10 Lists of Ten for Thanksgiving : 10 Reasons Adults Should Sit at the Kids’ Table

1. You can put olives on your fingers and eat them.

2. You can spit out the stuff you don’t like right onto your plate.

3. You can feed the dog under the table.

4. You might be able to win an argument about NAFTA.

5. No one will make veiled references to that petty indiscretion of five or six years ago.

6. If you inadvertently emit a bodily noise, everyone will laugh.

7. You can take your shoes off.

8. No one will ask how your career is going.

9. No joke is too stupid or too long.

10. You have the rest of your life to sit at the grown-ups’ table.