Two of my cousins, brother and sister, after a few drinks, passionately (and I mean passionately) argue about the virtues of home made pierogi vs pierogi bought from a Polish deli.

Everyone else sits back and watches it all play out, for over an hour and a half, laughing at our little jokes on the side, because we know this is how normal, healthy, and well adjusted people unload a year’s worth of angst and frustration about all the other things we cannot control.