Holiday Disasters

[Fierce Critter]

Have you experienced any holiday-related disasters, disappointments, etc? How did you "fix" things, if you did. Can you look back now and laugh at the situation?

We almost had our own yesterday, for Thanksgiving. My parents, two of my sisters and my husband and myself were supposed to travel together in my dad's minivan to celebrate at my other sister's place in Hillsdale, Michigan. I was so looking forward to this - my first holiday since returning to Michigan from 3-1/2 years in NC. And I hadn't seen the Hillsdale sister in 4 years.

Then, the snow hit. While we were just getting out of bed and starting to get ready to go, we got a call from one of the sisters who was supposed to go with us. She said that due to the weather & bad driving conditions, we were not going to go to Hillsdale, and instead were going to do a "pot luck" at my parents. No turkey dinner for us this year. =(

I was very disappointed about this. Very. But only for a moment. Then I came to the rescue.

We already had a small turkey in the freezer. So I had groceries on hand to make stuffing, gravy, and even cranberry sauce chilled in the fridge. And then the day before Thanksgiving, Jon's company gave out birds to the employees. So we had one that wasn't 100% hard-frozen and small enough to be able to quick-thaw and roast for dinner.

So we all went over to my parent's house, and I got that bird defrosted and fully roasted by 4:00. And we had a full Thanksgiving feast complete with roast turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, yams, cranberry sauce - the whole works.

It was really great. And what added the icing on the cake is while I was at my parents', my sister in Florida called and I answered the phone. This is the sister I've barely shared 3 words with in 4 years due to a stupid fight. And we talked friendly for a little bit, and she even talked to my husband along with the rest of the family members. And she is coming north with her husband to spend Christmas with us. So hopefully this will help us on the road to patching up our differences, or at least be able to move past them and share a polite gathering.

In any case, the Hillsdale sister will also come to the Christmas gathering at my sister's in Livonia. So this will be one hell of a nice return to the way things were when they were at their best with my family at the holidays. :grin

[Steven]

this one is a classic:

a couple of years ago in Cali my wife and I decided to have a Xmas eve dinner at a swanky resturaunt with our little old lady neighbor and her husband.

We had a long laughter filled evening and we all ate and drank in our fill.

Upon leaving the resturaunt, it was very late and unusually cold in this part of town, and as we were walking down the street to our cars Laura noticed that somone was piping in Xmas music over the street loudspeaker. It was one of those old fashioned "magical" moments.

So in order to draw our dinner guests attention to the Xmas music, Laura goes" HEY - LISTEN" and for some reason she also decided to sneak out a fart - thinking that it would be a silent one and that the Xmas music would overpower it.

It was NOT - a silent one.

So picture a cold Xmas eve, late at night, a wonderful dinner with some elderly folks, and my wife goes "hey - lsiten" and then lets out a RIPPER.

I mean a ripper. Rip-Per.

After shattering the sound barrier and our guests understandingly puzzled and with no venerable reply - we silently all headed into our cars and never mentioend the incident to one another again.

Of course once in the car I had to ask:

"Babe - what the hell was that that came out of your ass?"

she goes: "I tried to sneak it - do you think they heard it?"

"I think the entire town of of Glendora heard that one babe"

and I laughed and she fumed (pun intended) all the way home.

I love Xmas.

Steve

[The_Dark]

Oh god... Steve... thats funny as hell.

[Fierce Critter]

[Medea]

Oh goodness Steven! That was hilarious. I was really laughing hardcore as I read that. Sounds like something my dad would do.

[Homicidalheathen]

Oh my sides hurt Steven.

I went to my moms for Christmas dinner one year and my kids were like 2. We are very petite. So she (the older twin) has to sit on a pillow to reach the table as my mom has no booster seats.

Well she gets all situated and we are diggin in and then whooosh! Listel disappeared! We look under the table and she is sitting on the floor still on her slippery pillow looking very surprised with a turkey leg in one hand and mashed potatoes in the other.

Well, it was funny when it happened.