Christmas Day disaster stories

A Nice Cup Of Tea · 20-12-2010 07:30PM #1

Just got a text from my mate to say he's stranded in France and if the snow keeps up he doesnt know if he'll make it home or not. I have to admit, I laughed just a tiny bit

Whats the biggest disaster to happen to you on Christmas day? Batteries not included on your toy doesnt count

syklops · 20-12-2010 07:34PM

I remember going into my parents room and saying "Mammy, The puppy santa brought.. <swallow> wont wake up..."

4zn76tysfajdxp · 20-12-2010 07:34PM

Today's not Christmas day.

A Nice Cup Of Tea · 20-12-2010 07:36PM

Leandro Enough Stock wrote: »

Today's not Christmas day.

I know but if the crap weather keeps up he wont be making it home for the Turkey on Saturday

KeithM89_old · 20-12-2010 07:37PM

About 5 or 6 years ago, the cooker broke and we ended up robbing left overs from relatives houses...

Luap · 20-12-2010 07:37PM

I got a packet of batteries one year...but the batteries weren't encluded.:(

Mr. Manager · 20-12-2010 07:38PM

My old man forgetting to get my xmas present was a bit of a rough one.

By the time he remembered, it was sold out.

So instead I got a voucher.

A Nice Cup Of Tea · 20-12-2010 07:38PM

Maloney_o9 wrote: »

I got a packet of batteries one year...but the batteries weren't encluded.:(

Poor Uncle Tom · 20-12-2010 07:39PM

It's all been fairly quiet since they stopped showing The Towering Inferno...

syklops · 20-12-2010 07:40PM

Or the year they stocked up on AA Batteries and the yoke I got needed AAA batteries.

Daemos · 20-12-2010 07:47PM

KeithM89 wrote: »

About 5 or 6 years ago, the cooker broke and we ended up robbing left overs from relatives houses...

A few years ago ours broke, so we cooked the turkey in the microwave. It came out as black as coal but tasted fine.

Mr McBoatface · 20-12-2010 07:50PM

Went to bed as normal xmas eve (pissed), I woke up in the middle of the night after hearing a loud noise. I went back to sleep and I thought nothing more of it until I went downstairs and found a Fiat Cinquecento in my sitting room parked under the tree.

....I never did figure out where the tree came from.

JohnCleary · 20-12-2010 07:50PM

When I broke my feckin' spine!

On the up-side, they allowed us 1 drink on Christmas Day in the hospital. I filled a glass with whiskey and Baily's - surprisingly nice

Einhard · 20-12-2010 07:54PM

Maloney_o9 wrote: »

I got a packet of batteries one year...but the batteries weren't encluded.:(

I got a packet of batteries one year. The remote controlled car that I actually wanted wasn't included:(

Einhard · 20-12-2010 07:58PM

My crazy (in a good way) old aunt was living with us one Christams, and decided to drive down to a natural well and stock up on some water. Only problem was she forgot to stop when she got to the well. So instead of tucking into the turkey and ham, myself and my brothers and my dad had to salvage her car from a foot of water in the freezing cold. Ah how we laughed. And then put her in a home.

SeaFields · 20-12-2010 08:00PM

That massive storm we got Christmas eve a few years back. Half my housing estate was without power for the two days. We were two houses on the good side of the electricity! Disaster for all the neighbours tho.

nxbyveromdwjpg · 20-12-2010 08:02PM

The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible.
It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire.
That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father.
He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.

Tonyandthewhale · 20-12-2010 08:08PM

nm wrote: »

The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible.
It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire.
That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father.
He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.

I don't know what you're complaining about. 9 is plenty old enough to find out about Santa.

TheZohanS · 20-12-2010 08:13PM

nm wrote: »

The worst thing that ever happened to me was on Christmas. Oh, God. It was so horrible.
It was Christmas Eve. I was 9 years old. Me and Mom were decorating the tree, waiting for Dad to come home from work. A couple hours went by. Dad wasn't home. So Mom called the office. No answer. Christmas Day came and went, and still nothing. So the police began a search. Four or five days went by. Neither one of us could eat or sleep. Everything was falling apart. It was snowing outside. The house was freezing, so I went to try to light up the fire.
That's when I noticed the smell. The firemen came and broke through the chimney top. And me and Mom were expecting them to pull out a dead cat or a bird. And instead they pulled out my father.
He was dressed in a Santa Claus suit. He'd been climbing down the chimney... his arms loaded with presents. He was gonna surprise us. He slipped and broke his neck. He died instantly. And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus.

Really?

fonecrusher1 · 20-12-2010 08:23PM

Not a christmas day story but close enough.

Christmas eve 1992. A cold wet day that i'l never forget. Our piece of sh!t Ford orion decided to be a prick that morning. The starter motor failed. Of all days it packs up on pretty much the busiest day of the year. She would not start. Not a great way to begin the day for my folks with so much stuff to get for the following day.

