Trashed, smashed, sloshed and juiced!

[ausdreamer]

So it happens to the Buchanans every christmas....last year for example, my hubby was loaded before lunchtime, the oven door broke and he served up turkey skin with brussel sprouts to his father....

 

Well this year he went out for a works christmas lunch yesterday, left the house at 10 a.m and got back at 10 p.m. Rather a long time for lunch! He managed to get to the train station 15 miles from home but not the one he went from which is only a mile! So he would'nt pay the taxi fee which was double the amount due to the bad road conditions. So how did this mullered man get home... well he contacted our local Indian Restaurant to come and collect him and said he would order a take away from them.....Yes they did and brought him home however, he was to piddled to eat it! :laugh:

 

Do you have any christmas antics you would like to share?

[BritChickx]

I really don't. I have been sober every Christmas lol, I know I know, shocking!

[Guest guest37336]

Hi Ausdreamer.

 

Even when smashed that husband of yours still had the ingenuity to solve a problem, good man.:laugh::idea:

 

Once arrived at Heathrow from Australia on Christmas Day due to a looonnnggg delay in Perth many moons ago with my dad. The car the company had provided wouldn't start as it had been at the airport a week. No shops etc, open.

 

So we called my uncle out to pick us up. However he was too drunk to come out. We eventually found a pub open in Hatton Cross, and decided to call a cab. Bloody cold, so we had a few too many, missed the cab call.

 

Around 4 p.m. 'I' decided to start hitching a lift. I was around 19 at the time and my dad 60. You can imagine the scene I hope, two drunk rather jet lagged blokes hanging around Hatton Cross station doing all we could to get a lift.

 

And we did indeed get several lifts. OK, it took nearly 9 hours to travel 60 miles but we eventually got dropped off within a mile of our house.

 

Great days, me and my dad often laugh about it, however my mum doesn't yet see the funny side.:biglaugh:

 

Cheers Tony.:wink:

[ausdreamer]

I really don't. I have been sober every Christmas lol, I know I know, shocking!

 

I am not surprised, you are always working young lady....by the way, what do you do?

x

[BritChickx]

I'm loving the stories, keep em coming!

 

Ausdreamer: This is the first Christmas I've worked, but the other 2 before I've had work boxing day and before that I was underage so my family were always hesitant to give me alcohol lol. I'm a care worker.

[ausdreamer]

I have just pictured this Tony. Fantastic you can look back on that story, you do have to laugh about them. It did take me till this christmas to laugh about last years, as there is always a new christmas antic to take its place.

 

Jetlag and booze....always a very interesting combination lol....

 

Merry christmas x

[ausdreamer]

I'm loving the stories, keep em coming!

 

Ausdreamer: This is the first Christmas I've worked, but the other 2 before I've had work boxing day and before that I was underage so my family were always hesitant to give me alcohol lol. I'm a care worker.

 

....there you are. What a rewarding job but hard, is it? But very unsociable hours. Are you only a youngen Britchick?

[ausdreamer]

I really don't. I have been sober every Christmas lol, I know I know, shocking!

 

I would say that I am normally sober also as have to be to look after my hubby....now I have mini me to look after also. You never know, he might just let me let my hair down soon...after all, I am a kangaroo with a pint, we have needs :biggrin:

[BritChickx]

I'm 19. It is rewarding, can be tough sometimes, but all part of the package I suppose!

 

My mums like you, stays sober so she can look after my stepdad!

[Guest The Ropey HOFF]

great avitar Britchickx

 

We spend christmas day with the kids, its the best sight there is seeing the kids open their presents.

[ausdreamer]

I'm 19. It is rewarding, can be tough sometimes, but all part of the package I suppose!

 

My mums like you, stays sober so she can look after my stepdad!

 

Great age, just starting out. Are you planning on an Aus move or visit on day?

 

Now I should be cleaning a bathroom as inlaws due from Wales in an hour....oops, like talking to you....

[BritChickx]

Great age, just starting out. Are you planning on an Aus move or visit on day?

 

Now I should be cleaning a bathroom as inlaws due from Wales in an hour....oops, like talking to you....

 

And I should be wrapping Christmas pressies! Lol.

 

I'm going out on a WHV next year, then coming back to start Uni (Nursing). If I like it I would like to move eventually :smile:

[ausdreamer]

And I should be wrapping Christmas pressies! Lol.

 

I'm going out on a WHV next year, then coming back to start Uni (Nursing). If I like it I would like to move eventually :smile:

 

oops, we are cheaky buggars are'nt we....lol

 

Wow, you are heading in the right direction. Very rewarding things you are doing and going to do. Hard work but all the same, rewarding.

 

Before I head off with my rubbery glovies on and peg on nose to clean the bog, where will you visit in Aus next yr?

[BritChickx]

Want to start off in Perth then after working for a few months, travel to:

Adelaide, Alice Springs, Darwin, Cairns, down the East Coast to Sydney, Melbourne then back to Perth to fly home .

[Guest guest37336]

Hi Heidi.

 

You've got me going now.

 

I used to live in Broome, WA, with my ex wife, :wubclub:. We had done the normal beach Christmas etc, but this year (2002) we decided that we were going to go for it, the full works, Turkey, all the trimmings.

 

Bearing in mind that it was around 37 degrees at the time in the shade you can imagine. We had the smallest of units on the Broome Vacation Village and the air conditioning could only be described as 'archaic', :shocked:.

 

This was when I did drink, so as time went by, the worse we got. Oven on, fans on, air con on. However around every ten minutes or so the electricity we were using in the 'old' unit kept blowing the fuse to our unit and EVERYONE else's.

 

So, there was me drunk as skunk wobbling outside to fix the fuse every ten minutes. As the crowd started to gather I was feeling a bit guilty for ruining everyone's Chrimbo. The temperature in the unit must have been well over 100 degrees by this time.

 

After a couple of hours most of the village was in our unit having a great time. We were determined to have a 'proper' Christmas. One young fella, Dave, was even good enough to sit by the fuse box and when we yelled he would replace the fuse, as long as we kept supplying him with the occasional drink he was as happy as the proverbial Larry.

 

Suffice to say, eventually the food was served at around nine at night, after which we all disappeared down to Broome jetty to have a fish. It was hilarious, we made many good friends that day, ones that I still keep in contact with today.

 

Cheers Tony.:wink:

[TheOptimist]

Well I am just getting over the flu, so haven't had a drop to drink in over 2 weeks (that's actually astonishing for me. Oops). But normally I participate in drinking beverages of an alcoholic nature this time of year and somehow manage not to get into any kind of sticky predicament. Amazing but true. There are plenty of years to come hopefully so that I can fall foul.

 

The funniest one I can remember was about 15 years ago, my dad had a bit too much brandy after Chrissie dinner, and as he was bringing in the Christmas pud, complete with Holly sprig and set alight, he tripped over the chair, sent the xmas pud flying across the room, and drenched us all in soggy brandy and cake. :biglaugh:. We thought it was hilarious, but my mum wasn't too pleased. Poor dad, she still brings it up now.