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The Saturday Night Thread.

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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The worst Christmas was 99, when my grandma died a few days after Christmas. We visited her on our way to my mom’s parents’ since she wasn’t well enough for visitors. It was so heartbreaking to see her lying in bed, all weak with no hair. My parents had just seperated, and it was my paternal grandma who was sick, but I was with my mom, so it was awkward making conversation. When we left it was the last time I saw her; she said "I love you" but I was too choked up to say it back.
Man, that’s depressing. On a happy note, I saw Goblet of Fire and it was great – a little rushed and of course stuff was cut out, but great just the same.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 11/19/2005 11:21 PM

I was in the hospital once for Christmas, that was probably the worst.

Last year, I got the flu and did nothing but watch all 24 hours of A Christmas Story.

Chestnuts roasted by CountBlah @ 11/19/2005 11:24 PM

This has forever changed my christmases. One year I was very enthused about x-mas. Maybe 2000. I had given my parents my list of toys and boy was it ever great. I didn’t open a present on christmas eve but that was a ok because nothing could ruin this christmas. I fell asleep on the couch watching A Christmas Story. I awoke on christmas morning in my bed with a huge smile on my face. I woke up my parents, rushed down stairs and saw that there were only around 9 presents under the tree. That was allright, maybe they just put a bunch of the action figures in a single big package like they had a couple years ago. What did I get? A bunch of cheap, off brand interactive toys that didn’t work and two Dragon Ball Z action figures. I didn’t get anything that I wanted. I was very upset. Ever since then I have bought almost all of the gifts that I receive myself. Christmas has lost almost all of the suprise in opening up gifts.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 11/19/2005 11:31 PM

Well, anyone that was around last year at Christmastime got to see my worst holiday moments in all their blazing glory, so I’ll just summarize for those who weren’t: I had to work at a job I despised on Christmas Eve. I came home wanting a little family togetherness and expecting everyone to be home, but my parents were at my grandparents having oyster stew (which I loathe) and my brother was in love with the Internet. After calling my grandparents and fake-yelling at my mom, I find out I was on speakerphone. And the entire family was pissed at me the whole next day.

I’m a little afraid of what the holidays are going to be like this year, and that they’re going to royally suck. My boyfriend is meeting my extended family for the first time on Thanksgiving, and I’m afraid he’s going to be convinced I’ll turn out like them and never speak to me again. Also, I have always been very close to my maternal grandparents since I was a baby…and my grandfather just passed away this August after a 4-year battle with cancer. I haven’t even remotely let it sink in yet, and I know that the holidays are going to be rough. That’s why I’m glad to have X-E around, to keep me in good holiday cheer and from moping too much over things I can’t change.

And I finally found the Nerds Holiday fun book whatsit thing! Target is my new best friend. And White Nerds are my new God…I’d forgotten how freakin’ great they are.

Also, Matt, thanks to you I made and tasted Kool-Aid today for the first time since I was probably 8 or so. Sweet baby Jesus, I’ll never let my cupboard or fridge be unstocked again. I’d forgotten just how goddamn good it is. I only got to drink it at friends’ houses, because as my mother reiterated to me today, she thinks it’ll "rot my teeth." I’ve never had a cavity. And I have definitely eaten more than enough sweet crap in my life to get one. Stupid mother logic.

Oh, AND (as if this post wasn’t long enough, heh) that Sharp camcorder commercial made me die laughing…I write online copy for several consumer electronics chains, and considering how damn tiny camcorders are these days, that big ol’ thing just cracks me up.

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 11/19/2005 11:32 PM

I remember at the annual New Year’s Eve "bash" at my grandmother’s house (basically it was my brothers and my cousins gettting together playing nintendo, stuffing our faces with chip-chop ham sandwiches and nacho cheese doritos, and watching shitty west coast new years celebrations: like the Merv Griffin celebration which is notoriously bad…) and I had gone upstairs to piss. Well i came running down the stairs and dove into the matress I was chillin on when in mid-air I heard everyone say "NOOOOOO!!!!" and right then I landed in a puddle of dog-piss. I was drenched and "pissed off" and apparently "pissed on" in a way…this was the same night my cousin ate too many pepperoni sandwiches and yakked his brains out. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh the memories!!!

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 11/19/2005 11:43 PM

Here’s another one: On December 23rd 1996, the band I was playing with at the time had a show a few states away. After the show we went to a party. Around 5 AM the girl whose house we were staying at said we either had to stop drinking or go somewhere else. Me and 2 of my friends brought what was left of the beer ball and a Liter of Jack Daniels into a car parked out on the street (Owned by my passed-out bandmate still inside the house). After about an hour or so the kid who was sitting in the drivers seat started driving. We tried as hard as we could to get him to pull over but, he ended up driving into a brick wall on the side of a grocery store at 65 mph. I ended up breaking my Jaw in 4 places and had my mouth wired shut for 4 months. I spent Christmas eve in the hospital. I came home on Christmas day but spent it in my room doped up on morphine with a mouth full of metal wires.
Damn, this thread is kinda depressing…

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 11/19/2005 11:54 PM

At 15 years old, I was uninvited from holiday merriment with my family and had to spend it alone. I still don’t know why they told me I couldn’t come.

Chestnuts roasted by Claudia @ 11/20/2005 12:00 PM

Hmm well a few years ago my Dad started to get really obsessive over taking nice pictures and stuff like that during Christmas morning, to the point of getting really angry when I showed anything but psychotic interest in taking the damn pictures. It was one of those things where his obsession over having perfect pictures kinda ruined the fun of christmas and after a few years of that christmas morning has lost all it’s real charm and it feels like a just going through the motions thing now. But I still love the season, I just don’t quite care about the presents anymore, or the once greatest day of the year.

