I posted this before, then last night I couldn't get on to this site and now can't find the original post. Server problems, Simon?
If this did make it to the board the first time, just bear with me and join in ok? Now I've added more detail.
Anyways I'd like others to post stories of Christmas pranks, joke gifts, stuff like that.
I'll start it off with my Christmas tradition.
Every Christmas, I like to play some kind of prank on my adopted nephew Josh. It started pretty simple the first year I started to really celebrate Christmas. That year, I had just started to get close to my adopted family, The Baileys. I liked their kids a lot and decided to get them something. That year I didn't even gift wrap, just put it in a plain brown bag. When I walked in on Christmas morning, they all ran up and gave me a hug. Then it started. I said "kids, Santa called me on the cell phone on my way over here and was very mad at me because I hadn't gotten you a Christmas gift." At their ages then, they took it serious. Their eyes got HUGE! "Santa told me to go to the store and get you some socks and underwear". Their faces fell. I'm not making this up. I saw disappointment. They sadly took the bag I handed them. It was a VHS of Superman-The Motion Picture. That did it. "Uncle Mike" got a joke over on them. In a little while we were watching Superman together, with the kids cheering "YAY SUPERMAN!" and a few tears when Lois Lane died. As a side note, the middle child Summer who was six at the time fell in love. I am honored to be her first crush. I pity the first teen boy she goes on a date with, because her parents and I have agreed that I will be the one to answer the door when he comes a-calling.
Fast forward.
2 years ago Josh was 9 and dying for a Playstation. I had one and told his folks he was getting it. At the time I worked in a muffler shop so I grabbed a box for a Flowmaster Muffler and packed the Playstation in it and giftwrapped it. I wrapped up a big stack of games separately. That was the first Christmas I have ever "played Santa". We got the kids to sleep and got to work putting the presents under the tree. Josh busted us so we had to let him on the Santa thing. He pretty much already knew, but we made it an official rite of passage. He and I also started our own Christmas tradition. Every Christmas eve, Josh and I drink a scotch-and-water together. (only one for him of course)
Where was I?
Oh yeah...
The next morning, he tears the paper off the Flowmaster box and gives this look of utter "what the hell?" dismay and tosses the box off to the side. Next in line was the Playstation games and then he figured it out.
Big laugh.
So the next year, I took a Flowmaster Muffler box with the muffler still in it and gift-wrapped it as-is. Christmas morning he tears the paper off and starts to laugh. "You're not gonna get me with that one again, Mike!"
The look on his face when he sees the muffler inside was priceless. I got him after all! Of course, his real present was a radio-controlled airplane that we went and tried to fly together but that's another story.
So this year, I had to escalate it. The box joke is played out.
One gift is a radio-controlled motorcycle. I even bought one for myself, those things are so cool! I keep it at work and play with it in the parking lot when work is slow.
His other gift is a Harry Potter Playstation game. The game's cd case went into a cavity cut into the middle of a "Barney Goes to the Farm" book and the book was gift-wrapped in a Powerpuff Girls giftwrap. (I happen to think the Powerpuff Girls are pretty cool, but I'm not an 11-year old boy with a rep to uphold like Josh)
That went into a giftwrapped box, when went into another gift-wrapped box, ad infinitum. All said and done, and it took until tonight to finish the packaging, he's got a hell of a lot of boxes to open to get to Harry Potter.
Seven boxes. Each carefully gift-wrapped. Christmas morning, he's gonna get a box about 4 feet tall and 3 feet by 3 feet wide. Wrapped in 3 rolls of PINK BARBIE GIFT-WRAP. Inside that are 2 boxes. One is gift-wrapped and totally empty. The other contains the other 5 boxes he has to open to finally get to the Harry Potter game inside the Barney book.
I can barely get the box in my car!
I didn't do any jokes on the other members of the family, though last year I did wrap and entire roll of packing tape around the gift I got for Josh's dad. Took him 20 minutes to open it.
Josh and Summer (my baby!) each got a radio-controlled motorcycle. Tho, I bet the grown-ups will be playing with those as much as the kids.
The worst thing is that next year I have to come up with a joke to top this year's. And I have a sneaky suspicion that a joke gift is awaiting me Tuesday at their house.
Ok, that's my long story. I would really love to hear yours. Even though I've been out of the Empire since 92, Christmas is still very new to me. This year, I've had a hard time getting into the spirit. If it hadn't been for Josh's joke gift, I may very well have been a total Scrooge.
So share with me and the rest of the board now...
mike
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