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Wow, that's some kickass string of replies you guys put together for the last survey. We usually don't see that kind of holiday jubilation until like, the second week of December. I think you deserve a prize.

This is, of course, the All Day Saturday Thread, which is a lot like the Saturday Night Thread, only posted earlier. Same rules apply. NO fishing.

Survey: Okay, we've heard some of your great holiday traditions in the last thread, and Jesus Christ did they ever fill me with vicarious joy. Now, let's hear the opposite. Let's hear your sucky holiday stories.

Posted by Matt on 11/19/2005. E-mail me!

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First post? I’ve been following for a while, but this deserves a post.

My worst holiday story is probably based around Thanksgiving, when both of my parents were working night shift at their job, and the holiday was ostensibly cancelled — I ate veggie burgers at home, and I’m not even a vegetarian.

As far as Christmas goes…the worst stories were the early years of my parents divorce, when my Christmas loot had two homes. Sucks when you can’t get at that new Sega game because it’s a good 45 minutes away from your little hands.

Chestnuts roasted by Trev @ 11/19/2005 7:55 PM

One year I had some bad turkey salad…. Uggh. Twas’ a vomit filled Christmas eve indeed.

Two Year, My mom had to work on Christmas morning until like 4pm. We had to wait for her to open presents… It didn’t happen until about 6!! I felt like I was coated with flesh-eating ants the entire day.

Three Year, my sister went into the Marines, so there was a member missing… But I pulled out my My Pet Monster, and posted a sign on him with her name on it. Needless to say nobody could tell the difference, and I sent her the pictures.

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 11/19/2005 7:57 PM

Wow, that prize was…sharp.
These 3 quick stories will probably pale to many others that will be posted but here we go:
1. 1993-Sick as a dog. Threw up on my mattress on Christmas Eve and was generally miserable on Christmas.
2 1994-Socks and 2 copies of the STAR WARS TRILOGY on VHS (apparently my parents and my brother did not coordinate what they were getting me). Not a bad thing but that’s about all I got that year for whatever reason. I still have them. One is the Deluxe trilogy VHS and the other is the THX remastered
3. Not bad just kinda stupid: My parents got me a WALKMAN (’93) but then bought me a RUSH cassette tape instead of the CD.

Muppet Baby, none of my students were upset about Eddie’s passing but one of my co-worker’s students were so go figure.

Squee,, I haven’t see the the GOF yet. Any good (sans spoilers of course)?

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 11/19/2005 8:16 PM

My worst Christmas experience…decided to start a tradition of drinking every christmas eve. But my first one ended up with me thinking I could stay up all night drinking. When I realized it was 6am and my sister was knocking on my door I knew I couldn’t fake my way out of it so I opened the door with a can of beer and yelled merry christmas. They didn’t talk to me all day.

Chestnuts roasted by Sempai @ 11/19/2005 8:17 PM

Well, since there’s a new survey this observation will probably get lost in the chaos, but I was watching some movie on Starz tonight. And who was there doing the stupid Starz-is-awesome intro? That’s right – Mike Nelson from MST3K fame! How low he’s descended….

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 11/19/2005 8:20 PM

My worst holiday experience would have to be the Christmas of ï¿½93. My parents were in the middle of their divorce and things didnï¿½t seem festive enough as it was around the house, and to add to the whole anti-Christmas vibe that year my grandfather went in to a coma 4 days before the big day, never to regain consciousness. That one event completely killed Christmas, as his funeral was the day after Christmas.

Chestnuts roasted by encinaman @ 11/19/2005 8:23 PM

Goodbye ghost, hello red star. So… would Superman be powerless in this blog?

Chestnuts roasted by Gozer @ 11/19/2005 8:24 PM

Gozer,
Funny you should mention that; my NETFLIX pick of the day was MSTK’s MITCHELL which of course was bye bye Joel, hello Mike. Interesting…

Long overdue pic of E.Claire’s 1st Halloween for those who are interested. Click the name.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 11/19/2005 8:27 PM

Worst Christmas was when I was married to Butthead. He hated Christmas and everything that was fun. But also, my parents were in the middle of moving when my mom had emergency surgury. My dad couldn’t miss any work and mom had to stay where she was for a few weeks. My mom said on Christmas she went to Taco Bell for supper. It’s not Christmas if your not dressed up, with family, and eating prime rib.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 11/19/2005 8:38 PM

I broke my toe on Christmas Eve one year. It was really stupid, too. My grandmother sent us a Kareoke machine, which we opened Christmas Eve morning. My sister and I were in the middle of an impromptu kickline to the Frank Sinatra version of "(Theme from) New York, New York" when I kicked her foot really hard. I spent the rest of the day with ice on my toe, went to the hospital the next day after we opened presents, and was on crutches for the rest of Christmas Vacation, one of the least fun I’ve ever had.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 11/19/2005 8:38 PM

That camcorder in the commercial is the same one that I have, it still works great as well, I just need to get a battery pack for it.

