Holiday nightmare stories

[hatredisnotavalue]

What was your worst holiday? What happened? We put so much emphasis on how happy these times are for everyone (?) Bah Humbug!

[speedoo]

1. I've been lucky.

No nightmare holiday stories from me.

[NMDemDist2]

2. i had invited 30-40 people over for an open house on XMas one

year and with work etc hadn't had a chance to get the food, Xmas Eve I was all over town trying to find an open grocery store

DH says we'll just buy a bunch of Spam at 7-11 and mold it and stick a feather duster in it's ass and call it turkey

luckily I finally found a store open and it came out fine


one year when I was a teen, my mother and i worked graveyard shifts. her parents in law were coming in from out of town on christmas and she hadn't decorated a bit

Xmas morning, we (in our Nurse's uniforms) climbed a fence at the Christmas tree lot and stole a Christmas tree so we could decorate it that morning b4 the company came

:rofl:

[YDogg]

3. no real horror stories, although one Xmas morning my sister awoke to news ...

... that her cat had died later on Xmas eve. Very tough for a 9-10 yr old any time, but especially that day.

:-(

[tigereye]

4. just funny ones that become family lore....

* dishwasher conks out - well, that was every year
*FIL decides to take out the whole kitchen floor for re-flooring that year -beams and all!
*oven fails to work - one year my brother donated his wild turkey when our family turkey was only half cooked - it was good, but full of buckshot!
*sister's care breaks down half way from grad school (there were many of those) and dad has to drive to W. Virginia to get her...
* oh, and the drains in the basement would back up - the image of my father heading downstairs with the snake in his hands was pretty much de-riguer....

:rofl: