To ask the worst behaviour at Christmas you’ve witnessed by an adult?

[SoniaFouler]

Mine is:

Drunk cousin (24 at the time) shouting and arguing with everyone for most of Boxing Day three years ago, then topped it off when someone told her to stop being stupid by standing up and scraping the entire contents of her dinner plate all over the table and made my aunt cry.

wow! what an emotional rollercoaster this thread is!

I really do hope that all of you have a lovely xmas this year and every year from now on!

I would take pleasure in that title as it shows you stood up for yourself and did the only thing possible - got out of there. What a nasty pile of crap, he and his family are.
To be fair, his family was told that we are divorcing and are civil to an extent that we decided to behave like grown ups and give the children a fantastic Christmas.
I won't say that the d-word wasn't mentioned at all between us in the heat of the moment, but I had no idea that it was already fully decided from his side and that he had already found someone new.

Hello drunk cousin

@Isabellabasil

Hello drunk cousin

She refused to hand over a 'cheese' to me because I missed out an 'R' on the who wrote Lord of the Rings question, I had answered J R Tolkien, and not J R R Tolkien

Ooh, exactly the same thing happened to me when I was 14!

Mil insisting that we open dcs presents when she facetimed and in what order. We said we wanted to wait till the afternoon as dc just wasn't interested in any other presents at that particular point. Mil just wouldn't give up, so we said OK and helped dc opened the presents (dc was one years old at the time) and sure enough, she barely looked at them and went back to playing with her toys from 'Santa'
Mil was all disappointed and really put out by it, Dh said "thats why we wanted to wait till later". It was bizarre.
She does it on birthdays too (and at my baby shower) she forces you to open them and makes a big scene about it so much that it becomes awkward.

Another time my db got so pissed on Xmas day that he kept falling over, falling off chairs, managed to insult a couple of family members, just generally being very loud and annoying, knocking drinks over etc. We all love him to bits but he's a nightmare when he's had a few drinks, he's a lightweight and just can't handle his booze. He felt very embarrassed afterwards and since then, just sticks to 1 or 2 drinks on Xmas day!

@RaPumPumPumPum - really? You don’t believe that people attack people for no reason? Alcohol (and other substances) acts as lubrication for long-standing resentments. It is also well-known that people under the influence are more likely to be disinhibited, and care less about the consequences of their actions. When you throw in the heady mix of unmet personal and family expectations, career pressures, the constant stream of media bullshit being hurled at you, everyone always feels like they’re missing out on…. SOMETHING… parties, alcohol, sleepless nights, depression, anxiety, the build up to NYE and the reality check that nothing has changed at all and you’re back on the boring old roundabout of life, with the same people who demand to see you whether they like, love, respect or even know you, and their list of expectations?

You don’t believe that things don’t just kick off?

Some people also have mental health problems.

My EXH got hammered on red wine at a party at my step-Aunts house and threw up EVERYWHERE.

He was made to sleep in the conservatory where there was an easily cleanable floor and we were separated by the following Christmas.

@PermanentTemporary

I had something to add to this thread but it's so tiny I'm not going to after reading all these. In fact strongly considering stopping drinking, not because I've ever behaved like this but less of a drinking culture in this country would be good.

@PermanentTemporary I think that is what we can take from this thread. It’s what I took from my childhood and indeed adulthood with my parents. Drunkenness and family events do not mix and being festive is having a couple of drinks , it doesn’t have to be more

@RaPumPumPumPum

I’d quite like to hear the other people’s side of some of these stories as I just don’t believe people physically attack their family members on Christmas Day ‘for no reason whatsoever’

What would be an acceptable reason to attack someone?

[quote Jacaranda75]@Shannith thank you, that’s really kind. Luckily, Christmases are very different for my DC. We don’t go crazy with presents, etc but there is no drunkenness or aggression in our house and our DC know they are loved and cherished.[/quote]
That's sounds wonderful. Your DC are lucky to have you

@PowerhouseOfTheCell

Went to the pubs Xmas Eve with some friends, one friends mum turns up wasted with a group of men we don’t know. Declares to the whole pub she’s had a gang bang and just been fingered in the beer garden! Absolute silence descends. My friend and her mum ended up scrapping in a bus shelter. We’ve never spoken of it again but every time I go past that pub I shudder

Is being "fingered in the beer garden" a euphemism?

@RaPumPumPumPum

I’d quite like to hear the other people’s side of some of these stories as I just don’t believe people physically attack their family members on Christmas Day ‘for no reason whatsoever’

Nice bit of victim blaming there!

i saw two grown men fighting over a 'Turbo-Man' action figure

One even attempted to buy a figure from a counterfeit toy brand run by con men dressed in Santa suits, which resulted in a massive fight in the warehouse, which was broken up when the police arrive. He narrowly escapes arrest by posing as an undercover officer.

Would you then believe he attempts to steal a Turbo-Man doll bought for another boy but can't bring himself to steal from a child. Unfortunately, he is caught in the act.

All ends will in the end and Arnold, however, when his wife asks what he got for her for Christmas he shockingly realises that he forgot to get her a gift.

Many moons ago, I drank far too much rum, put on the lovely winter coat mum had bought me for Christmas and curled up in front of the fire on the floor and slept for hours in my coat. Mum had never seen me so drunk. I'm the good child 😂

Dp getting a bit carried away cleaning up and managed to throw away dds sea monkey eggs........ Dd chasing him up the street calling him a murderer is an abiding memory😂😂😂

@junglejane66 - misses point entirely… There’s Turbo Man action figurines??? Googling for DH’s present. (He’s so hard to buy for! Remembers am in Aus and glacial speed of Aussie Post. Cries.)

@ClaudiaJ1 yes, now happily married for 20years.

[quote Justilou1]@junglejane66 - misses point entirely… There’s Turbo Man action figurines??? Googling for DH’s present. (He’s so hard to buy for! Remembers am in Aus and glacial speed of Aussie Post. Cries.)[/quote]
I think Junglejane may have outed herself as Mrs Schwarzenegger

@Ellen888

Two of the family were playing Chinese Chequers with my grandparents. My grandad got fed up because my nan kept moving her pegs up the 'ladders' he'd made and winning. So he snatched up the board and chucked, it pegs and all, onto the open fire. It didn't half go up with a bang. They never bought another set and we kids were forbidden to talk about it.....

Sorry but this had me in stitches 🤣

Several years ago, went to my dad's for Christmas, he lives with his partner and her daughter was visiting with her European boyfriend. Step dad and my DM were invited over for a drink, step dad had been drinking and started being racist towards the European boyfriend, accusing him of coming here and taking people's jobs (the usual racist hatred), things got a bit heated, people got upset and eventually he left. I feel embarrassed that my mum didn't say anything, she just kept her mouth shut whilst he spouted abuse. They haven't been invited over to my dad's since.

@junglejane66@jungle - embarrassed now. I was thinking of Thermoman. 🤭