funny christmas stories

[silverdaler]

at this stressful time of year anyone got any (true) funny stories about christmas ?
a friend of mine was from a family of six children - one rather naughtier than the rest. When they got up on christmas day he had opened everyones prezzy's so noone knew who's was who's, and he had made a start on all the chocolates!.
Not funny at the time, but many years later they laugh about it !

[pingping]

when I was ten (my sister 11), we asked for new bikes for Christmas. We chose them from the shop, but had to order to correct frame size. My parents told us that they wouldn't be ready in time for Christmas Day, but we didn't believe them! On Christmas morning, we ran downstairs full expecting the ikes to be in the living room, but no bikes to be seen. Several hours later, my dad asked me to get his filofax from his study, and I went in and screamed - there were the bikes! Don't know how they managed to keep that one quiet!

[WendyS]

When I was a small child, a batchelor uncle gave my 7 year old brother a hot water bottle and a penknife for Christmas. Of course the inevitable happened and my brother tested out the penknife on the hot water bottle one winter's night. I don't think my parents were mollified by my brother's excuse that he was only trying to test how sharp the penknife was.
The soaked mattress had to be dragged downstairs and dried out for a couple of days in front of the coal fire. (You can tell how long ago that was !). And this particular uncle had a rather malicious streak in him and my guess he possibly did it deliberately !

[spudqueen]

A few years ago we spent Christmas with the in-laws including my sister-in-law and her little girl who would have been about 4, our son who was then aged about 2 spent all Christmas playing with his cousins Lucy Locket, Polly Pocket and Fairy Dancers. Wasn't interested in his own presents at all! Daren't mention it to him now he's a strapping 15 year old!

[Baby Jane]

My six year old brother got a set of eight metal dinky cars, later dad noticed only six, we hunted high and low (incase Gran stepped on one and did a sherry induced Torville and Dean) When mam had put the turkey on the kitchen table ready to stuff, he had "drove" two into the cavity. we didnt find out till Boxing day. The cars were intact, and so were we.

[maggie01]

My daughter wanted a hampster. I know you shouldn't buy pets at Christmastime but this pet shop was opening up specailly for a couple of hours on Christmas morning. She opened her present which was a cage etc and then my husband took her to the pet shop to pick up the hampster. She was very excited when she got home. We took it out of the box and she went to pick it up and it bit her. She lost all interest after that and I was left to look after it. Nothing new there

[posiedon]

my sister got us up at 4am on christmas morning, my parents and other sister all bleary eyed started opening present, after a few seconds she said well i'm back off to bed, we all sat there stunned as she scuttled back off to bed, she was'nt flavour of the month that day.

[FUZZYBEE]

My mum had cooked the turkey christmas eve and my two brothers came home lagged up and made a start on it. It was in a right old state in the morning.