Festive Meltdown Audit

[colon_closed_bracket]

Did you make a joke about Rooibos?

[anon44377095]

Been treading very carefully around a bunch of possible powder-kegs today, so far managed to avoid any of them - this is in a family that has seen crying, yelling, and full-blown running away to the station at Christmas so that’s a win! Solidarity with the meltdowners, it’s not easy.

[laelfy]

My extended family are so painfully polite that there will never, ever be a meltdown or argument.

[shrewbie]

Realised my family fight way less when my gfs here. Would recommend everyone bring a buffer to reduce conflict

[froglet]

Unfortunately my family don’t fight any less when my bf is there and it does seem to scare my bf so i try to keep him away for the most part

[Avery]

I’m going to have to ask for context here?

[pervo]

Kept it to myself but feeling pretty aggy about my uncle making some shitty comment about gay people when my aunt was telling me about a hen do my cousin is organising. She told him to keep his opinions to himself but he had a proper snarly face on when he made the comment… Ugh.

[nav]

My Grandma was mentioning the ‘muslims and
Nigerians’ on some kings college carol concert shite and I asked her what the problem was and pointed out it was a woman with her hair covered by a scarf and a man with a strong South London accent. She rescinded her comment and clarified that it was a good thing

Dont want to get ahead of myself but think Brexit is over

[infinite_jest]

Basically passed without hitch, which is nice as my in-laws can be tense (we’re at their house). I had a bit of a minor meltdown over the noise (loads of overlapping conversations, kids banging away on piano and shouting) but mostly kept it to myself, and it was generally a pretty lovely day. Solidarity/hugs/etc to all those who had a worse time of it.

[colon_closed_bracket]

All proper tea is theft

[meowington]

The best meltdown was my bf’s family like to take turns to play a song each on Spotify once everyone’s had a few drinks. It’s mostly alright cause we all know what each other likes but my bfs brothers girlfriend doesn’t really like music and has the hump when it’s a song she doesn’t know. Anyway she was badgering her bf to play a song she knew when it was his turn to put on something and he just snapped and shouted “LET ME PICK MY SONG FFS!!” And it was great and I loved it.
And then his other brothers girlfriend shouted “James Brown!!” And the first brother in this story put James Brown on and his girlfriend was like “oh you listen to her but you won’t listen to me?!” And me and my bf are just trying not to laugh

[1101010]

F’s meltdown lasted at least 30 minutes and I had to take away a whole bunch of her toys. It was all because we asked her to go upstairs and clean her teeth

She had a second nuclear meltdown after waking up from her car nap long after the car had stopped and we were trying to help her come and sleep inside.

[CeeJay]

Currently having a sort of meltdown in slow motion as I’m too ill do do it any other way.

I’ve had a sodding cold now for the best part of a fortnight and can’t shake it off. On the 23rd I developed conjunctivitis, on Christmas eve our two year old started vomiting and then last night our four year old puked as well. And now I’ve got the shits. And I’m staring at a mountain of laundry.

Appreciate this is all quite minor in the great scheme of things but this is the first full fortnight I’ve had off work for about five years and it all feels so unfair (flounces into bedroom sobbing).
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(flounces back out for a poo)

[barleysugar]

Got into a fight with Father Christmas

Saying I don’t help out with feeding the reindeers as much as I used to when I was younger. I reminded him that I’ve never helped out with feeding the reindeers and the only reason he now needs help is that he’s fucking pissed and incompetent. He starts raging at me ‘you bastard little upstart’ and how I’ve got this attitude off my mother. Comes at me with a spade, I dodge it and he ends up twatting his head off one of the deers antlers, so they all start kicking off. He’s still attached by the reins and getting dragged by his arse along the floor. I’m in tears laughing at this point. Can see his bright red face barely able to get words out he’s so angry as he gets dragged down the hill out of view.

Catch up with him ten minutes later. He’s standing in a field, no pants on, sipping from a glass of whiskey. Lost all his deer. Told him “That just sums you up. You utter, utter fucking joke.”

[Fintans_Cat]

In-laws came round to ‘help’ despite consistently saying to them that we wanted to spend Christmas as a family of 4 what with everything that’s happened. They insisted on coming anyway saying they would handle all the food etc.

Showed up 2 hours late then told me to get in the kitchen and make lunch, whilst mother in law sat holding the baby and throwing a load of presents and chocolate at our daughter. Was absolutely fuming tbh and I didn’t exactly hold back. They also bought their dreadful dog and stepson to our tiny house.

[1101010]

This sounds mega stressful TBH. Sorry mate.

[Fintans_Cat]

It sucked but it’s only a day and our daughter had a nice time. It annoyed me cause it’s all for bragging rights against my father in law (I had baby’s first Christmas with him etc) and we don’t need the help, we’re doing fine! ‘Sorting the dinner’ was just a pretense that we’d look ungrateful to turn down which didn’t sit very well with me at all, plus the fact that they did fuck all when we weren’t meant to be ‘lifting a finger’…just fuck off. Bleurgh.

Always prefer Boxing Day anyway.

[profk]

meltdown 2 avoided

you know when the argument and participants are so stupid and nonsensical you can’t even bring yourself to choose a side.

[profk]

tbh, this one was started by me asking ‘what was that about last night then, eh’? which quickly turned into a completely different argument with me moonwalking out the room highfiving everyone as I go

[rich-t]

Who was having a threesome?