Chestnuts roasted by Rambozo @ 11/19/2005 8:38 PM

I think it was the year it rained and was like 60 degrees on Christmas Day. Now I know it doesn’t snow for everyone but living in the snow belt in northeast ohio you EXPECT some fucking snow on Christmas!!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 11/19/2005 8:45 PM

The only bad X-mas I can think of was the first year my Grandmother couldn’t throw her annual X-mas party because of Alzheimers.

As for other holidays, my house burned down one Thanksgiving.That pretty much put us in "exile" for 5 years.

And there was the Halloween when my Dad caught my Mom and I talking about what a jerk he is and for two days he wanted to divorce my Mom and leave home (he didn’t divorce her or leave, he got over it, he’s still an asshole).

And, there was the time my Uncle died between X-mas and New Years.

Chestnuts roasted by Tetsu Deinonychus @ 11/19/2005 9:04 PM

This wasn’t really bad for me, but it was for my brother, who was sleeping at the foot of my bed.

I was pretty young, and woke up in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve, right around the time when I suspected Santa would be bringing my presents. I REALLY had to pee, but I didn’t want to run across the hall to the bathroom, because if Santa saw me, he would take away all my presents, because would think I was trying to peek. So I decided to "hold it"… Well, that idea didn’t work really effectively, so I (and my brother) woke up with a rather moist surprise. But at least Santa left me presents, and that’s all that mattered.

Also, one year I drew some pictures of Santa and Mrs. Claus on cardboard, colored them, cut them out, and left them with the cookies for Santa. But in the morning, he had taken the cookies but not the pictures!! I was SO SAD, and I cried because now I would not be able to give it to him until next year! I think we still have those drawings in the box with the Christmas ornaments

Chestnuts roasted by LuLu @ 11/19/2005 9:17 PM

For the most part my holidays have been comparatively stress-free. There was the usual low-level crap with my control-obsessed father deciding he needed to scream at me or my brother Christmas Day because we were doing something that set off his Crazy-o-Meter, but that was fairly easy to shrug off.

The worst to date is tied between three Christmases, two one right after the other. My father, who is difficult to be around for a variety of reasons, stormed out two years in a row on Christmas Eve and was gone even after we went to bed. The first time because he and Mom were fighting over something, the second had something to do with my much older brother and sister (who had hated him from day one) apparently admitting to his face that they disliked him. He threatened to move out. What was really weird about that was that the whole time, and bear in mind, I was only about eight when this happened, I had this insane urge to laugh. I went through a weird phase as a child where upseting things gave me the giggles.

The most recent to date was one year I went to my sister’s house for Christmas. The whole vacation was great, but Christmas Eve night, after I’d gone to bed in the upstairs apartment built onto the house, I proceeded to freeze my butt off. I was cuddled under a sleeping bag, and was so cold that I pulled all of my clothes out of my luggage and stuffed them into my sleeping bag for insulation. Why I didn’t just go downstairs I have no idea, but oh well. The next morning it turns out that my sister accidentally turned off the heat to the upstairs. It’s pretty funny now.

Chestnuts roasted by LemonWitch @ 11/19/2005 9:38 PM

My brother once got drunk on christmas eve.
Really drunk.

So drunk, he tried to walk home. Unfortunately he never made it to our home. He made it about 100 yards down the road and went to the first house and tried to break in, thinking it was our home.

We drove around looking for him, and me and my brother saw numerous cop cars drive by us. We made the hilarious assumption that he was getting arrested, but we didnt take it seriously.

He got picked up by the cops and peed himself in the back of the cruiser. They felt bad for him, and dropped him off at our house.

Whata sweet night.

Chestnuts roasted by Benji @ 11/19/2005 9:49 PM

Here’s what happened to me on Christmas ’99. About 2 days before Christmas I recieved a letter from the DMV revoking my drivers license. Because of this I lost one of the best jobs I ever had. Think that’s bad? Get this: The next day on Christmas eve, My girlfriend of 3 years left me, took all of her belongings and moved out. I definately had no Christmas spirit that year. I ended up spending christmas eve at my friend’s house with a case of Sam Adam’s and stayed up untill 4 am watching a Christmas Story over and over on TBS and getting sh$tfaced. Without a doubt, that was the worst Christmas I ever experienced. It’s funny looking and the family photos from that year. Everyone is smiling gleefully while I looked absolutely miserable.