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 11/20/2005 12:04 PM

So much for Christmas is dead forever on X-E-but it’s cool,this site helps me bring in the Christmas feeling big time! My worst Christmas took place at my aunt’s house about 12-13 years ago. My mom got sick in the middle of dinner and took the liberty to puker her guts out while we attempted to eat. Then surprise surprise I GOT SICK-and puked my guts out-Merry pukemas has never sounded so good.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike the Great @ 11/20/2005 12:07 PM

Since we’re all complaining, Saturday Night Live stinks this week.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 11/20/2005 12:14 PM

kb, doesn’t it stink practically every week these days?

Chestnuts roasted by Nicole @ 11/20/2005 12:19 PM

Nicole-
I think it’s Korn.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 11/20/2005 12:22 PM

Another One. This didn’t suck for me, but it sucked for some girl I don’t know. This was last year and my family was playing a game around 9pm a few days before christmas. We thought we heard a noise outside but then just decided it was nothing. About fifteen minutes later, there was a knock on the door, and this girl was standing there. Her head above her eyebrow was swollen and she had some blood in various places, and she was pretty much blue. We let her inside and my mom did the mother thing while my brother-in-law and I checked out the scene. She had driven her car off a fairly steep cliff right across the road and slightly above my house. We did the full CSI thing and discovered that she flew in the air about 20 feet up and 60 feet out, took out a couple trees, and rolled to a stop. That car was fucked. Everything inside was busted. We did some more snooping and found there was no way she was wearing her seatbelt, and she must’ve been going damn fast to get that kind of air on a road that wasn’t even icey.
This is the best part: We went back and asked her some stuff (she was fine, minus some shock) and she said she WAS wearing her seatbelt, she was only going 35mph, and that’s it. We went upstairs and were like "Liiiaarrr". We suspected lots of speed and some drinky. Then we totally socked it to her by telling her parents our findings. It was like a christmas crime scene mystery. Sounds mean but now that I think back… it was AWESOME! It’s the only way she’ll learn. Sucked for her…

Chestnuts roasted by Mattman @ 11/20/2005 12:23 PM

Last year, definitely.

My husband was being "detained" by immigration, our future was uncertain, and my never-the-peak-of-sanity Manic Depressive mother hit a trough during which she thought my father was trying to poison her, and that the local car dealership was aligned with the devil, and kept yelling at me to get out of the house… She slapped me a couple of times, justifying it with ‘whoever spares the rod spoils the child’. Sorry, mom, but I’m a grown, married woman. That argument isn’t valid anymore.

I would have gotten out of the house, but the thought of being _alone_ during that time was even worse than the idea of being yelled at, called a horrible person, and slapped.

God, that was a bad Christmas.

Chestnuts roasted by Silkenray @ 11/20/2005 12:24 PM

I have very pleasant holidays with little exception.

My grandma passed away a few days after Christmas last year. That’s obviously the worst. However, I don’t really associate that with the holiday in my mind for whatever reason.

One year I didn’t get that Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Playset including Pee-Wee with EXCLUSIVE BIKE! That one pissed me off (enough that I, obviously, am still talking about it to this day–long after my otherwise complete Pee-Wee toy collection is gone).

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 11/20/2005 12:28 PM

I feel your pain, Darth Poop, about having to buy/pick out all the gifts myself. That’s about as bad as my Xmas stories come.

This site is what has brought my my Xmas Joy the past 2 years, and this is gonna be the 3rd.

That and I have yet to get the Jones Regional Pack…Help Me Please!! Thank you.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/20/2005 12:34 PM

Not to double post, but Dane Cook is gonna Host SNL! On December 3rd!

And ya, Korn is so far the only good thing about this ep, that and the Vincent Price Thanksgiving Special 1958.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/20/2005 12:38 PM

We had thanksgiving here once, the entire family was packed in our house. We have this 700+ pound relative that I’ll call Mrs. 700+ pound woman. I call her that because I’m not sure how I’m related to her and I don’t recall her name.

She broke our house is the point I’m getting to.

I’m not joking, 2 beams under our house in our basement collasped while she was in this room and since then each side of the house has leaned opposite directions.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/20/2005 12:38 PM

She broke your house? That sounds like a good idea for a sitcom holiday episode!

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 11/20/2005 12:41 PM

What’s going on with all the bold print?

Chestnuts roasted by Leotrice @ 11/20/2005 12:46 PM

I dunno. I tried to close a bold tag, but that didn’t work. No, that didn’t work at all.

Chestnuts roasted by mtrox @ 11/20/2005 12:49 PM

Well,I was going to say that dragging up your worst holiday memories are a good way to kill the holiday spirit,but after reading some of this sorry stuff… I suddenly feel better about my bad holidays.

Chestnuts roasted by TOMARS_DUMBASS @ 11/20/2005 12:51 PM

I hear ya. Whatever Christmas spirit I had built up so far was destroyed by this thread. It’s time for me to go check out last years Christmas articles and get the spirit going again from scratch.

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 11/20/2005 12:55 PM

I think it is very sweet and revealing that so many X-Ers were close to their grandparents.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 11/20/2005 12:58 PM

Yes,when grandparents pass,everything changes.

Chestnuts roasted by TOMARS_DUMBASS @ 11/20/2005 1:08 AM

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