Your Christmas Emergency (non serious)

[fossyant]

This is light hearted, so not a tale of woe with power cuts and flooding (hope no-one here is affected).

Two actually.

1. Phone call 8:45am Boxing Day. We didn't answer it as we knew it would be the MIL or FIL at that time.

Missus phoned back later. The emergency was, "where is my shaver". It was apparently on the dining room table Christmas Day morning. Considering when we arrived, the table had already been cleared, we were expected to know where it was ?

2. Urgent call today from FIL. "We are in a bit of a mess", Me "oh heck what's wrong". Wait for it.......

"Can't get the DVD player to work. Your son must have broken something when he asked to connect the laptop up on Christmas Day". I said it won't be, but I would be round. PS son is 13 and is handy at PCs.

Went round, and it's like spaghetti car crash for wires. Immediately apparent that the HDMI from the DVD player was knackered, fell off the connector at the DVD. Obvious to me how it got broken, as the TV unit is full of crap, and when my FIL fitted his latest gadget, the WIFI dongle for catch up on the Sky, he's obviously shoved it back in, breaking the wire.

Pulled out about 10 redundant cables that were just tangled up, and plugged in another HDMI that was just there not connected to anything. All up an running. Made a sharp exit before I would up with more jobs.

He is perfectly capable of fixing these things as his background is electronics, TV and Audio, but just because we had looked for a connector, it was our fault !

Argh. Anyone else get silly emergencies like these !

 

[Octet]

My mum burnt.... the parsnips!

She was running around the kitchen in a panic, once the parsnips have gone you know the entire meal is going to be a disaster. Obviously it wasn't but you know how stressful the kitchen gets at Christmas.

 

[Fnaar]

My daughter had an epileptic fit at 3am in the bathroom on Christmas Eve, and I had to kick the door in to help her out

(she has them frequently, we're used to it)

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

My daughter had an epileptic fit at 3am in the bathroom on Christmas Eve, and I had to kick the door in to help her out

(she has them frequently, we're used to it)

Aaaww poor love, can't be an enjoyable experience for her.
Does she bounce back OK once the episode has finished?

 

[biggs682]

My daughter had an epileptic fit at 3am in the bathroom on Christmas Eve, and I had to kick the door in to help her out

(she has them frequently, we're used to it)

@Fnaar i was going to like your post but didnt think that was the right thing to do , hope all ok

 

[colly]

The oven packed up. Turkey was done but the spuds had a way to go.
It cut back in again after I gave it a stern talking to.

Probably a thermal cut out of some kind so I think a new oven is called for. Mind you we've had it for years and years so it owes us nothing.

Edit: Oh and my son's partners mum was burgled at around 1.30am on Boxing Day, that's Christmas night.
There really are some shitey people about.

 

[Monsieur]

My in-laws came

 

[smokeysmoo]

Miss Smoo started vomiting at about 11pm on Christmas Eve

She wasn't ill with it, (if that makes sense), but she didn't get back to sleep until about 2.30 in the morning, and she was extremely worried that Father Christmas wouldn't come if she couldn't get back to sleep.

She did, he came, and all was well

 

[Saluki]

Got a phone call on Hubster's mobile phone at 6:02am on Christmas morning from FIL's phone number. Fearing some sort of catastrophe and in a bit of a panic, he called right back only to get a hearty 'Merry Christmas" down the phone. Hubs was a lot more polite than I would have been!
Its been a long while since I have been up at 6am on Christmas morning.

 

[jayonabike]

I couldn't find the bottle opener then rememberd I have one on my leatherman multi tool

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Pretty trivial as it goes but...

Number one son needing to get to work in central London on Boxing Day (& today). The nearest railway station with services to London is 100 yds from our door. On Boxing Day, and again today, courtesy of planned major engineering works and the effects of the weather the nearest functioning railway station was/is 20 miles away to the east. Number one son doesn't drive. Dad's taxi, which is never deployed in social settings, to the rescue, as it is work related, but the 07:00 am start and the 22:00 pickup are a sobering experience.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

mrs alecetc accidentally letting all the tatties, stuffing, carrots, parsnips and pigs-in-blankets fall onto the kitchen floor

we ate it anyway as it still looked (and turned out to be) very tasty

our youngest was also suffering from chicken pox, but at her age we consider it a blessing of sorts to get it now (she's 3)…

 

[ufkacbln]

Ours was a MAJOR emergency!

Mil, SiL and wife sat down with post dinner glass of wine to watch "Call the Midwife"

Switched on telly and the screen looks like this:

Disaster, and my offer to let them watch it on the Macbook did not go down well.

 

[Bollo]

Ours was a MAJOR emergency!

Mil, SiL and wife sat down with post dinner glass of wine to watch "Call the Midwife"

Switched on telly and the screen looks like this:

Disaster, and my offer to let them watch it on the Macbook did not go down well.

That's because television hasn't been invented in Gosport yet.

You're welcome.

 

[stephec]

Ours was a MAJOR emergency!

Mil, SiL and wife sat down with post dinner glass of wine to watch "Call the Midwife"

Switched on telly and the screen looks like this:

Disaster, and my offer to let them watch it on the Macbook did not go down well.

Ungrateful gits