OT: Thanksgiving Eve

[StickierBuns]

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.

[MaroonBells]

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."

[StickierBuns]

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?

[MaroonBells]

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?

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.

[JR44]

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 -

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[JimmyinSD]

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.

[purplefaithful]

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.

[Mattyman]

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.

[SFVikingFan]

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.