Go ahead and include it if you want to, though.
2006-12-03 05:28:28 · 13 answers · asked by shellbugger 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
As I sit here reading some of the responses, I am almost sorry I asked. I suppose I assumed they would be somewhat funny (like the cat barfing on the tree. . .), but instead they are *TRULY* the worst! I apologize for any added stress my question may have caused.
2006-12-03 05:47:11 · update #1
I was deployed to Kuwait in January of 2003 and was there until January 2004. I was there for Christmas. It was kind of depressing because I am used to being around my family and friends during the holidays. They served Christmas dinner, I started not to eat but my friends convinced me otherwise. The best part was that we were safe and I was amongst friends of mine!
2006-12-03 06:00:05 · answer #1 · answered by Natasha M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, it's kinda hard to pick. It seems like Christmas is seldom as great as I expect it to be. The pain of missing family that has recently passed away, the way my mother dampened my spirits by making it clear how much she dreaded the season, a car wreck almost 6 years ago that I still haven't fully recovered from... But I would have to say that my worst Christmas memory had to do with the mean things that family can say when things don't go their way.
It should have been my best Christmas :) I was 20 years old, I was in love, I was surrounded by family, and it was my little girl's first Christmas. But, my favorite uncle, who I had always looked up to, did not like my baby's father. We had been staying with my grandmother while we saved up to get our own place, and that only made matters worse. He wanted to throw us out on the streets that Christmas night. ... How could anyone want to throw out a 5 month old baby? My grandmother would not let him do it. When she said something about my daughter needing a safe place to stay, my uncle said not to worry about her - CPS would find her a better family.
Emotionally I lost so much that year. The person I had looked up to for 20 years, who I thought loved me and would do anything for me made it clear that I had overestimated the capacity of his heart. He tried to take away the most wonderful things i had. And things have never been the same between us since that night. But I still have my daughter and that is the important part.
That night was also one of the major "beginning of the end" marks between the father and I. When he found out about that conversation between my uncle and my grandmother, he got mad. He went out and got totally drunk. That just led to the day getting progressively worse. And it had gotten off to such a good start.
That is all I care to tell about my worst Christmas. On a more positive note, I hope to make this my best Christmas yet :) My daughter and I have our own place. I have a decent job. I plan on going by my grandmother's early in the day, before my uncle has a chance to come over. Then I think we will go to the park if the weather is nice enough. She loves picnics and it is so pretty with all of the decorations :) I may even invite her father to join us. When we get back home maybe we can see my mother and her father's family. Then we will play the rest of the evening by ear. Maybe light some candles to fill the air with a sweet warm smell and dance to Christmas music until she is tired out. Then read a story and/or watch a movie before bed. - Just taking the time to spend a day with each other and not worry about the rest of the world.
2006-12-03 06:02:45 · answer #2 · answered by Michelle 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Christmas of '92. It was the year that my brother and I had lost our parents and that Christmas Day I opened my gifts and the gifts that I had for the dog that I had and by 10 a.m. I was going crazy because I couldn't stand being in the house anymore, and in the evenings leading up to Christmas when I tried to watch my Christmas movies or even ones on tv, I couldn't because not very far into them I would break down crying, and on Christmas morning I called some friends of ours to see if I could go over to their place because I had to get out of the house and I was crying when I did call.
2006-12-03 05:37:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My worst Christmas memory was 6 years ago when my husband handed me divorce papers, after 20 years of marriage. I agree that we did need a divorce, since we had been having problems for over 2 years (I had asked for a divorce about 6 months before he did, but he begged me to stay), but to get them for Christmas was the worst! It goes to show you that he was a real jerk! You have no idea what that did to our children! They were crushed and realized what a jerk they had for a father. They have never forgiven him for that. That Christmas was a sad one, but every Christmas since then has been the best! My children and I have never been happier, without their father. He has moved across the country with his new wife and her children. That tells you even more about what kind of person he is. He met her in March of 2006 and married her the end of May 2006. Go figure!
2006-12-03 05:37:26 · answer #4 · answered by country girl 006 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A few years back we had this huge christmas tree, and when we woke up on Christmas morning my cat had knocked the tree down and half the ornaments broke and a couple gifts that were under neath the tree. and then the cat barfed right in front of us!
2006-12-03 05:34:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was 2001. My friend and my mother passed away. I had been fighting social security for over a year. I had no extra money at all. I had to tell my 7 year old son that there was no Santa because I did not want him to think that the reason he got only a few presents was because he had been bad.
2006-12-03 05:33:41 · answer #6 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When my fake family invited me and my children to share Christmas with them on the 25th and I didn't know that it was JUST for the 25th and we went back to my mothers house the next day because mine wasn't ready and she got up and walked out!! My "sister" said Christmas is over. I couldn't believe they would stoop so low as to do this and involved my innocent children. My mother told us to get out of her house. I hadn't spoken to her for ten years for other terrible things that she did and I had finally been able to put it aside and rejoin the group and then she does this. I haven't spoken to any of them for 7 years. I won't allow PEOPLE to ruin the true reason for the celebration of Christmas day.
2006-12-03 05:50:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i had been in basic training and took christmas leave-there was a girl i had started seeing before i left for the army...i decided to surprise her and walked (didn't have a car then) miles and miles thru a maine snowstorm to her house...when i got there i found out she was seeing someone else, and had neglected to tell me about him in any of the dozen or so letters she had sent me...so i just turned around and walked back thru the snowstorm, singing 'white christmas' and crying...that really sucked
2006-12-03 13:25:42 · answer #8 · answered by spike missing debra m 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Family deaths around Christmas have to be the worst thing.
2006-12-03 05:31:35 · answer #9 · answered by David H 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
My mom died Dec 15th of 1976. Kind of ruined christmas for me ever since.
2006-12-03 05:32:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