A drunken uncle can be the best or worst for our family gatherings. It usually starts off by taking that awkward silence in the room off with a funny comment or two. After a while the drunken uncles in my family are notorious for weighing in on the food spread. Last time, Uncle Jim was very particular about the Turkey sandwiches my cousin Louie had made. With a hot knife Uncle Jim slurred, he ...

Uncle Ricky used to be the coolest uncle.

But after sometime away, locked up in a factory selling beer, he had changed.

He used to walk in, smelling clean and dressed nice, but he doesn't care about his appearance anymore.

He dresses in old, holy t-shirts, sweat pants, and his hair oily and disheveled.

What happened?

Oh yeah, and he's also an alcoholic.

He drinks, and drinks, and drinks, and...

My uncle wasn’t a bad man. He was just not understood very well it didn’t help that he had a weird sense of humor. He also had a different view on life and people. My uncle was a man who liked drinking beer a lot and he always had a favorite snack to eat while he drank his beer, and that was a turkey sandwiched. My uncle also turned into a different man when he drank to much and that was not alw...

Stepping into my local I couldn't believe the state my uncle was in.

Though , I would say he was quite in his rights to choose a bottle of whisky as his best friend.

After all it is not everyday your wife of only 1 day tells you she is soon to have a sex change op.

So standing next to him at the bar I did feel sorry for him.

And now after a good hour of telling me the sob story that I already knew...

Christmas for my family wasn’t like any others. We made turkey sandwiches for dinner, the adults drank beer, and the kids had water. My parents cooked a turkey and used a hot knife to slice it for the sandwiches. After we got done eating and the adults got done drinking, we went into the living room and picked a movie. Every year one of the adults get drunk though, and it was my uncle. He has way ...

“Today I went to my cousin house” I quickly wrote in my old torn up diary. “Her dad ,my sad drunken uncle, was there cutting up her favorite meal. Turkey sandwiches. “Yuck” I wrote. My uncle Ronny aka the drunken uncle was cutting up the worst meal I have ever eating and the worst part I had to act like I liked it. “ you know we don’t have no heater so I used a hot knife to cut it, the middle shou...

My uncle is useless. Ever since he lost his wife he has started drinking. And it’s not like the normal adult where they go out to parties and clubs and drink, it’s the type of adult where he buys loads of bottles from the shop and sits in his living room watching depressing tv and drinking non stop all day. The only time he moves out of that chair is when he has run out of vodka or whiskey or well...

My Christmas is not like many others. There is no free for all gift opening. There is no running back to our rooms to spend the day with all our new toys. There are no crazy drunken uncles, nor white trash cousins. No one gets ran over by reindeer. No one gets left out of it. But by golly, it’s crazy. And it is crazy good.

But this year...this year was different. I woke early, excited to spend t...