This Thanksgiving I’m thankful for friends.
“I wasn’t supposed to put beef in the trifle!” -Rachel
This year Monica decides to let Rachel make the Thanksgiving dessert. Rachel decides to make an English Trifle. As she’s preparing it on Thanksgiving day, Ross and Joey ask her what’s in it. There’s a layer of ladyfingers, then jam, custard, raspberries, more ladyfingers, beef sautéed with peas and onions, more custard, bananas, then whipped cream to top it off! “What was the one before the bananas?” says Ross. “The beef? Yeah, that was weird to me too” replies Rachel. When Rachel leaves the room, Joey and Ross look at the cookbook and realize that the pages were stuck together so she made half an English Trifle and half a Shepard’s Pie. The two decide that they can’t tell her she messed up because it means so much to her to have done something right. Ross distracts Rachel out in the hallway while Joey tells everyone in the apartment the situation. He gives them acting tips to make it look like they are really enjoying the dessert. Rachel comes back in to serves the trifle and requests that Monica be the first to taste it. Monica takes a bite and uses one of Joey’s acting tips saying “mmmm” while rubbing her stomach. She then asks everyone else to join her. The entire dinner party, except for Joey and Ross, leaves the room to go “eat” their dessert. Rachel can’t believe that everyone likes her dessert. In reality the only person who does is Joey. As Monica and Ross are arguing back and forth, Rachel exclaims “I wasn’t supposed to put beef in the trifle!” She couldn’t believe that everyone ate beef and custard just to make her feel good; she was so touched. Then everyone admits they didn’t actually eat it.. except for Joey who ate everyone’s!
Right then Rachel was so thankful to have friends who care so much about her. This thanksgiving I’m thankful for my friends as well. They’re always there when I need support or just someone to talk to and we always have a good time when we’re together. I wouldn’t be the same person I am today without my friends. I love them all so much and don’t know what I would do without them. I hope that all of you have friends like mine and I’m sure you do. I don’t think we always appreciate the people we have in our lives and I think Thanksgiving is the perfect time to do so. Whether it be family members, teachers, mentors, neighbors, or friends, take the time to give thanks to them for being a part of your life. You may not know it, but things wouldn’t be the same without them.