What's Your Best Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa Story?

'Tis the season for another off-topic holiday post!

I'll go first:


As I prepared to depart for college, my family decided to replace my presence in the house with a corgi puppy. My sister was ecstatic, but my dad was firm in his conditions: we would get a boy, and he would be named Spike (with an appropriate spiked collar to boot).


Fast forward to Christmas Eve, I'm back in town and we're headed over to my aunt's house. She had reluctantly agreed to let Spike accompany the rest of the party.


We walked in to an impressive spread of food, and in the corner, a beautiful Christmas tree surrounded by presents.


As soon as we'd removed our jackets and shoes, we looked up to see Spike trotting over to the tree, where he proceeded to take a massive piss all over the lower branches, and the gifts underneath.


Needless to say - Spike spent the remainder of the evening outside, and was never invited back.

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TheOverTaker
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my uncle locked himself in the dog cage last year after we split a bottle of Japanese whiskey. I laugh
CuriousFox
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I need more of this story.
TheOverTaker
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He was messin with our dog and his "ultimate embarassment" was to make a home out of his (dog's) home. So he crawled in there and locked the door while my dog stared....aghast and rattled at his home's new 6 foot 3 occupant. it was hilarious
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Yesss ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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Big Shot
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Hope it was Hibiki, love that stuff.ย 
TheOverTaker
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It twas. I'm a good ole bourbon boy but he swears by that stuff. Not gonna lie...its smoooov
Beans
Big Shot
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Irish for me, but those Japanese blends and singles catch my eye every time.
UserNotFound
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My first Christmas with my then boyfriend- now husband, celebrating with his extended family on Christmas Eve in a town Iโ€™m not from and donโ€™t know well. I have to lock myself into the ONE bathroom in the house and send him to the store for tampons and gas x.
We laugh about it every year around this time. Iโ€™m a real catch!
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And thatโ€™s when his family knew you were the one!
UserNotFound
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๐Ÿ˜‚ this is true!
poweredbycaffeine
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My English springer spaniel, Luigi, once tried to eat an enamel-coated bone from the tree. He got a good chunk off, spat it out, and proceeded to try and tear the tree down. I miss that guy.
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Sounds like Luigi was quite the dude
funcoupons
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One time @paddyย and I ended up under the mistletoe together but instead of kissing me he had me sniff an odd smelling poinsettia plant. All of the sudden I was on a private jet to Fiji dressed as a sexy elf, being forced to watch him shower while he drank a Coors Light and laughed at me. Even though I don't remember most of that trip it's still my favourite holiday memory.ย 
paddy
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What can I say I like to spoil my girl
funcoupons
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u done work yet?
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I envy this relationship you speak of
funcoupons
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You should.ย 
TheLaughingWolf
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When I was 12 years old, a family friend gave us a whole smoked salmon. A 25 lb smoked salmon. Well being the greedy kid as I was, I decided to devour as much as I could.ย 

Then the sickness took over. Ohh the sickness. I was ill, like puking my guts out, running to the bathroom, fever, ill for almost 2 weeks. Which happened to be right at Christmas time.

So there everyone is on Christmas day, eating delicious foods, chocolates, opening presents, and there I am running to and from the bathroom from my bedroom all because my brain said it would be a good idea to eat as much of the salmon as humanly possible.

And no one else got sick from eating it. I was the only one.

So basically, my body told me to fuck off during the holidays.ย 

Have not been able to eat smoked salmon ever since.

That is still known as the Great Christmas Sickness of 1993
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the โ€˜Great Christmas Sicknessโ€™ ๐Ÿ˜‚ almost sounds like a rap song
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