Things that should be punishable at Christmas! (light hearted)

People who cut into the buffet line with a full plate saying "Hope you don't mind......I just need to get to the roast beef,..."

The friend who never allows you to finish a complete thought before they interrupt .......constantly!

Attaching charm tags to your wine glasses so guests can identify and someone who empties your wine glass anyway, insisting that ".... 'Green Christmas Tree' tag looked just like the 'Red Santa Claus" !!

Inebriated people who 'lose' their wine glasses.

Wine glass with"Red Santa" tag turning up in the loo next day.

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and may the New Year ring in many blessings!

PS sorry, is there a 'smug' icon?

We spent rather a lot of money going abroad this Christmas. It was the first time we'd done it and I did wonder whether it would be worth it. But for all the reasons on this thread, (as well as it being a lovely break), it SO was!

People who eat a sweet/chocolate from a box, and put the empty wrapper back in the box
Benny Hill also didn't think much of people who put choccies with hard centres back in the box with the teeth marks still showing!

Happygirl79
I have a couple of friends like that but I can get rid of them by saying, with a big , 'Sorry, I'm going to have to throw you out, I'm expecting my family over tomorrow and I've heaps to do.'

If they offer to help, I give them a spray and cloth and ask them to clean the bathroom and toilet.

There are many excuses you can use, it just takes a little imagination and a smidgen of firmness.

It's actually harder to get rid of someone on the phone but I've cracked that as well. Cut yourself off when you are speaking. Then take the phone off the hook.

No one ever believes it's deliberate. Yes, sneaky but I have friends who can talk for 4+ hours if I let them, by which time I am under the table and totally demented.

Parents who allow their children to load their plates up (after touching every morsel of food on the buffet table) when they know they won't eat it all. It drives me insane especially when the plates are then left on the floor to be kicked over and trodden in to the carpet. I love my family dearly but could murder them cheerfully on such occasions.
Daughter-in-laws who manage to get up and choose their food from the table so they can stuff their faces with as much food as they can cram in but then can't take their plates out to the kitchen so they make a big fuss when their husband doesn't feel inclined to run round after them. Get off your fat @r5e, love. I can vent on here but tend to smile sweetly at the time!

Happygirl79 That one gets me too! A few years ago I was undergoing chemotherapy (anyone who has knows it can knock you for six), a "friend" showed up to visit and DH, a very hospitable man, made the mistake of opening a bottle of wine which turned into several. After a few hours I said I was tired and was going to lie down. Anyone else would have taken the hint and left - not her. She stayed on and eventually had to spend the night because she was unfit to drive!

People who overstay their welcome every single time
They say they will pop in for a quick coffee at 10 am and are still there at tea time!

Ninarosa. Yes my husband does that, he always says 'what's nice for tea?'. It drives me potty (along with a lot of other things he does!). I usually say that I haven't decided and depends what I fancy cooking when I open the fridge. Sometimes I tell him one thing but bring him something different!

Nothing more to add, I agree with everything That's been said. What a great thread though, I don't feel quite so annoyed now that I know it's not just me

I should like to meet the person who decided to stick the descriptions of every biscuit in the metal tin, on the bottom of the tin itself, rather than in the lid as it opens.

I'd stuff him with biscuits, possibly not from the top.

I would like to put an embargo on folks who talk about their surgical operations all through Christmas Dinner. Or their confinements, dental extractions and what they said to the rude doctor who told them to lose weight and exercise.

I have put a note in my diary not to buy every item that a person might want to eat, or drink, the house is full to bursting, I have aleeady given lots away, tomorrow it's the savoury , nachos, chilli dips and fancy biscuits which are going to the foods bank, I don't eat them and no one else did , will hang on to coke, lemonade and fruit juice until nearly at it's best before date. I am conditioned after all these years of buying every food item in site at vvChristmas as if we were going into a famine.

Have loved reading all these and going "that's me! That's me!". We did Christmas this year for all thr family on Boxing Day. As always great fun but enormously hard work, virtually entirely by me. DH worked from home on 27th so spent a few hours in front of his computer and spent the rest of the day and evening telling me how hard he had worked, even though I had been pottering and tidying all day. I almost told him that come the revolution he will be first up against the wall and have all the cold left over sprouts fired at him, before being doused in cold gravy!

Those people who come for a meal, appear to enjoy it but then leave without thanks and don’t follow up either with a card, phone call, email or text message! Rude!

I could have cheerfully shot the postman who delivered 2 credit card bills the day after Boxing Day.

Why, when I am urged to buy very expensive crackers "Because the presents inside are so much better," do I find all the presents left on the table when everyone has gone?

Husband loves to monopolise the conversation and only ever wants to talk about himslef, guess how many times I have heard this!
Christmas Day my Grandson brought his girlfriend,she was so considerate being a vegetarian she brought what she wanted and could eat.
Boxing day a couple came,the wife a vegetarian, not so considerate, she didnt bring anything but said she could just eat the accompmients! fortunately we had some vegetarian food left from Christmas Day. People who need special diets should think of the host family,and at least try to have something with them,otherwise shot at dawn.

Those who say, oh I’m much too full, after you have made three different desserts, then twenty minutes later clean you out of the quality street!

Love it! That's my family!

DIL who arrives as late as possible before Christmas and announces next day that she hasn't slept well, feels poorly and is going home!

As far as we could see all that was wrong with her was a pain in the temper and a disagreement with DS.

However, we wished her a speedy recovery and said, "of course dear, if you aren't well, you would much rather be at home."

The last thing I would have wanted to do, if I was feeling unwell was to travel by bus from one end of the country to the other, but there's nowt so queer as folk, is there?

Parents who tell me their children will eat anything when I ask about any dislikes. Then their children flatly refuse to eat anything offered to them and ask for something I don't have! I'm not used to fussy eaters, it's eat what's offered in our house or go without. Said children then complain that they're hungry for the rest of the day and I'm expected to jump up and make something they like. Thankfully these kids are not my GC - they wouldn't dare!

People who say 'you shouldn't have wasted your money buying me a present' Why can't people just accept gifts graciously?

Grown children who show up to eat on Christmas, watch their children open tons of presents from me, then leave without even a thank you.

I would gladly put my ex in this category, not only Christmas but all year if I am spending time with my DD’s he somehow mysteriously turns up. Christmas this year, prime example, and he left his now wife at home, saying it’s not a problem as we have a strong relationship.

Aepgirl ??? Please explain your post of 11.06 (I'm glad you're not coming, but would be interested to know why you are glad! )