Funny Christmas stories

**William Treseder** · 21-12-17, 19:40

Always laugh at a story my old man told me from his youth.
He grew up in Ely with 3 older sisters and to say my Nan and grandad were poor in those days would be an understatement. He told me when he was 7, all he got for Christmas was a Mars bar, and a red balloon.
He said he ate the Mars bar straight away, and then blew up his balloon. He was playing with it on the stairs, when one of his sisters came up with the old mans dinner on a tray.
The balloon landed on the fork, burst, Christmas over by 1pm. Lol!

**bobh** · 21-12-17, 20:12

My dad grew up in Cwm, a mining town near Ebbw Vale.
Couldn't rub two halfpennies together. - he used to clamber over the slag-heaps looking for bits of coal, both for the home and to flog any surplus.
One year, the family bought a young goose to fatten up for a Christmas treat.
All the kids would tease it, saying how good it would be to have a good meal for once.
When the time came, his dad couldn't kill it, nor any other family member.
So a neighbour did the deed.
It was plucked, cooked and served - and no-one touched it!