me to?
I wanted to tell them about
when my father came here.
You have plenty of time
to talk about your father.
Sorry we're late.
Another minute, we would've cut the
turkey without you and started to eat.
To cut the turkey without me present?
We leave the house!
- We didn't cut the turkey.
- I heard the turkey was cut.
I was just talking
about when Bill died.
Thank God we are late.
I don't understand this holiday.
I'll never understand it.
- What's not to understand?
- Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving.
We're giving thanks to who?
You're giving thanks
for what you have.
How many times do we have
to go through this?
All I'm saying is, we had to get
the turkey and kill it to give thanks.
If it wasn't this holiday,
we wouldn't have turkey.
I don't eat turkey the rest
of the year. Why do I have to now?
Mom, don't give thanks, okay?
Time to tell the kids
when my father came to America.
Can't it wait till later?
They should hear this story.
Eva, this is very tender.
Of course it is.
It's a beautiful bird.
The turkey was in the basement alive.
She killed it.
We brought my father over in '25.
- '25?
- William died in 1919. '25.
'25? It was later than '25!
He came the same year
we brought Bill and Edith.
Bill and Edith came after!
- After?
- Yeah, after.
It was '26.
What's the difference?
He came to America, right?
It's a big difference
between '25 and '26.
One is '25 and the other is '26.
All's I'm saying is,
who cares if it was '25 or '26?
Jules, Jules, if you stop remembering,
you forget.
It was '26.
I remember the excitement
when you went to meet him.
Finally, the father was coming.
We saved the money and sent it to him.
The whole family went to the border--
Jules, you were just a little kid.
It was cold!
We went to the marketplace.
It was cold. It was cold.
What are you talking about,
it was cold? It was late May.
May? I remember cold.
No, you're thinking of when
Irene was getting married.
It was bitter cold then. No,
it was May 17 when your father came.
Anyway, we went, the whole family.
The brothers, the wives, the kids.
I didn't go,
and all the kids didn't go.
We waited in the house.
There was such excitement.
The father, the father was coming.
All I ever heard was,
"Wait until the father comes."
The head of the family.
I pictured this big, powerful man.
All I'd heard was,
"Wait until the father comes."
The father's word when he speaks...
So I'm there. I see him.
He's shorter than me, and I'm only 6.
He was this little...
He was a little, little man.
I never said he was big.
But I said he was the father.
From the day...
From the day he came to America,
he never had to work.
Not a day in his life.
Each of us would give him 10 percent.
Ten percent?
Right? Right? Yeah.
Ten percent. He was the father.
He never drank water.
The entire time he was in America,
from the day he came...
...he drank whiskey or seltzer water.
He never drank water.
And oh, boy, could he drink!
What was that stuff called
he always used to drink?
Slivovitz. Slivovitz.
He used to call it "Block and Fall."
You have one drink of that,
you walk one block and you fall!
If you have one drink...
It's such a strong drink,
it burned the gums out.
He was funny. He was funny.
Very, very, very funny.
How often did he drink water?
Never, ever touched it.
How many times--?
I'm sitting across from you,
you can't hear it?
He never drank water!
That means he doesn't drink.
I got it.
You asked me, I told you.
Now I'm telling you some more.
Occasionally, maybe,
he had some water.
He never drank water.
So he didn't like it.
- He didn't like water.
- How many times...?
Hymie, Gabriel, Jules.
Are aunts kids
before they become aunts?
Everybody's a kid
before they become an aunt.
They are?
I thought they just popped out.
I've