Basically to get the car going we had to push start the car or point it at a hill & let gravity do the rest. Don't forget we had to go into the city center to buy stuff so just imagine the day long struggle of having to push start a car every few minutes on a packed xmas eve, standing around in freezing cold rain. On 2 or 3 occasions the car looked like it had had it but then would start on the third or fourth push. Utter misery throughout the day & several times we relied on the kindness of random strangers to help push the bag of sh!te of a car.

We eventually got home around 10 at night, shattered & grumpy. Worst christmas eve of my life & the reason i have a instinctive dislike for fords.

Stinicker · 20-12-2010 08:33PM

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Not a christmas day story but close enough.

Christmas eve 1992. A cold wet day that i'l never forget. Our piece of sh!t Ford orion decided to be a prick that morning. The starter motor failed. Of all days it packs up on pretty much the busiest day of the year. She would not start. Not a great way to begin the day for my folks with so much stuff to get for the following day.

Basically to get the car going we had to push start the car or point it at a hill & let gravity do the rest. Don't forget we had to go into the city center to buy stuff so just imagine the day long struggle of having to push start a car every few minutes on a packed xmas eve, standing around in freezing cold rain. On 2 or 3 occasions the car looked like it had had it but then would start on the third or fourth push. Utter misery throughout the day & several times we relied on the kindness of random strangers to help push the bag of sh!te of a car.

We eventually got home around 10 at night, shattered & grumpy. Worst christmas eve of my life & the reason i have a instinctive dislike for fords.

Had some similar childhood memories except with a Toyota, I still despise them to this day!

Funniest christmas day memory was taking a walk with the family after dinner and letting the family dog go which was a Pomeranian anyway the dog ran off into a farm yard and out across a snowed and frozen over slurry pit and through down he went through the ice and bogged down into the sh1tty gutter. How we all laughed so much as my father going out into the slurry up to knee depth to rescue the dog from death by sh1t. Funny times.

JONJO THE MISER · 20-12-2010 09:27PM

I burnt the xmas tree while lighting a cigar.

easyeason3 · 20-12-2010 09:33PM

I suppose turning up to my mothers house still half drunk & not being able to eat the Christmas dinner. I just fell asleep on the couch.
I stopped drinking wine on Christmas Eve after that & it made all the difference.

James Forde · 20-12-2010 09:35PM

The time we found 'santa' asleep on top of the toys in the sitting room covered in piss.

What a humdinger that day was

mfceiling · 20-12-2010 09:44PM

One xmas myself and the family were sitting down to dinner in our 16 bedroom, 22,000 sq ft house.
One of the butlers was carrying in a tray of vegetables cooked in caviar with gold flakes on them.
He dropped a carrot on to the floor.
My mother was horrified.
My father dismissed him immediately.
One of the maids was summonsed up from the servants quarters to put the carrot into the bin.
We drank exclusive 200 year old whiskey and €1500 bottles of wine to try and remove the disgusting taste that this horrific episode had left in our mouths.
Worst xmas ever.........

McNulty737 · 20-12-2010 09:52PM

When i was a kid, the tv broke on christmas eve the year i finally got a megadrive. TV repairman unable to show up until around the 30th or so....no christmas time tv and no megadrive, absoltuely devasting for a ten year old, still havent fully recovered all these years later.

paulosham · 20-12-2010 09:53PM

We had a few years during the mid nineties where the power would go on Christmas Eve and wouldn't return until St. Stephen's Day. That was around 60 houses without power.

Carl Sagan · 20-12-2010 10:28PM

Supposed to fly tomorrow and fly home on Christmas Eve. That'll probably be a disaster!

wmpdd3 · 20-12-2010 10:54PM

My parents were publicans, one Christmas Eve after the pub was closed and they had a few with the bar staff, it was about 05:30 by the time everything was locked up and they went to bed.

20 mins later I was woken and told to get dressed.

All the Santa presents for my sisters and brother were still in the attic in my cousins house, a mile away.

So we had to pile in the car, bang on the door in the cousins house, climb up to attic, pack them back in the car and dump them under the tree....no wrapping paper....no names on them.

Parents went back to bed and didn't surface till after 1pm. I decided I'd rock the boat and doled out the toys to who I choose instead of who asked for them.

Years later, I was drinking with my friend till the early hours in her village. We walked home and we fell into bed after 5am, then realized half her little fella's toys were in the boot of her car...in the village.
We didn't say a word to each other on the 30 min walk to get the pressies, hoping no-one passed two lunnies walking back home at 6am on x-mas morning carrying boxes bigger than themselves.

Mr Magnolia · 20-12-2010 11:01PM

My butcher told me about a lady, waiting with a cooked turkey in the roasting dish under her arm "with no meat on it" outside the butchers, first day opening after Christmas. She was fairly irate as Christmas Dinner had been ruined by a bird with no meat.

He pointed out that she'd cooked it upside-down.

we'llallhavetea_old · 20-12-2010 11:39PM

last christmas day my car broke down on the way to my parents house. stranded for about forty minutes in the freezing cold with no heater and a screaming child and cat. i had a little weep for myself.

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