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

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

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!

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!

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.

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 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.

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

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!

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!

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!

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
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.

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!

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!

PS sorry, is there a 'smug' icon?

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!