Amusing holiday stories!

[Plecostomus]

Post 'em if you got 'em.

SWMBO, my sister, her brat (Darryl) and I decided to invite Aunt Trudi and Uncle Arthur over to my house for holiday dinner.

Uncle A swears. Alot. If he stops dropping the F-Bomb it's time to whip out the AED and begin CPR.

Rather than have Darryl exposed to that for several hours I put a jar on the table and told Uncle A that every time he swears he has to put a quarter in the jar. Either tone it down or go broke.

He thinks for a moment, pulls out his wallet and puts two $100 bills in and says "I think that'll cover it for the evening."

Well in the end he kept his language clean and insisted we keep the money, it was our holiday gift from him.

Still darn funny, at least to me. Do the math and picture the conversation. 200 / .25 =

 

[Finn]

For many years, when my Dad's brother's kids were little, and when that uncle's grandkids were little, Dad would call them on Christmas Eve pretending to be Santa Claus on way to Virginia.

On this one particular Christmas Eve many years ago when the two cousins closest to me were just old enough to understand the concept of Santa Claus and the whoe big deal, Dad called them as usual. Obviously my brother and I weren't aware of what Dad was doing then since we would have been still subject to the whole Santa mythology at the time. At one point, Dad told them that he was brining them a pony. My cousins naturally got excited and went off to tell my uncle....