Hi Tina - I think that thing with the Lentil Soup ( we always had to have at least a spoonful on New Years Eve) - is an Italian thing - that's what my very Italian grandmother (my Dad's mom) told us - it was supposed to bring good luck, health, happiness for the year to come.
Now, I really cant think of the worst Christmas present........hmm................oh yeah, one year a friend of mine just gave me a card - this was a long time ago, when I was about 21, we were at a Christmas party at my Grandmother's house and she gave me the card - we were pretty loaded already - she said "be careful" - I really wasnt paying attn and opened the card and two grams of coke fell out right in front of a bunch of people - I almost died. At the time I loved the present........now when I just think about it ..................eeeewwwwww...yuk I couldve killed that friend of mine!! How stupid was THAT to give me something like that with my parents in the same room!!! DUH!!!
Love,
Marie
xoxoxoxo.
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Yes You got it I'm Italian but I'm still waiting for all that good luck......mj
LOL Marie.......never heard of anyone getting coke in a Christmas card.......Yeah the lentile thing I know is a dago thing.......hate lentiles, my grandmother use to make them all the time........
Yeah Tina...................
I think inside the card it said something like "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ". Here's some "Miami Snow" Merry Christmas!!! LOL - Crazy friends of mine......
Love,
Marie
I think inside the card it said something like "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ". Here's some "Miami Snow" Merry Christmas!!! LOL - Crazy friends of mine......
Love,
Marie
LMAO
how about that one movie "some kinda wonderful" were the mother gift wraps tv dinners, & didnt someone giftrap a dead cat in one of chevy chase movies.
Brown, the cat was alive (at the time). That was Christmas Vacation. The same woman also put cat food in the jello mold.
This post made me laugh and then i got to thinking..."what was the worst present that i ever got?"
And then it hit me, the worst was one year, i ended up getting alot of little present from my mom and dad, and im talking about at least 12-or 13 different little presents. I was so exited to see what it was because all the presents were the exact same size and they were all wrapped the same. To my surprize, on x-mas day when i got to open them the first one was a par of underware, and so was the second and so was the third and so on and so on and so on until i got through all of them. Everyone was laughing and i was so embaressed that my face turned red.
How many people get new underware at our age from our mom's and dad's???
Needless to say, it was a huge joke on me.
But that was my worst present yet!!
Christina
And then it hit me, the worst was one year, i ended up getting alot of little present from my mom and dad, and im talking about at least 12-or 13 different little presents. I was so exited to see what it was because all the presents were the exact same size and they were all wrapped the same. To my surprize, on x-mas day when i got to open them the first one was a par of underware, and so was the second and so was the third and so on and so on and so on until i got through all of them. Everyone was laughing and i was so embaressed that my face turned red.
How many people get new underware at our age from our mom's and dad's???
Needless to say, it was a huge joke on me.
But that was my worst present yet!!
Christina
Danny, we are watching that movie again right now, then 9 months. i had this sister in law who bought stuff at garage sales (they were far from poor) for this new years trade game. the thing she had brought for her exchange gift was a used readers digest condensed books & i said to her husband (u didn't know who brought what ) what idiot brought that?
When my son was born, one of our neighbors brought over a used, dirty , undershirt. honest. bizarre.
an embarissing moment for me on a different holiday (though it wasnt embarissing to me till years later when i thought about it, then i thought it was funny but should have been embarrising) was on this Jewish holiday called Purim. thats a celebration of the destruction of this guy named Hamen who tried to massacre all the Jews a couple thousand years ago. One of the heros was Queen Esther, this beautiful lady who saved him.. There were a bunch of other Biblicle charachters. It is celebrated by costume parties & the giving of gifts & eating all kinds of special candies and stuff. Well, my jewish education wasn't all that intense, & our neighbors who were orthodox invited me with them to a Purim costume party at their temple. I went as a cowboy.
When my son was born, one of our neighbors brought over a used, dirty , undershirt. honest. bizarre.
an embarissing moment for me on a different holiday (though it wasnt embarissing to me till years later when i thought about it, then i thought it was funny but should have been embarrising) was on this Jewish holiday called Purim. thats a celebration of the destruction of this guy named Hamen who tried to massacre all the Jews a couple thousand years ago. One of the heros was Queen Esther, this beautiful lady who saved him.. There were a bunch of other Biblicle charachters. It is celebrated by costume parties & the giving of gifts & eating all kinds of special candies and stuff. Well, my jewish education wasn't all that intense, & our neighbors who were orthodox invited me with them to a Purim costume party at their temple. I went as a cowboy.
Just a quick note, John, I am laughing so hard I have tears pouring down my face. That cha cha chia thing is too funny. Which one did ya get?
Great and funny thread Tina, way to go! This is wonderful, and a good way to have some fun and share at the same time.
Major, welcome to the board, hope to get to know you better.
Lady M
Great and funny thread Tina, way to go! This is wonderful, and a good way to have some fun and share at the same time.
Major, welcome to the board, hope to get to know you better.
Lady M
Last night i was reading one of Danny's posts & my wife starts talking to me. SHes repectful enuf not to look at this board when im on it normally. so i pinted at it and said, "can't u see i'm busy taling to bullwinkle"
Hey Marie, that was a great one. what did u tell everybody. I'm thinkin u said excuse me, i have to use the bathroom & figured ud figure something as soon as u got out & the endorphins kicked in.
i remember one time my inlaws were bisitn in buffalo. i hardly new them & they were downstairs. staunch bornagin Christians, my father in law a bible salesman , very strict baptist like impression (boy was that a misrepresentation of charachter he projected).
Anyway, i'm upstairs, their downstairs, & my boss comes over & he had scorred some c for us. i hear him downstairs talkin all this nonsense talk to them cause he was flying, like me & Harry are goin to Florida soon (hurricane alice had come here) to set up a roofing business, & on & on & on. U had to be there, but u know how that c talk goes, & hes goin on & on & i'm thinkin for sure these guys are gonna know. it doesn't write out as funny as it was when i think about it.
Anyway, im off to Gatlenber, I'll probably post from there unless i get killed by hillbillies.
Hey Marie, that was a great one. what did u tell everybody. I'm thinkin u said excuse me, i have to use the bathroom & figured ud figure something as soon as u got out & the endorphins kicked in.
i remember one time my inlaws were bisitn in buffalo. i hardly new them & they were downstairs. staunch bornagin Christians, my father in law a bible salesman , very strict baptist like impression (boy was that a misrepresentation of charachter he projected).
Anyway, i'm upstairs, their downstairs, & my boss comes over & he had scorred some c for us. i hear him downstairs talkin all this nonsense talk to them cause he was flying, like me & Harry are goin to Florida soon (hurricane alice had come here) to set up a roofing business, & on & on & on. U had to be there, but u know how that c talk goes, & hes goin on & on & i'm thinkin for sure these guys are gonna know. it doesn't write out as funny as it was when i think about it.
Anyway, im off to Gatlenber, I'll probably post from there unless i get killed by hillbillies.
dog...lol..
just watch yer back...lol...
kerry
just watch yer back...lol...
kerry
