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.

[DevonSunsets]

If memory serves she made a homophobic and very racist 'joke' to a very senior manager.

When called out on it, she doubled down and got pugnacious in the way only the truly drunk can get when they have decided they are right and everyone else is wrong.

I was told that she stormed off towards the dance floor much to the relief of everyone, for them to realise with horror she had made her way to the DJ snatched the mic from him then announced to the crowd that she had. been. making. a. joke. and it was funny right? to then repeat the 'joke'

Chaos erupted as people and staff lunged at her with her screaming that she had a right to the freedom of speech and if anyone touched her she would sue.

My mother repeats to this day that they were uptight AH's who were way to 'PC' and just couldn't take a joke

(the disciplinary did relate to another incident in combination with this one later on but I am sure my family member would likely not want me to mention that here - but the above gives you idea)

[SoniaFouler]

@LakieLady

Wow, I thought this thread was going to be light-hearted and funny.

for everyone who has such awful Christmas memories.

I feel a bit sad for making the thread and reading through it and it’s a lesson learned that thread titles are very important and I should have called it the most spoiled behaviour from an adult at Christmas because I thought it’d be full of funny tales, like the MIL stropping and throwing presents down the stairs like a child (apologies to that poster if the memory isn’t funny to them but the vision made me laugh).

[CityMumma78]

RaPumPumPumPum
Stop, just stop!!
You clearly have absolutely no experience of DV or living with an alcoholic parent so stop making naive, insulting and antagonising comments.

[Punfreeusername]

I wonder what percentage of people really think that Christmas is " The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year ".

Some awful experiences here, and this isn't including those who have been bereaved around Christmas, who are on their own etc.

I feel so lucky I haven't got any really bad stories..I'll look at my selfish, lazy BIL differently now, just try to enjoy his humour and conversation, try and look to the positives rather than the stuff that could be better.

To those in this thread that have shared their awful, abusive experiences ...please try and take a small crumb of comfort in that you've made other people count their blessings and appreciate what they have a little more.

[again2020]

@riceuten Your friends husband sounds like my 'DP'..can totally see me doing that one day

[again2020]

Some of these are horrifying.

In 2013 my parents had a huge argument and my mum held a knife up and told us she was going to slash her arm.
My brother's birthday is Christmas eve and between the ages of 17 and 25 ish he was regularly so hungover on Christmas day he was in bed til mid afternoon and couldn't eat his meal, my dad went mad and told him not to come back every year.
What a thread. for those who have had some appalling Christmases. Hoping for better ones ahead x

[PlacidPenelope]

@1madMama

Just now by about 120 total snobs on this forum

Care to elaborate?

[crispsinasandwich]

@Buzzer3555

My mum got pissed and broke all my daughters Christmas presents then shat in her bed.

You win!

[Offmyfence]

[quote 1madMama]@PlacidPenelope Yes; I was just talking about my human rights being violated and it seemed to make people really angry. I’m still trying to work out if that was a true reflection of public opinion.[/quote]
How is that bad behaviour you've witnessed at Christmas?

[EerieSilence]

@1madMama What are you talking about?
Who are those snobs?
Do you know what being a snob means?

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

Sorry, @1madMama - I cannot make any sense of your posts. What ‘human rights’ have been violated, and why are there 120 snobs on this thread?

[Arrowheart]

This government. This Christmas. Covering up and gaslighting us all about last Christmas. That's the worst behaviour I've seen by adults at Christmas.

[AnnieSnap]

@1madMama I too have no idea what you are saying. Your last post to clarify, didn’t succeed. I didn’t understand that either 🤷‍♀️

[mbosnz]

@1madMama

Oh, no not in this thread. I was just adding my thought to all these interesting stories. Is that normal though ? A swarm of hate to random on the internet you don’t agree with ?

I thought it was more polite English inquiry as to whether you might have lost your way and need help to find your way to the thread you really wanted to nut off in?

[Cheeseandlobster]

1madmama is salty and, well, mad, because her previous thread got deleted I think

[Offmyfence]

@1madMama

Because it’s Christmas Offmyfence.

No it's. It! It's December, the whole of December is not Christmas? The rhyme the 12 days of Christmas should assist!

[Offmyfence]

@1madMama

Oh, no not in this thread. I was just adding my thought to all these interesting stories. Is that normal though ? A swarm of hate to random on the internet you don’t agree with ?

Yeah on MN that's pretty standard!

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

I don’t see a swarm of hate on here, @1madMama - more a swarm of bafflement.

[IAAP]

@CaputApriDefero

When I was 17 I spent Christmas at my then boyfriends parents house. We'd been together two years and oh my fucking god, his mum was so so so spiteful. She loaded up a stocking for BF and stuck a sticky label on a pair of Poundland gloves for me and left them on the floor. She had been given all my presents by my mum, including my stocking. There was a huge pile of gifts under their tree, none of them for me, which was a bit heartbreaking, and she prepared all their Christmas dinner with something I'm allergic to so I couldn't eat it. Then exploded with rage at how much of "an ungrateful, council estate raised tramp" I was when I discretely excused myself so I could cry in their toilet without drawing attention to myself. I could hear her ranting her head off and telling my boyfriend he could do better, why couldn't he go out with her friend Carol's daughter, they own their own house etc. When I went back in, all she did was glare at me along with her mother and father. She didn't give me a turn at charades, told me
I looked like a stripper in my red dress and told
me I couldn't have a glass of Buck's Fizz because I wasn't 18, while her 15 year old daughter had her glass topped off. When I went home the next day, she handed me two carrier bags full of my presents and my stocking and said "oh, I forgot about these."

She threatened to write him out of her will when he proposed to me. Apparently she was going to throw a party when we broke up three years later. I saw her in a supermarket when I was 35. She was having a fucking meltdown over there being no fresh chicken stock and I couldn't help but laugh while looking straight at her. Her name was Karen. If you're reading this, Karen F, fuck you!

Oh my god my lovely I wish I could hug you - and no one pulled her up on her abuse - dodged a bullet there imagine having her for a mother - what a total bitch

[mbosnz]

@1madMama

mbosnz not really, just confused. I stabbed myself in the eardrum earlier so I’ve been wincing in pain seeing stars in my eyes and talked at the same time

You're not a doberman dog are you? There was one mentioned earlier that got stabbed in the eardrum with a corkscrew?