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Please share your 'frustrations of Christmas' - the funny side of things gone wrong

Marianne72

I'm writing after a few red wines and haven't had alcohol in ages, so apologies if this is not coherent! What are your [humorous] frustrations connected with Christmas? Here's one of mine.

Several years ago I bought a heavy and realistic, 7' artificial tree. It was late summer so the price was reduced by 50%. In October I got it out of the loft for a test run, slipped off the ladder and it dropped on my foot. The hospital sent a paramedic, who lent me crutches, bound up my foot then remarked I was their first Christmas accident of the year. [I never knew they recorded such things]. The next year I got it down from the loft in late November but  heaving it onto the stand the bottom fell off - the pointy stem of the middle hit my foot; the one I'd injured before. The hospital sent a paramedic - the same one. He said I'd achieved 'first Christmas injury' again - but if I did the same next year he would refuse to attend! Last year I gave it to the Air Ambulance for their reception. This year I couldn't heave my 4' live tree out of its outdoor pot, so I bought a new 3' live-tree-in-a-pot - the last one in the shop. Thankfully, I got it home and onto my table without further glitches! 

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing
    Cinnabar_wing said:
    It already sounds like it's given you a lot less injuries!

    So far... Trouble is, you don't notice you're getting older! I have to take a lot extra time doing things, especially getting up ladders.

  • i remember one year, on Christmas eve, my dad cut his thumb open with a Stanley knife which he was using to open cardboard boxes. I had to take a very embarrassed dad to hospital for stitches. When we got there we met a row of other dad's with almost identical injuries from them doing the same thing. The receptionist laughed and said "it's beginning to look a bit like Christmas" 4 dads wasn't even a record. Joy

  • Less humorous than sad and ironic, but:

    Yesterday I went to my in-laws extended family Christmas celebration and my wife’s aunt gave me a trio of dog photo frames and a dog ornament.

    ~ We haven’t had a dog for years since our family dog bit my daughter and we sadly had to send him to a greyhound sanctuary. ~

    Worst part is that they know this, but probably forgot. So I had to smile and say “Oh, thank you!” through gritted teeth.

    BUT THEN even if they did forget my Autistic daughter announced loudly and proudly “WE USED TO HAVE A DOG BUT HE BIT ME!“ lol

  • I can't believe the same tree injured you twice! I would have given it away too after that, a 3 foot tree in a pot sounds a lot more manageable! It already sounds like it's given you a lot less injuries!