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 11/19/2005 9:53 PM

Manimal, I thought Harry Potter wasn’t half bad. The new additions to the cast were pretty good, particularly Rita Skeeter. I cannot, however, allow the scandalous excisement of Winky to go unnoted. For shame! Overall I thought it was darn good, though I have the same "waaah not like the book" nitty picks as the last movie left me.
We’ve got a sucky tradition of flaky relatives, and the related sucky tradition of getting stuck with a big gathering’s worth of food to justify. That just means more pie for us, so it ain’t so bad.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/19/2005 9:56 PM

Has anyone else seen the REALLY COOL inflatable Charlie Brown/Snoopy snowglobe decoration that blows snow like a snowglobe? It’s awesome though I don’t know where I would put it if I got one.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 11/19/2005 10:19 PM

My grandmother passed away on Halloween about 12 years ago.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 11/19/2005 10:21 PM

I think I have a tie for my worst Holiday.

About 7 years ago my Grandmother had a heart attack two days before Christmas. Thankfully she lived and we ended up celebrating a lovely Christmas in February.

Then two years ago, a week before christmas m stepfather fell asleep while smoking a cigarette. Needless to say it wasn’t a happy holiday.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike @ 11/19/2005 10:33 PM

Hmmm worst holiday moments.
Back in 89 my grandma was in the hospital for a long time and we wound up having to open presants in the lobby around a huge tree.

Sounds like fun, but it wasn’t. Nothing about that christmas seemed right. God I miss my grandma

Also Thanksgiving in 99 was horrible for us. My grandpa had cancer and was past the time they expected him to live. So my grandma (not the one above) decided and it was going to be his last thanksgiving and she had to plan every minute detail out and we had to follow.

We always have the whole family over at my house and we do all the cooking, but she wanted to have it at her house and she wanted to cook. Problem being she can’t cook, is a controll freak, and her plans never make sense.

So we were all stuck around a small table eating bad food, which later made us sick, and being forced to act like and say things she wanted us to. This is all because she was sure this would be his last Thanksgiving.

No one had a good time thanks to her psycho controlling and it just made the mood worse. Next year we went back to having it at my house. My grandpa held on for a few more years before the cancer won the battle.

I sometimes wonder if it was to simply stick it to my grandma. "I’ll go when I’m ready to go and no one is going to tell me different"

Chestnuts roasted by Punisher Bass @ 11/19/2005 10:55 PM

One year when I was little my mom dragged me over to my grandmother’s on Xmas wearing this itchy cream colored wool sweater. I went to eat a sweet pickle and it made me throw up all over the place.

This holiday is going to be sad, I’m sure. My boyfriend has a certain job that I can’t talk about. For confedentialty reasons I rarely know where he is, what he’s doing, or if he’s in any danger. I barely get to see him, but I love him dearly. It breaks my heart thinking that he’ll probably spend the holidays alone. I’d give up every present I get just to see him. *tears*

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 11/19/2005 10:56 PM

Five years ago my grandpa died the week of Christmas.

Three years ago, my freshly divorced parents each got married the week between Christmas and New Years. To a couple of weirdoes. Clearly, they were each trying to be first to re-marry.

Since Matt just said "sucky holiday stories," I will also mention the worst/weirdest gifts I’ve ever received…

After dating for over a year, I went with my (former) boyfriend to his family’s for the holidays (during the ‘divorce’ I really wanted to be part of a family celebration). His mother gifted me one of the little containers of popcorn she kept on hand for unexpected guests. This was fine, I wasnt expecting anything from her, really. The sucky part was that she gave me the exact same thing the following year. For some reason we never really bonded…

Her precious son was equally adept at gift-giving. The first year, I received a coat that was clearly too small; the second year he gave me a futon mattress that was on "backorder" until February. The third year he did give me the Back to the Future trilogy, so at least I got out with something…

Chestnuts roasted by schroeder @ 11/19/2005 11:08 PM

I’m sorry to get off topic, but I was just curious what you all think about Coke not having a Santa can/bottle this year? This year it is a Polar Bear instead of Santa.

Chestnuts roasted by SuperRecoome @ 11/19/2005 11:19 PM

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