Pre-Season-Giving?

I was thinking about how Thanksgiving is really not a holiday anymore. It's more like a pracitce for Christmas. Decorations are already up, Santas already at the mall, and you grandma is sizing you up for another lumpy sweater she's gonna knit. I have come to the realization that Thanksgiving is really just like a pre-season football game. It doesn't really have a purpose other than to show everyone what you got, and then to see what you need to do for the big time. In pre-sason football no one is really looking for a win, just to show off a few things, get an idea about how they are going to do for the future. We're all the same way at Thanksgiving, we show up with our good clothes, but not the best ones, we have to save those for the big show. All the teams bring out their new star players out to see how they do in the leauge. We do the same thing with people we are dating, like a new quarter back we show them around, see the reactions and then decide if it's gonna fly for the regular season. Eating is the same way we eat a lot to see how far we can push ourselves before it starts to matter how much fruitcake you can put away in a two hour time period with Aunt Millie watching. I really miss the good old days when Thanksgiving was just a pre-season match, but more like a friendly pickup game just to have a few good times and laugh at your one uncle who eats too much and then hits the wine a little too hard for a family function. Good times.