NC for outing.
I hadn’t seen my family in over 3 years after moving away. First time I’m home is for Xmas one year so everyone makes an effort, siblings all come to DPs where I’m staying, I get to spend time with DN & DNs. All going well but one DB#1 having a bit too much fun. He’s never been good at holding his drink but back then he preferred pills and weed, add that to drink and we have a very obnoxious sleezy uncle roaming around, we manage to end everything nicely, pack DB & SIL who I’ve only just met off home In a taxi, it was only a 10-15 journey. There was a really heavy snow, the only car that wasn’t snowed in was my other DBs #2 car, this is relevant. Other relevant thing is my DM can be very nasty and manipulative.
So not long after DB1 gone, we are all getting ready for bed, other DB2 and family were staying at DPs as they lived 2 hours away. Next thing the phones ringing and it’s my SIL, they had gotten home, drunk DB tipping the taxi driver with all of their cash only to discover they didn’t have keys to get in. DB1 had left his keys at DPs so they could drop his car off the next day and SIL had given me her keys the day before after I stayed at their house, she asked me to post them through the door when I left. I did but she forgot to put them back on her key ring.
They get a taxi back to DPs where we pay for it, give the money for return trip and hand house keys over. DB1 is in a foul mood now, throws the keys into the snow, DF tries calming him down but he lets loose on DF he should just hurry up and fucking die, coming out with all this nasty stuff. This is we’re my DM comes in, turns out she had been filling my DBs head full of crap about DF dying for months (she’s a bit messed in the head that way).
So DB1 storms off. We find the keys and SIL goes home. We check she’s ok with this but she says it’s fine she can handle drunk DB.
By the time SIL gets home DB had kicked his front door down, he’s gotten himself angrier and angrier as he goes along. SIL who has a gob like a fog horn and towers over DB is going nuts. DB whose nickname as a child was Mr Angry is now so worked up he smashes the entire house up, literally every little thing is broken including SIL DSs Xmas toys he’s not even been given (4yo), he wasn’t there as he’d spent Xmas day with his dad and was due back Boxing Day.
So we need to get to the house ASAP. DPs & DB1s cars are snowed in, only other DB2s car wasn’t, but he’d had a few drinks. Myself, DM & other SIL all alcohol free, no other reason other than we could sense a storm coming with DB1. Now other DB2 is very precious about his new car, with good reason, I wouldn’t have attempted to drive it, I’d not long been driving and wouldn’t in the snow. DM, not a chance, she couldn’t have handled it, so it fell to SIL. obviously DB2 wasn’t letting his wife go alone and well DM is the only person to calm my DB1 down, even if she’s the one who messed with his head in the first place. If DB2 had just gone he would have just laughed at DB and told him to grow the fuck up which would have resulted in DB1 throwing a punch and DB2 knocking him to the ground. I had no desire to go as I would have said something to make it worse. I also wanted to stay with DF,
So they arrive back, SIL covered in blood, DM shaking, DB2 pissing him self laughing because DB1 has lost the plot, going nuts with a knife. We check SIL, blood was my DBs. My DF had been very quiet during all this especially after what DB has said to him, he dosnt react to things, he likes to observe before he speaks. Anyway he quietly asks if DB1 hit her, she says, like fuck he did but I fucking punched the shit head in the head a few times when he smashed my house and sons toys up. DFs response, very quietly, so let me get this right, you’ve been abusing my son, we all laugh as this lightened the mood.
Meanwhile DMs on the phone to the police. After she’s off her DB2 & SIL2 head back to meet the police. My DM wants him sectioned, she knows the right things to say as she works in mental health but the police are having none of it. Instead they threaten to arrest DB2 for trying to push it. They won’t arrest DB1 for smashing up his own home and he tells them he never had a knife. So they walk away.
The rest of the night is quiet, it was a time before everyone had mobile phones. What no one knew was I’d quietly unplugged the land lines so my DB could phone and cause more trouble. Which he apparently tried to do.
As we are all trying to settle we hear DF call out MERRY CHRISTMAS (my name) I bet your glad your home, we all burst out laughing.
Needless to say we never had a family Christmas again. The closest we got was 15 years later, we had planned on all being together after DF was diagnosed with a TI, we thought it was going to be his last. He died just before it. I think he did it on purpose because he didn’t want a repeat of the last family Xmas 😂 If he was alive he’d think it was funny and make a joke about it too x