we didn't either )

Am I'm right aboot that?







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This message was edited by Elle Quinn on 12-1-03 @ 2:44 AM

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We only usually have any bacon related products for Christmas morning breakfast.

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[JustJon]

I always remember this amusing thanksgiving story when I go to my aunt's...

several years ago, my cousin had her second child, and the baby was sleeping in another room while we were all eating dinner. I finished eating and her husband turns to me and says "Wanna go check on him?" Now, I knew this was code for going to watch football, so I agree and we start to get up. Across the table, my cousin's friend hears us and says she wants to check on him too. Seems everyone knew what was really going on except her, and she had to be told by my other cousin.

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I guess you had to be there.

I always remember this amusing thanksgiving story when I go to my aunt's...

several years ago, my cousin had her second child, and the baby was sleeping in another room while we were all eating dinner. I finished eating and her husband turns to me and says "Wanna go check on him?" Now, I knew this was code for going to watch football, so I agree and we start to get up. Across the table, my cousin's friend hears us and says she wants to check on him too. Seems everyone knew what was really going on except her, and she had to be told by my other cousin.

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[East Side Dave]

My family still makes me sit at the kiddies table; which I don't mind.

And I'm only allowed to eat unless I'm wearing nothing but a diaper; which I don't mind, either.

But it's not fair that I have to be spoon-fed by my six-year-old cousin, now that I mind, Paco. That I mind.


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But it's not fair that I have to be spoon-fed by my six-year-old cousin, now that I mind, Paco. That I mind.

How'd you end up with a cousin named Paco?

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I drafted him in the fourth round.

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Jon's a funny guy.

Funny-looking, maybe.

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Funny-looking, maybe.


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[JustJon]

that's it, you're all uninvited to next Thanksgiving.

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Funny-looking, maybe.

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