Pre Thanksgiving feast!

 Today was the annual pre Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Day dinner which is a potluck pretty much with the main protein serviced are provided by the agency that owns the property. That means that someone gets to be elevated to some sort of leader type of the project and then everything goes to hell. There has been Thanksgiving dinners in the past that have been frightful but today's went off relatively well they're just a little bit of chaos that's to be expected when they try to have two lines go down the food Channel to fill up their plates and you're mixing seniors very old seniors with people Wheelchairs and Walkers and all kinds of other things that get in the way of people who can barely walk and let alone hear each other or speak. Anyway that was the function today. I've learned over the years just let everyone go in front of me and it's not as nearly as threatening us trying to Corn myself in front of everyone else and today I Almost Got Away With It. The problem today was Big Jim. Big Jim's is Old Brooklyn Teamster who is really an interesting fellow and I like I like him quite a bit. He's not totally deaf he's not Stone death but he has a hard time hearing and he's pretty old one of the older guys here and pretty much thinks he knows the way things are to go. Now over the years they've had people come into these functions and sit down at tables and once everyone's sitting down at the tables they try to have one table at a time get up and go through the food line get the food come back and sit down and then the other table gets up well today by the time I got there almost the tables were taken and I was just trying to figure out where I was going to sit but the first table right next to the food was empty and that's because they started the whole process so they are all up and in the chow line but it looked like that table was empty and that's what Jim saw and he started waving me over and it was a mess I told him no that's okay I'll come over here but he wouldn't have it he wouldn't take care of the disabled guy and that was me and I swear I was going to sit and so then the old ladies came back so it's happening sort of figured out what was happening and they all ended up finding someplace else and so Jim and I were sitting down there at the table. By this point in time the food was pretty well cold by then there's still quite a bit of food left though I got some pretty nice dressing, couple pieces of pretty decent turkey and some nice pieces of ham plus mashed potatoes which are pretty cold and so was the gravy that went on top but they had big giant pies from Costco so I loaded up on one pie ce of pie. It was relatively quiet chaos a lot of shouting going on because a lot of people just can't hear but I would probably give it a 85% over years past when some really mess ups have gone on. I got a couple cookies filled up my plate as much as I could one last time and headed for my apartment in hopes of having a second Thanksgiving dinner in the evening. Would have been better if there's been a Utah Jazz game tonight so I can watch them lose but enjoy the free holiday treat…