A meme for the holidays

[shadowedge613]

So there are all these cheerful memes about the holidays, and what varoius people will be gifting you with,m but some of my strangest memories of christmas are horrible. So:

what is the worst thing that happend at Christmas to:

the tree?

The food?

The weather?

The transporation?

the gifts?

The family fight?

The failure of the modern world: (example, the Christmas we had no running water, becuase the Orange groves next door pumped the aquifer dry... no, really.)

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what is the worst thing that happend at Christmas to:

the tree? We always had a live tree, as in, a tree in a pot that was to be planted in the yard afterwards. The year of the loquot, no orniments would fit, because it was a very small tree with no branches. so we hung the orniments from the windows on strings.

The food? I got drunk off of Grandma's Rum balls, which are full of rum, and not baked, or anything. So after five of those I was in a special place...

The weather? Ah, Florida. The year of the eighty five degree Christmas, where we all put on pants and sweated all day.

The transporation? well... one year we spent all day in the car. Christmas eve Dad dropped me off in Arcadia. Christmas morning we had christmas at home the drove an hour to Sarasota for Grandma's Christmas. Then to Leesburg, (3 hours) for the other grandma's Christmas... after that we only did one family per holiday.

the gifts?
The year of the Socks. I got a pair of socks from every aunt...

The family fight? for the most part we avoided that. But one year there was the great fight between my stepfather and mom on the drive of crazyness (see above)

The failure of the modern world: (example, the Christmas we had no running water, becuase the Orange groves next door pumped the aquifer dry... no, really.)And another year there was no eletricity after a storm, but luckly we heated with wood and cooked with gas, so it was only really annoying, rather than life threating.