Not sure if this counts as revenge exactly but the recent post about the singing dogs made think to share my Christmas petty revenge story. This one goes back a few years to one evening when I (M, then about 50) was doing the pre Christmas grocery shopping with my kids. As we went through the supermarket we passed the aisle where the Christmas decorations were sold, and my children found a hat. It was a bright red Santa hat with a battery operated mechanism such that if you pressed a button on the rim the top of the hat would wiggle back and forth, lights would flash, and it would play Jingle Bells. My children thought it was wonderful and put it in the shopping cart. I said "No, no, that hat is an abomination!" and put it back on the shelf.
Fast forward to Christmas morning. By family tradition we select one person each year to be Santa; that person puts on a Santa hat and selects the gifts from under the tree one by one and hands them out so we can all share in in the fun.
This year I was picked to be Santa and my children insisted on selecting the first gift, which was from them to me. When I opened the box inside was the abomination hat. They insisted I wear it while the gifts were being given out.
That is how the abomination hat became an essential part of our family Christmas celebrations, from a little petty revenge on the part of my children on their uncultured father. I was actually very disappointed some years later when one of the cats peed on the hat and it finally broke down.
My story is that I have problems with spatial relationships. We went to pick out our tree and found the perfect one. It looked perfect for our living room, straight trunk, full branches and not dry, so it should last a couple of weeks with some care. We get it home and realize it's 11 feet tall and we had 8 foot high ceilings. Our living room was 12 by 15, a good size room for our neighborhood. It was so full that it took up a quarter of the living room. We had to trim about 3 feet off the bottom so it could stand upright. This happened when the kids were little and they still talk about the tree that ate the living room, about 25 years ago.
Wholesome story! Love to hear it 😁
Love it and the kids will have this as one of their Christmas memories.
It sounds hilarious.
Many years ago when my own children were small, my father shipped an animatronic mouse from the East coast to us out in California. I still have it. Dads dead. My husband is dead. The mouse, in his night cap, green and white stripped night gown, with a candle in his hand, soldiers on! He's been packed away for several years, since I retired, so now I get to see how the cats handle him!
The other thing we had was an animatronic reindeer which would move and play a carol - Jingle Bells, I think. Problem was, it was in a sitting position with its hind legs folded under it, like how a dog sits up. When it moved it moved its front legs only and scraped its backside across the floor, exactly like a dog does when it has worms.
Wormy Christmas deer…. Snicker!
Ah, the Satan hat. I believe the typo happened in marketing.
https://www.amazon.com/Gfilay-Swinging-Electric-Christmas-Interactive/dp/B0D44ZNQZ1/ref=sr_1_8
This is how happy childhood memories are imprinted.
That is a perfect petty story for Christmas!
Hahaha! Love it...the Abomination Hat! Everyone should have something like this.
The singing dogs story is great. I commented with the ugly crocheted curtains post.
I would love to hear more of these stories, when something unplanned, harmless, and enjoyable generated a lot of tradition and memories.
And you should definitely get a replacement Abomination Hat!
I really should. I look every now and then but haven't spotted anything, but in these days of online ordering it should be hard to find one.
I actually looked. There are several styles online. If you do Amazon then you can have it by Christmas.
You know I just might do that. Thanks.
I heard that in my father's voice. It's exactly the sort of thing he'd say about such a hat.
I remember this hat. I liked it lol
The cats had your back.
Believe it or not, I have that same hat. One of my staff got it for me some years back; it resides on a phrenology head in my office. As a matter of fact, I pulled it down and wore for two holiday parties this month!