Today, my psychotic grandma set fire to our Christmas tree because she refuses to let us celebrate what she calls a twisted pagan holiday. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my family and I were decorating the Christmas tree. It seemed a bit unstable, but we decorated it without any problems. Later, while my daughter sat by the tree, it began to fall. Her grandmother stopped the tree from hitting her. I, on the other hand, screamed like a little girl. I'm a 38 year-old guy. FML
Today, I was overseeing a nativity play rehearsal. Things went fairly well, until a boy's grandma stormed in, ranting that Christmas is a "Pagan abomination", and shouting for him and his mom to leave with her. Half the kids were left in tears, and we had to cancel the rehearsal. FML
Today, my grandma came over for the holidays. She tried explaining how Santa is actually Christ reincarnated, giving presents to all the good little Christian boys and girls. She'll be staying all week. FML
Today, it's that time of year again: my mom has threatened to disown me if I celebrate Christmas in any way, shape, or form. Yes, she is an extreme bible thumper. No, she doesn't see what is wrong with her behavior, nor does she care. FML
Today, my family was celebrating my grandma's 90th birthday. I pulled a little prank and got candles that keep relighting. After a few blows, my grandma fainted. FML
Today, I woke up to find our Christmas tree knocked over, unwrapped presents scattered everywhere, and my mom passed out on the sofa with a bottle of booze. Merry Christmas. FML
Today, my mom got drunk and decided to unwrap all my Christmas gifts and throw them at the wall. Ho, ho, ho. FML
Today, my perfectly healthy grandmother came to stay for Christmas. First, she persuaded my family to give her my bedroom. That would have been fine, until she demanded she should also have a bucket to piss in under my bed too. FML
Today, my psycho grandma yelled at me for being an "immature brat" by not offering to wash the dishes after dinner. I reminded her that when I offered last time, she raged at me for being "condescending." She responded by faking a heart attack and getting me indefinitely grounded. FML
Today, I woke up to my overly religious grandmother trying to shove salt down my throat yelling "DEMON BE GONE!". Why? I didn't wear the cross neckless she bought me. FML
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airforce987 20
To be perfectly honest, the Christmas tree is actually adopted from Germanic pagan traditions and there is no proof that Jesus was born on December 25th. She has a valid point.
thatkid00117 16
What's a family holiday without unstable family members?
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exo_went_insane 12
Turns out, psychotic grandma was right. Christmas IS a twisted pagan holiday. The bible explicitly forbids the use and decoration of christmas trees: Jeremiah 10:1-5.
rec_chem 22
She's absolutely right. Jesus wasn't even born in the winter.
tbenson0628 14
Actually, she is right on most counts, except the setting it on fire. "Christmas" started as yule tide and somehow turned from that to jesus's birth to presents and people getting trampled on black friday. i agree with your grandma.
mintypoison 22
Well she is right... xD Christmas' date was changed to the end of the year over Yule time for Pagans to get them to convert. Shouldn't stop anyone from celebrating it though. Crazy grandma is crazy, sorry to hear that OP. :c
howdoilogin 9
I....I can't blame her. I actually have to technically agree with her, except on the housefire part.
sugarbear0727 19
Christmas was originally a pagan holiday. The Christians didn't want people celebrating paganism, so they deemed it a Christian holiday. Same with Easter. Christians don't have any of their own holidays, they stole them from other religions and fit it to their views. Why else is Easter about rabbits and eggs? It was a fertility celebration. Rabbits are very prolific creatures, and eggs are a simply of life
SparklingAngel 2
She's actually right, however her execution was a tad off lol
Zehla 7
Well she's technically right except it isn't twisted and more a celebration of new beginnings etc. The church hijacked the holiday quite some time ago but it was not originally a christian thing. Look up Winter Solstice.
acetheone 8
you deserve it you santa-loving-pagan, not the fire though, that's bad.
rhcpgurl 18
I know people will thumbs me down. But I'd call the police and have grandma arrested. Yes it may sound harsh but besides the fact that grandma needs a hard lesson that its your house and you can celebrate what you want, it was extremely dangerous to set a tree on fire indoors. Myself and my family could have been killed if the flames went out of control and that I won't accept.