The holidays are a time full of activity, from gifts, to cooking and decoration. Even the simple task of bringing in a tree can be full of accidents and pitfalls, so it shouldn’t be surprising that some folks just end up getting pretty unlucky just in time for Christmas.
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I live in Atlanta, Georgia and I got fired on December 20th. My only chance to pay rent this month was to drive 700 miles and start a new contracting job the week of Christmas.I don’t have any family or many friends anyways but I was looking forward to spending time with the few souls I do have in my life. I miss them but I am stuck eating ravioli on a concrete floor, in a warehouse, for Christmas.
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The cover was bent and the record was chipped.At least Amazon replaced it the next day, in the proper record mailer, inside an another box with packing bubbles. It’s like there’s no middle ground with them.
American actor, comedian, and filmmakerMel Brooksonce said that “Tragedy is when I cut my finger.Comedyis when you fall into an open sewer and die,” in reference to the very real fact that, ultimately, it’s all about perspective. After all, thefailshere range from mild annoyances to holiday ruining.However, it can be a good lesson on perspective, after all, you can thank your own lucky stars that these things didn’t happen to you. It’s easy to forget that everything going “right” isn’t the default, so it can be nice to take a moment and appreciate what you have. Christmas is, in many ways, a great time of year for that.
American actor, comedian, and filmmakerMel Brooksonce said that “Tragedy is when I cut my finger.Comedyis when you fall into an open sewer and die,” in reference to the very real fact that, ultimately, it’s all about perspective. After all, thefailshere range from mild annoyances to holiday ruining.
However, it can be a good lesson on perspective, after all, you can thank your own lucky stars that these things didn’t happen to you. It’s easy to forget that everything going “right” isn’t the default, so it can be nice to take a moment and appreciate what you have. Christmas is, in many ways, a great time of year for that.
Hopefully, any particularly majorfailends up feeling like funny memories in the future, a great moment to go “do you remember when…” next Christmas. Who doesn’t like a sympathetic story for the holidays? It can be terrible at the moment, but ultimately cherished memories are often born of bad luck.
Luckily, our Dad came home earlier than us and this happened when he was at the house so he went and cut the power, unplugged stuff, etc.
Someone pray for me or send me good wishes, when it rains it pours.
Ended up at a holiday themed pop up bar, alone. Ended up paying $8 for a $2 beer. Stared at my feet the floor and the walls for what felt like an eternity watching other couples and families interact and engage in the festivities. I want to crawl into a deep hole and disappear. I’m so embarrassed.
Christmas gift from my parents got delivered today. Wasn’t supposed to be used or refurbished. Smells AWFUL. They’re letting us return it but I have to take it to UPS.
I found out we had canceled the yearly Christmas party / bonus. A multi store owner within a large corporate chain food company allowed our management to instead do this for the staff of say 60 employees per store. Upon completing this project along with a few other miscellaneous gifts (donuts, Doritos, and [get this] oranges,) he told us this gesture was “breaking the bank.” Love it here.
Not even a bun or a measly potato. I’ve missed a lot of family dinners in the past and usually they send me ham, turkey and plenty of sides. So it seems I was an afterthought this year. I know I should be grateful I got something but it still feels pretty bad.
I spent a few years of my childhood at this mobile home park and it was pretty rough. Now that I’m older and am more connected to the community I was able to get a bunch of stuff donated and held a little giveback event this weekend. One of the things I was most stoked about was this giant 10ft Christmas tree someone chopped down for us. I got it cleared with the park manager and I put a bunch of cinder blocks on the stand thinking that’d prevent it from being messed with. Came back the next morning to add a few more ornaments and it was gone :(I’m pretty sad but trying to prove to this community that we can’t be knocked down! Trying to brainstorm something else to bring back like some cinder blocks and shape them into a small igloo like tree and paint some rocks to look like ornaments but I’m worried that might not be as cute as I’m imaging.. The other idea is another tree and something else extremely heavy..? we can’t really install anything permanent and working with a limited budget/not really wanting to ask people to donate after all they’ve done already. Let me know your ideas!
I work as a bartender at a high scale banquete hall and we have a 700 person event for a rather large insurence company. Not only did someone think it was funny to tip me a chocolate coin, but ive only made $60 in tips ontop of that tonight :/. I only make min wage.
Thinking of giving her coal now as a Xmas present for this “joke”.
We dug through the trash and found our receipt. We brought the quest to Walmart and the store manager came out and said there was nothing he could do. He would not even replace it with another unit. We told him we don’t want money we just want what we paid for but he just kept telling us to call corporate.We called corporate and they said they can’t override a manager’s decision. I posted on X(FKAT) and meta support reached out and urged us to open a support ticket. So we’re waiting on their response now
I don’t think that huge black blob on the right is supposed to be there.
Drove a third of the way across US and ended up in the hospital the next day.
My car is 20 yrs old. I cant afford to buy a new one, and I cant afford to fix it. I let it sit bc it had a (minor but smoky) oil leak and a headlight out. This doesnt include the cost to fix the A/C, the headlight (have to buy a complete new headlight, not just the bulb) and new tires. Pretty sure the only option to sell it is to a junk car buyer and then I would just be out of a car at this point. I can only “afford” to fix part of it as i will max out both of my CCs. Honestly not even sure what choice is best at this point. The car only has 133k miles and runs great when operational. They are quoting me 3,600$ to fix it and thej i will have to pay another few hundred for tires/headlight just to get it operational.
Completely gray and rancid. Now Xmas Eve dinner for 6 is frozen stuffed shells. $190 in filets are in the trash.
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Swerved to avoid something in the road, nailed the curb instead. Going to be about $600 to get it all fixed. Dammit. On the bright side, I’m OK and rest of the vehicle is OK. My wallet is not.
Went Christmas shopping in my partner’s hometown and this slipped through the cracks I guess. Thinking of just cutting it out and getting a tailor to sew it back together?
Received this puzzle as a Christmas gift. The puzzle was pretty bad quality and that made it really hard to do, but it was a fun concept and promised you could win some cash prizes, including a million dollars! It was in a sealed package, but we found out after that it came from a bookstore that sells used books and games, and they shrink-wrapped it. When we finished it and scanned the code, it had already been redeemed. Worked on it all day and joked we would end up with the lowest prize of $1, but we didn’t even get that, ha.
The little handle still makes a clicking noise and snaps back but there is no longer any resistance when pulling it and it no longer spins.
We’ve been having torrential rains here in the Northeast since the early morning. I was on my way home with my 4-year-old son, and we were no more than 30 seconds from our house when our minivan died. There was a DPW truck in the road that gave me a false sense of security that the road wasn’t too flooded. Now we’re down a car and $300 in tow fines, and don’t yet know how much it’ll cost to get the car repaired. Merry Christmas!
I didn’t realize it was in my lap, so when I stood up, it hit the floor. I didn’t even have a chance to hang it on my tree.
My wife stayed up until midnight last night setting up her nativity scene. She really loves Christmas and I feel horrible for her. Well I came home from work this morning and walk into this. This act of vandalism was committed in less than an hour. Luckily she took it well and is excited to set up another nativity scene.
I (27F) just bought and moved into my first apartment in July and have met everyone on my floor (they’re all at least a decade older than me). We say hello in the street as well.I opened my door today to see that the neighbor across the hall has left every single other apartment on my floor a cute Christmas ornament with a card with their name on it except mine.I don’t know them too well, but I have helped them with groceries and lent them eggs before. I get that it’s fair to not leave me anything, but it still didn’t feel great seeing everyone else’s.
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