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HolidayStories
By: Lilipons Date: December 22, 2021, 9:43 am
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I’m sure we all have holiday stories that may have felt awful
at the time but have become fun family lore over the years.
Somebody burned the turkey. A cat or a toddler destroyed the
tree. You know the sort of thing. I have a doozie to share but
why not share your gem first?
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Re: HolidayStories
By: VorFemme Date: December 22, 2021, 11:07 am
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There was the year that we had my husband's family over for
Thanksgiving dinner. I pulled the turkey & rolls out of the
oven, slid in the pumpkin pie, only to realize that I was NOT
smelling baking pie (oven eight feet or so from dining room
chair I was sitting in). Luckily, my parents lived two doors
down, so I ran the pie down to their house to "borrow" their
oven long enough to bake the pie....and ran back down to get
it...
And in 2106, we got to my brother's house where he was writing a
check for the plumber (Monday before Thanksgiving) with
relatives dropping in to stay - because their drains had backed
up that morning...lots of laundry done that day (house used to
be two houses - combined thirty or more years ago due to an
invalid parent next door by the previous owners - so the OTHER
house at least had working drains...). It was an interesting
visit for other reasons as well...but the plumbing nightmare was
kind of the start of the holiday season that year.
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Re: HolidayStories
By: BeagleMommy Date: December 22, 2021, 12:42 pm
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One year my grandmother was being treated with steroids (not
sure what was wrong) that gave her boundless energy. She
insisted she could cook Christmas Eve dinner by herself.
Coming to dinner were:
Mom, Dad, me and my brother
Uncle R & Aunt A and their two kids
Aunt D & Uncle C and their two kids
Aunt D2 who lived with Grandma at the time
So that's 13 people in total.
Grandma made all the food. The problem was she didn't make
nearly enough to feed 13 people; 7 of whom were adults.
The adults fed us kids and ate cookies for dinner.
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Re: HolidayStories
By: peony Date: December 22, 2021, 3:05 pm
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My first Thanksgiving as a married woman, I was anxious to
impress my formidable mother-in-law. In addition to the usual
Thanksgiving foods I added a recipe of brownies. After the feast
she complimented me on my dinner, yay! She also told me that
adding those nuts to my brownies was a nice touch. But I had not
added any nuts. To my knowledge my flour was not bad, no bugs in
it or anything, and I thought I had mixed the batter smoothly. I
wondered about it for a while, and then decided I really didn't
want to know.
Edited to change my first Christmas as a married woman to my
first Thanksgiving. I've got Christmas on the brain lately.
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Re: HolidayStories
By: MinMom3 Date: December 22, 2021, 9:52 pm
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I have two, from my 'formative' years.
#1 - we had very little money when I was small. Our Christmas
tree may have been an inspiration for the Charlie Brown tree.
Many years before I ever heard of or saw a tree well to hold
water for the tree... This tiny thing, 2-3 ft tall, lost ALL
its needles by two days before Christmas. Mom had some green
tissue paper for gift wrapping, so that year, the tree had
'sleeves' that she had wrapped around the tree and cut a fringe
on to simulate needles.
#2 - many years later, while I was in highschool, mom somehow
dropped the bird when pulling it out of the oven. The bird
itself hit the floor, not just the roaster. We still ate it. I
think she rinsed it off and stuck it back in the oven for a bit.
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Re: HolidayStories
By: Jayhawk Date: December 23, 2021, 12:07 pm
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[quote author=L link=topic=2240.msg72581#msg72581
date=1640231557]
I have two, from my 'formative' years.
#1 - we had very little money when I was small. Our Christmas
tree may have been an inspiration for the Charlie Brown tree.
Many years before I ever heard of or saw a tree well to hold
water for the tree... This tiny thing, 2-3 ft tall, lost ALL
its needles by two days before Christmas. Mom had some green
tissue paper for gift wrapping, so that year, the tree had
'sleeves' that she had wrapped around the tree and cut a fringe
on to simulate needles.
#2 - many years later, while I was in highschool, mom somehow
dropped the bird when pulling it out of the oven. The bird
itself hit the floor, not just the roaster. We still ate it. I
think she rinsed it off and stuck it back in the oven for a bit.
[/quote]
Honestly, I would've done the same with the bird.
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Re: HolidayStories
By: Lilipons Date: December 24, 2021, 10:35 am
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I have several stories but this is my favorite.
I worked in a special museum library dealing with the ancient
world. Our library staff loved Christmas so we always had a
nice little tree. We also had a wicked sense of humor. One
year our tree was decorated with pictures of dead Egyptologists.
On the year of this story, the museum was staging a show on
Classical Athens. Our department had to write the object labels
but the labels had also to be approved by the Education
department for ‘relevancy’. Unfortunately, the Education
department was staffed by young, ardent feminists. They
complained that women weren’t given proper recognition and
branded our department as
‘phallocentric’’ although our staff was at least half female.
That was our cue to make a ‘phallocentric’ Christmas tree. It
was surprisingly easy to create a pretty tree on which every
ornament could have a male connotation and still be perfectly
acceptable for family consumption.
Instead of the usual star or angel, we used a German spike that
Kaiser Wilhelm might have worn on his spiked helmet for a
festive occasion.
Instead of fluffy garland, we had garlands of dripping icicles.
Animals always look nice on a tree. We had a rooster from
Portugal, a straw ram from Scandanavia and a bison from the
American west. A trip to Chinatown produced Chinese zodiac
animals like a snake, a horse, a dragon and a tiger, all
decked out in festive gold and red.
Little toy people are also Christmas tree staples. We had a
weight lifter, a firefighter, a cowboy and a stereotypical
American Indian chief.
Curators got into the act and loaned glass ornaments. We had
the Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, a cigar, a
pickle and a Chile pepper.
A package of a dozen die-cut and gold embellished images of
vintage locomotives added an inexpensive but nostalgic touch.
Finally, we had a box of six long glass ornaments and a box of a
dozen round glass balls. Hanging a long ornament between two
round ornaments on the same hanger nicely filled in blank spots
on the tree.
Nobody who wasn’t in on our joke from the beginning ever seemed
to get it. Even the feminists from Education liked the look of
of the tree.
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Re: HolidayStories
By: Rose Red Date: December 25, 2021, 7:38 pm
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Just now. Three of us were having Christmas dinner when we heard
a rustling sound like someone was trying to break in through the
back. It was a bit terrifying.
Upon investigation, a package wrapped in cellophane was
struggling to topple off a shelf. Whew!
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Re: HolidayStories
By: Dazi Date: December 25, 2021, 9:54 pm
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This is actually my friend's story...
She got a lab puppy a few months before Thanksgiving. She'd
NEVER had a dog in her life. I warned her repeatedly that labs
are notorious counter grazers. She didn't take me seriously...
She took the turkey out of the oven and walked out of the
kitchen talking on the phone. Can y'all guess what happened???
Yep, pupper ate the entire turkey except for the bones. He was
fine except for looking like a little fat piglet for a few
hours.
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Re: HolidayStories
By: Rain Date: December 26, 2021, 1:06 pm
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LOL
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