I hate Christmas. Who's with me?

Pollycat

DomRavioli wrote: »

If anyone else wants to cross examine me, please feel free to PM me. I have nothing to hide.

Please don't try to make this thread all about you.

Thanks.

red_devil

someone in our road has there tree up no doubt they will be sick of it in a few weeks. Nothing more magical than putting the tree up xmas eve.

SailorSam

GlasweJen wrote: »

Now I know they don't let 16 year olds work in a mortuary or in a funeral home,

When i was 16, that was 1969 so things change. But after we'd finished our 'O' levels and were all looking for Summer jobs, one of my mates got a job as a grave digger. He always was weird.

jozxyqk

TBeckett100 wrote: »

Christmas is odd.

When you are a couple, you alternative Christmas and boxing days with the parents and in laws so nobody feels left out. We have our own child and it would be nice to actually enjoy Christmas in the house I work all year for instead of sitting 5 to a sofa watching poor taste in television.

I suspect I will have to wait until deaths to occur before we can have Christmas at home as our own family unit lol by which time ours will have flown the nest

Take this Christmas. I have four sofas and a dining table that seats 8. However, we have to go to the in laws where there is one sofa and one armchair, 8 people and a dining table that seats 4. Cold metal garden chairs will be retrieved from winter retirement.

If dinner is at 1pm, we have to ensure our arrival 1hr before the other guests to reserve the sofa space.

We're in a similar situation. Each Xmas has involved travelling 100s of miles, more recently with a LO. Once we're there it's enjoyable (well, half of it is anyway) but it's become a real drag.


None of our parents is in the best of health and find it difficult to travel a long way, so if we stay home it would just be us in all likelihood. Fine by me but OH would be wracked with guilt.

Petra_70

I also never understand the having to go to peoples houses at Christmas thing either. I know a number of people who just HATE having to go to the in laws. A neighbour of mine with a little boy, goes to her husband's family for Christmas one year, and her family for new year, (the same year.) And then they switch it around the following year. They never spend Christmas at home, and she always says she dreads it. (His parents live 175 miles away, and her lives 135 miles away...one north, one south. So bizarre.)

Also, a friend of mine who is married with no kiddies (married 2 years,) has to spend Christmas with her husband's mother, even though she is not keen on her and feels awkward around her. Her hubby says they have to have Christmas at his mother's because she is alone, whereas my friend's parents have each other, and 2 children still at home. But my friend says it just ruins Christmas sitting at her MIL's house from 11am til 9pm. She has done it 5 years in a row now. How drab.

Why can people not just stay in their own home at Christmas? Especially if it makes them so miserable spending it at someone else's house! I agree that the poster - T Beckett- should probably have a word with their partner about this.

DomRavioli

Pollycat wrote: »

Please don't try to make this thread all about you.

Thanks.

The exact reason for the comment which this is the reply to is EXACTLY that.

Thanks for your valued input.

Petra_70

jozxyqk wrote: »

We're in a similar situation. Each Xmas has involved travelling 100s of miles, more recently with a LO. Once we're there it's enjoyable (well, half of it is anyway) but it's become a real drag.


None of our parents is in the best of health and find it difficult to travel a long way, so if we stay home it would just be us in all likelihood. Fine by me but OH would be wracked with guilt.

This is the issue with some people I think. It's the other person in the relationship. One wants to do it (go to relatives for Christmas) and one doesn't. Most of the time, the one who DOES want to go ends up winning, while the other one is just sitting there miserable.

Thing is, people have all YEAR to see relatives, and visit, and spend time with them, so why do they HAVE to do it at Christmas? :huh:

engineer_amy

I love Christmas - when it is confined to Xmas eve, Xmas day and boxing day. Spending time with family, seeing the niece and nephew open their toys, everyone helping out with the cooking and washing up. To be fair, there are no feuds in our family, everyone is very close and get on with each other so there is no stressing about saying the wrong thing or offending anyone. All of us live within 5 miles of each other so its easy to pop in or out if people have other things planned


What I hate is the 3 months of preparations that the country "has" to do/endure. Decorations up in shops in October, trees put up, Christmas adverts on TV and the constant pushing by companies reminding us that we have to spend lots of money buying useless tat. And it seems to start earlier every year.


Im seen as the grump in work as I refuse to let them put the tree up in the office before the second week of December.

Kantankrus_Mare

engineer_amy wrote: »

I love Christmas - when it is confined to Xmas eve, Xmas day and boxing day. Spending time with family, seeing the niece and nephew open their toys, everyone helping out with the cooking and washing up. To be fair, there are no feuds in our family, everyone is very close and get on with each other so there is no stressing about saying the wrong thing or offending anyone. All of us live within 5 miles of each other so its easy to pop in or out if people have other things planned


What I hate is the 3 months of preparations that the country "has" to do/endure. Decorations up in shops in October, trees put up, Christmas adverts on TV and the constant pushing by companies reminding us that we have to spend lots of money buying useless tat. And it seems to start earlier every year.


Im seen as the grump in work as I refuse to let them put the tree up in the office before the second week of December.

Exactly this............I'm sick of all the telly adverts already.!!

pol-zeath

DomRavioli wrote: »

As always, I have to justify my life to you people.

I did an apprenticeship at 16 (which is very normal). I'm a senior duty, and qualified as an AFP in 2003 (when I was 18). I work in a mortuary (hence the dry comment I added about never getting thanked by who came through the doors), where it is very normal to start your training at 16 (although not able to practice until 18 years old, I was employed by the NHS through their apprenticeship scheme). I also have a degree in the field from MU (now U of M).

I also never mentioned A&E or myself working in A&E, I've never worked with the living, not sure where you got that from (my mum did work in A&E a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure I've never mentioned it).

Anything else you need clarifying before you attempt to pull my life to pieces?

This is the last time I will reply to you - In post 167 you decided to write a spiel on how undervalued and overworked you are. In post 176 you describe the areas you supposedly cover as a SDO - Now this was before anyone queried what you were saying. Your comment on never being thanked by deceased clientele was in very poor taste - Adults and children who may have died in RTA's and other tragic circumstances as well as natural causes.

I have not trawled through your previous posts, I don't need to as I have an excellent memory for inconsequential detail - you made yourself extremely identifiable and this has increased my scepticism