What is one of your funniest holiday moments?
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November 24th, 2009
My dad one year at a family gathering, decided to start a “what’s bothering you?“This basically just made everyone argue with each-other, and went down in the history books as one of the funniest gatherings in our family history. (We all love each-other very much, we get along, but that day we all fought)
A different year, I put a woopie cushion on my dad’s chair for christmas dinner. When he sat down, it popped instead of making the fart sound.
A different year, my dad was upset the butter was warm, when everyone else in the family hates butter fresh from the fridge. It is harder to spread!! In a fit of rage, he screamed ” I HATE MELTED BUTTER!!!!!” To which we all laughed… and make fun of him for to this day because it just sounded stupid. I could go on for hours. I also know that fpr most of these stories, you had to be there to get the joke. Post it anyway!!! What are the best holiday moments?
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The year Mom eagerly opened her “main” gift from Dad. Eager with anticipation, you should have seen her face when she opened it: a shower head. Dad was a classic giver of “man gifts” – gifts that ostensibly are for the spouse but are really for him – but this one went too far.
I think it’s become funnier in retrospect. At the time I was maybe 13 and didn’t really understand the dynamic between husbands and wives (not that I’m a whole lot wiser now – :-P)
it was when my brother was not paying attention where he was walking and he walked directly into the pool in a beach house in mayaro in trinidad
by the way are any of you all from trinidad
Last year my father-in-law received three of the same exact gift from three different people. When he got the second one it was just like “Well that’s OK, pretty common for that to happen”, but then when the third one came it was just down right hilarious.
This was something probably a whole lot funnier if you were there.
@PapaLeo Speaking of opening gifts as you did, when I was real little, my dad gave my mom a new wrist watch. He did the old trick of putting it in several boxes, from big all the way down smaller. When she finally got down to the last box, there was a coffee can soldered shut! That’s what he’d finally put her watch in. I still remember that. That was a loooong time ago. :-/
Probably Thanksgiving three years ago when my (former) B-I-L attempted to deep fry the turkey and the fryer melted down.
There was a strange wheezing sound coming from it and one of the little grandkids yelled out, “It’s gonna blow!” Those of us outside took off in about 20 different directions. I ran straight into the house. Luckily, the backyard was big, but it turned out to be a bit anticlimactic. The top went straight into the air and landed with a thud on the grass, but the main mechanism shut itself off or died or whatever. No big Michael Bay-like explosion.
There was a moment’s silence, then everyone cracked up.
One year, when I was little, like 8 or 9 and my brother is 2 and a half years younger, my family was sitting down to have a New Year’s Eve dinner, when my mom brought out the home made whipped horseradish. This looked exactly like home made whipped cream. My brother thought so too, and asked “What’s that?” and my dad said “It’s whipped cream” and I joined in too. We convinced him it was whipped cream, and he took the biggest spoonful of it. He immediately started bawling. I do not remember ever laughing that hard at a holiday, nor do I remember another time when my dad joined in with me to play a joke on my brother, it was always the other way around. To this day, my brother still will not eat horseradish and he always smells the home made whipped cream first before eating it.
Back in good old 1999 my brother threw a party Christmas night. We were in his back yard (wasted) at 3am screaming “Happy birthday Jesus, happy effing birthday!” It was great, but I am sure the neighbors did not agree.
(Is it ok to retell a story you just told in another Q??)
@Val123 Sure, or provide a link to it.
@YARNLADY Ok. Cut and paste:
My son is such a good sport. We tell the funniest stories on him that might totally embarass any other kid, but he laughs harder than anyone! (pictures below) It was Thanksgiving, 07. We always tell the old stories around the table, so I was surprised that when I mentioned Chris and the balloon no one knew what I was talking about. I was like, “You haven’t heard about Chris and the balloon??”
Nope. Blank faces.
OK, so here we are at the table, just eating along and I said, “Well, when Chris was about three (and a little penis and peeing obsessed, because he’s just learned from his dad he could pee standing up—he wanted to pee EVERYWHERE!) Any way, when Chris was three he got ahold of one of those long shaped balloons. It was probably 2½ feel long. It was longer than he was tall! He holds it up to his man bits area and says, “Look! This ith big-ger than my penith!” Like he couldn’t believe anything could be bigger than his penith!
This was the result
People were spittin’ food every where!
@Val123 that is definitely worth telling twice. Thank you.
@YARNLADY And I had actual footage to go along with it!! (I think I’ll use long balloons as the centerpiece this year! HA HA!!)
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