Hey Pandas, What Was The Worst Christmas Disaster You've Had? (Closed)

It isn’t Christmas yet, but I think this still counts: a big Christmas tree fell on top of a teacher in school assembly. Luckily, no injuries, but a very talented photographer caught the teacher’s expression of shock on camera. The school newspaper kids decided it would be funny to publish the photos. The teacher was not amused.

I had spine surgery on the 27th. I was in a lot of pain beforehand so as a family we decided to celebrate Christmas after the surgery ... which was the dumbest decision I've ever made. No, I take that back. Having the surgery was the dumbest decision I've ever made. It was an absolute disaster. I cried for two weeks straight afterwards and I literally didn't move for two weeks. It was so painful. Almost all of the two week-long chunk of time is black in my memory because my brain repressed it so deep but it came back when my mom was telling me the story. Two weeks later I actually had to go to the ER in the worst pain imaginable and ultimately got it removed after like 9 hours in the ER. Worst experience of my life.

There was the one where my grandma got run over by a reindeer.

I got stuck in an Airbnb from snow and was trapped there for a week missing christmas

Ive never really had a bad christmas experience, but Im about to. This will be our first Christmas w our two mischievous cats, Roxy & Apollo. We will still have a tree. Knowing those two, this can only end in disaster

My mom died on December 20th 2010, found my MIL dead in the bathroom after checking on her after not answering the phone on Sunday December 23rd. When I walked into her house my first words were DI, you could have called us if you were going to the church musical. I walked right by the bathroom door and didn't see her till I turned around. We figured that she just died instantly, her hand was still up combing her getting ready for church that morning.
My husband threatened my Dad that he would haunt him in reverse if he died around Christmas.

My granddad fell down the apples and pears and was never rlly the same

Not me but my friend, his family found a huge mouse in their pantry on Christmas, and had to throw it all away. He called it the "Christmas Mouse Incident" lol

I'm young, like five-seven, visiting grandparents with Mom and Dad. This is in North Dakota, grandparents live on a large plot of land, have some horses and a dog. They're very white and so Christian. Like, there's five representations of Jesus in every room.

Grandpa likes to tell stories. I'm in the living room, playing. Grandma is outside with the dog. Grandpa is telling stories to my parents. He casually uses the N-word, hard R. Parents start trying to calmly explain why you do NOT use that word. He claims it's fine. Argument grows. Ends with Grandpa shutting himself off in his office for the next few days. These are on my Dad's side. Mom doesn't really visit them anymore, especially since they watch a ton of Fox news and are very pro-Trump.

We are ALL very white btw.

Many years ago, a cousin decided that year, all the cousins "draw names" to exchange gifts. Christmas rolls around and gifts are exchanged; except I, nor my siblings receive gifts. The cousin who suggested this con had lots of siblings and I guess they all drew our names but didn't purchase gifts. It's been over 55 years, and I'm still a little salty over this.

My brother was 7 years younger than me so when he "aged" my mother took me aside and told me to pretend I still believed in Santa for his sake. She did not know that I still believed. It was an odd family but it destroyed me.

Many many years ago. My first Christmas with new boyfriend, friends and some family expected for dinner. I found a recipe in a cookbook ( no internet in those days!) on how to cook a turkey faster wrapped in foil. A few hours later everyone is gathered for the big reveal and I whip the foil off the turkey only to see pieces flying in the air and stuck to the foil. Yes you guessed it I had forgotten to oil the foil and the bird. We managed to scrape off enough chunks so everyone got some.
Not my worst Christmas but notable anyway. My worst Christmas I am not ready to share.
Happy holidays everyone!

We loaded up the car with gifties and the dog and headed for Maine. It was drizzling, but the weather report said it would stay warm. As we neared the New Hampshire border, the rain turned into sleet, then big flakes. The untreated roads (remember it was supposed to be warm?), sleet on the ground and ever heavier snow made driving difficult. As we passed over the border into New Hampshire, we lost count of the number of cars and trucks who had spun out and were on the sides of the roads. The snow got even heavier and we needed a safe place to go. We made it to the Kittery (Maine) traffic circle, I threw the car into low and didn't stop for anything until we made it to an open McDonald's. I parked the car and both of us burst into tears from the stress of that drive. We looked at the weather radar and we were surrounded by bright pink (ice, sleet) on either side. We thought we'd be stuck there, but the pink turned to green (rain) to our south and we safely booked it home and completely collapsed from the strain. Called the fam and said we couldn't make it. I think we exchanged gifts sometime in July the following year.

Worked in a bakery around 10 years ago and my sister offered me to drive me to work at 01:00 o'clock. I said it's fine, I can walk but she insisted

So, we slowly drove through the village and came up to the rather high bridge that goes over the local train tracks. The streets were clear, the bridge was not. We slid, hit the guardrails 3 times left and right before stopping parallel to the street.
The car was a total but still able to drive to a more protected area.

My sister and me had to stay home for a week for very minor back injuries

My brother and I being forced to go see my grandma on my "dad's" side of the family against our wills for Christmas 2020. My "dad's" side of the family is pretty bad for guilt tripping, so my brother and I got guilt tripped into going there.

It was a very uncomfortable 3 hour lunch my brother and I had, almost feeling like an interrogation as to we couldn't be there, or in contact much more... despite him being a busy mover, and me working in retail.

Luckily I didn't have have to see my dumbáss "dad" that day, so there's that as a silver lining.

On a more upbeat note, the only other notable disaster were the mashed potatoes that I made the following year's Christmas. Can never nail them successfully by myself.

no power for a week (including christmas)

Getting my first period on Christmas. This was ten years ago

Visiting dad with my partner of 3 years. My 2 sisters are there with their boyfriends. One is a new hookup, the other is off and on. We exchange gifts and my dad gives gifts to the boyfriends, but nothing to my partner. When I ask about where her gift is, he says he didn't get her anything. I looked at her and said we're leaving. We packed up and left. I was super pissed and deeply hurt, but he thought it was a phase. We've been together for 24 years and married for 5. Ha!

An almost disaster: The oven element failed while my mom was cooking the turkey. Of course no place is open Xmas day to get a replacement. Luckily for us my father had gifted my mother with a microwave oven that year. Crisis averted.

I guess not really Christmas, but at a new year's party, I was coming home and I was tired, and there was ice on the ground. I was walking to my steps and I didn't see the ice, and nearly lost my eye. I didn't hit my eye, but super close