Christmas is such a crazy time, you’ve surely made a few festive faux-pas. But don’t fret, you’re not alone – we’ve trawled the internet for some of the best/worst tales of Christmas crises, including one from The Christmas Cart’s own Deb!
These first few stories might make you rethink getting the little ones that puppy or kitten this Christmas. Or if you do, just be sure to keep a hawk eye on it….
“My childhood dog was about 14 and had gone blind earlier that year. I guess since he couldn’t see, he got confused by the tree in the house. While we were all sitting around the room, he peed on the tree and blew all the lights. The tree even started smoking. He walked away completely unfazed.”
“One Christmas morning we woke up and OH MY GOD a kitten was under the tree! This was the best thing we had ever seen. But the kitten took one look at us and started throwing itself around the lounge, tearing the presents to shreds. We started crying when it kept running into the windows. Our parents came down, and yelled, ‘WHO LET THIS CAT INTO THE HOUSE?!’ Turns out it was a wild kitten that climbed in the window in the night and got stuck inside.”
“We used to have 12 free-range chickens in our backyard, including one chicken, Bubbles, who was our favorite. One Christmas, my brothers and I were playing when we heard squawking in the backyard. We went to check on them, and found a hawk sitting in the backyard hunched over the decapitated body of Bubbles. My brothers cried and my dad had to go out and dispose of the body. He found the head on the other side of the yard. It was like watching Animal Planet in our backyard, but much sadder.”
“One Christmas, I somehow managed to get it together and have all my gifts wrapped and ready days in advance. I couldn’t wait to head home to Maine and impress my family with my thoughtfully selected array. I was going to be a hero. But when my brother came to pick me up, I was, of course, running late. Frazzled, I threw on some clothes, loaded the bags with the gifts into my arms, and started down five flights of stairs. That’s when I tripped, and the presents proceeded down two flights on their own — my heart dropped at the sound of vases breaking. And that was the year I gave my family broken glass for Christmas. But hey, since then no one gives me a hard time about assembling my gifts the night before.” –
At Christmas, by the time the kids go to bed, the adults are ready for “The Silly Soap Opera Game.” We turn my dad’s TV to the soap-opera channel, press mute, and take turns filling in the characters’ lines. It’s usually hilarious, but things took a turn down Uncomfortable Street last year. My mom (who is very conservative) was one of the ladies on General Hospital. My brother-in-law Paul was her hunky boyfriend. Before long they found themselves in a steamy love scene. With clothes dropping onscreen, Paul confidently (and mischievously) stayed in character, making noises that turned my mom’s face the shade of a fire hydrant down the block. As I noticed my sister listening to her husband and her mom together, it was obvious that the game might never be fun for her again.
This last one isn’t quite a Christmas fail, but comes from The Christmas Cart’s very own Deborah Quinn…
“A few years ago, I was organising the wedding for my beautiful eldest daughter. For the bomboniere, we decided to give all the guests a classic black glass photo frame to put the photo in they had taken at the Photo Booth that we had at the wedding. Come wedding day, everything was perfect, however as the guests were about to leave a few unwrapped the frames and looked a bit confused – I looked over and realised the 200 frames were actually frames with ‘Merry Christmas’ written all over them, with a picture of Santa inside them. I had accidentally mixed up the box with an order of stock of Christmas frames! If it wasn’t before, my reputation among my daughter’s friends as the crazy Christmas lady is sure set in stone now…my face was nearly as red as Santa’s!”
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