Have a favorite childhood Christmas memory?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 4:40pm

Yeah, the time my dad had like 7 martinis and called my mom a whore and ripped open the fur coat he had bought her and stabbed it 72 times.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 4:41pm

I liked the year that I got my Red Rider bb gun...and shot Rudolph outta the sky.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 4:47pm

Dont be sorry...it was all her fault!

[blueroses]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 4:47pm

doodle, you'll shoot your eye out!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 4:48pm

I actually shot my brother Randy once...he was an ahole....never ate his dinner.

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 4:50pm

I tried to push my sister Pam out the door of a moving car because she was trying to cover my eyes so I couldn't see the Best Western sign somewhere in Southern California. I used to like to count them during road trips.

But I guess that's really more of a Memorial Day memory.
Updated On: 12/18/06 at 04:50 PM

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 5:20pm

The year my daddy got out of prison on Christmas Day and after he'd had seven martini's found us at the Best Western where we were living in California. He stabbed my momma with a knife and then shot her with a bb gun. She bled all over my brother Randy's dinner. Good times.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 5:22pm

What, no fur coat?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 5:23pm

and if the police hadn't got there and stopped me i woulda got more than your head and shoulders into that microwave, ya little potlicker! goddamn that was the best christmas ever!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 5:24pm

*disgusted*
You people never take anything seriously!

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 5:30pm

oh no, i'm serious, that was the best goddamn christmas ever.

Updated On: 12/18/06 at 05:30 PM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 5:33pm

Excuse me, but this is about your "favorite childhood Christmas memory" NOT "the best goddamn Christmas ever."

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 5:37pm

some of us grew up fast.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 5:38pm

and we grew up mean. our fists got hard and our wits got keen. we roamed from town to town to hide out shame.

[bbabe24]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 11:19pm

Let's hear it for dysfunctional families, like mine.

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:11pm

Nice try, Amanda. I hope the 'quality' of the responses you've gotten here hasn't turned you off completely to this board. On a good day most of these poster's are incredibly cynical. This particular season they seem to be in rare form. The level of negativity here is beyond words. I believe I'll follow the lead of some friends and pull away from here for a while. You might try doing it too. Just stick to the main board and maybe we can try again next year.

[CJR]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:18pm

I'll play. And I'll even be nice :) (I know, ME be nice? watch out!)

When I was little we had "The Elves". I knew from a young age that Santa was a crock, but for some reason I always believed in the elves. My dad had these 'reindeer bells' he used to jingle in another part of the house and I knew it meant The Elves were somewhere in the house doing Christmas work. I loved it but at the same time it slightly terrified me thinking there were tiny little men somewhere in my house wrapping Christmas presents. Haha.

In any event, sometimes I would find a little present in whatever room I heard the bells ringing, but I always "missed The Elves." Even growing up in a house with 7 other people, it never occurred to me that there could be someone in another part of the house actually ringing the bells and the Elves weren't real.

That was, until, I was about 18 and we were moving. I knocked into a box and knocked the bells off the top of it, sending them crashing to the floor. As soon as I heard them, I knew. Not to say I'd believed in them till I was 18 -- it had been years since I'd heard the Elves bells in my house -- but it was one of those things I got used to and just trusted in as a child. I was highly disillusioned...... but it *is* a nice memory from my childhood.

(and I too, have a very dysfunctional family. I'll spare you THOSE holiday stories though haha)

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:19pm

bye bye bye-bye-bye-bye!

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:31pm

well, gee Mrs. Cleaver...noone else was posting!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:34pm

I've noticed amanda to have a great sense of humor so far, I didn't think she'd have a problem with my post.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:36pm

actually, she told me that she wishes you'd quit sending her all those sexually explicit photos of you with the farm animals, rath. i mean the donkey was one thing, but the goat and the ox? that was just over the top!

[etoile]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:36pm

If you can't entertain sock puppets, then what's a board for?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:38pm

I was under the distinct impression that noone pays attention to my posts...at all. Clearly, I am not offensive enough.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:42pm

papa, she paid extra for the ox, so myob.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 1:42pm

myob on a message board? hah! it's public knowledge that you've virtually molested her! for shame! that's my f*cking job, sister!