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OT: Thanksgiving Eve - StickierBuns - 11-27-2025
Any of you have kids or know kids that went out last night? I remember doing this back when I was in college and would come home for Thanksgiving: go out with local friends, hang one on and then be hungover for Thanksgiving, lol. They call it 'Blackout Wednesday' now I believe. Sometimes it progresses to your 20 something/early 30 something kids going out together and meeting friends. etc. I'm trying to remember when I stopped doing it....I think when I got married and started my own family and you just can't conduct/host a Thanksgiving hungover. Its brutal.
RE: OT: Thanksgiving Eve - MaroonBells - 11-27-2025
Never heard of Thanksgiving Eve or Blackout Wednesday, but found myself out late in Mexico last night with a couple of 18 year olds drinking legally for the first time (mine). Woke up this morning to a mild hangover and the headline "Denver drops to coldest temps in 265 days."
RE: OT: Thanksgiving Eve - StickierBuns - 11-27-2025
(11-27-2025, 08:22 AM)MaroonBells Wrote: Never heard of Thanksgiving Eve or Blackout Wednesday, but found myself out late in Mexico last night with a couple of 18 year olds drinking legally for the first time (mine). Woke up this morning to a mild hangover and the headline "Denver drops to coldest temps in 265 days."
Very nice, a rite of passage for sure. Who ate the tequila worm?
What kind of shape are the kids in? Yeah, my son in Denver is like WTF?
RE: OT: Thanksgiving Eve - MaroonBells - 11-27-2025
(11-27-2025, 08:31 AM)StickierBuns Wrote: Very nice, a rite of passage for sure. Who ate the tequila worm?
Funny you mention that. On the plane ride down, I tried explaining the idea of the worm to my daughter. She was horrified. No worms for any of us, but we did get wrangled into buying two bottles of flavored tequila. On a side note, what's up with all the flavored spirits? There's literally a cotton-candy flavored vodka. Talk about marketing to kids.
RE: OT: Thanksgiving Eve - JR44 - 11-27-2025
Definitely a lot of memories of the tradition of going out on Thanksgiving Eve, I had not heard of the blackout out Wednesday, for us it was more of an opportune night to meet someone. Just came across this yesterday, pretty funny -
RE: OT: Thanksgiving Eve - JimmyinSD - 11-27-2025
a few years ago I read that thanksgiving eve is the number 1 night in America for DWIs, higher than any of the traditional "drinking" holidays.
RE: OT: Thanksgiving Eve - purplefaithful - 11-27-2025
I never thought of the Wednesday b4 as party time, till now.
TG was always the holiday we hosted for extended family...No F'ing way I could have pulled that out hungover.
RE: OT: Thanksgiving Eve - Mattyman - 11-27-2025
100% we'd party at bars till 2 and everyone had fun.
The other part i miss was waking up Thanksgiving day morning with a hangover and then going to play in a turkey bowl.
You could tell who over did it the night before.... Fun times.
RE: OT: Thanksgiving Eve - SFVikingFan - 11-27-2025
Funny, I actually just texted my friends yesterday reminiscing about going out the night before Thanksgiving while we were in college and how unbelievably packed the bars used to be. I was wondering if it is still a thing. Hadn't heard the term Blackout Wednesday before but it definitely was fitting for us back in the day.
RE: OT: Thanksgiving Eve - StickierBuns - 11-28-2025
I'm surprised a few aren't aware of Thanksgiving Eve drinking. I know my Mom would be pissed at me the next day, lol. But she wouldn't rip me a new one because we always had family over and she didn't want to make a scene.
Hair of the Dog Day is an alternative name for Thanksgiving back in the day.