A Funny Thanksgiving Story

Ah, family get-togethers: The petri-dish of hilarious memories and embarrassing tales that never, never die.
Nothing will beat the year my brother, Alex, set the stuffing on fire. (Maybe I'll re-post that tomorrow.) But we had a funny thing happen this Thanksgiving.
I always cook the turkey according to my dad's recipe, which calls for an hour-and-a-half of browning time on each side before tenting the bird with aluminum foil to allow it to cook out the final few hours without over-browning.
Today I cooked the turkey at my brother's house. He has a nice stove with a digital control for the oven and timer. When the timer went off after the second browning session at around 2:30, and it was time to tent the bird with foil, I found my brother-in-law (who has requested he remain unnamed) turning off the timer.
I tented it the turkey, and then set the timer for three hours before heading up to take a nap in a spare room.
At 5:30 the timer went off, and I asked one of the men lurking around the house sniffing the air to remove it from the oven. He did so, and I took off the foil, to discover the timer hadn't popped up. The bird was a bit pale, too. And the final, damning evidence of trouble, we noticed the oven...and the bird...weren't hot any more.
Oh oh.
My bro-in-law sheepishly said, "Um, I think when I turned off the timer (three hours earlier, remember) I actually turned off the oven."
Whoops.
So the bird had been languishing in the oven for three hours, making no forward progress.
Fortunately, Kelsey and her beau, Jeremy, had brought another turkey to deep fry out in the yard. And we'd planned to eat late anyway. So I turned the oven back on, and Mr. Turkey resumed roasting.
We were hungry, so we decided to go ahead and eat the pies then! And I think this was a great decision, because I'm usually too full from dinner to enjoy the pie. This year, the pie was the featured first course.
At 9 p.m. we all sat down to a late, but fabulous, Thanksgiving dinner.
And it was delicious!
Happy Thanksgiving!