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If you've ever been in a family where Christmas has been canceled,

and it's got to be the situation where it's all lined up.

You guys have done it every single year, you know, it's very traditional.

But for whatever reason, mom and dad decide we're not having Christmas this year.

A, I want to know what was the straw that broke the camel's back. And B, how the whole thing works. Like, who tells the family? My assumption is it's like a knee-jerk decision by dad. Or mom. Or mom. I think mom. I see mom would do it before dad would. Like, and that's a decision I think you've got to come together as parents. You're not allowed to just declare that for the entire family. I don't think dad would think of that on his own.

Like, I think you've got to come together as parents you're not allowed to just declare that for the entire family I don't think dad would think of that on his own like I think I just don't think a dad who's strict enough yeah yeah well he could come down man that's I mean he might do the old go pick your switch thing but I think to get to get creative and cancel Christmas that's a that's a that's a mom move and you know who's going to be really fun to talk to? I don't think it's going to be a mom move. The fun people are to be talked to are going to be the siblings. Like you're like, what's the straw that broke the camel's back? If Melissa and I are brother and sister and she did something, and I'm still angry. Your Christmas got canceled. 30 years old, I'm still mad. Yeah. I'm assuming it's going to be a cumulative thing, and we're not getting a lot of calls on it. But I'm assuming that it's the parents taking a look at the whole house. Like they're taking a look at all three girls or both boys and girls. And there's no appreciation for what the season's all about rather than finding a cigarette burn on the couch and then one parents just saying, no Christmas this year, and then calling up Santa.

I think it could also be the siblings fighting with each other because when I was growing up,

that was the thing that ticked off my parents the most was my brother and I getting into fights.

So if it was like one after the other after the other, I could have seen them because it was us fighting with each other, canceling it for both of us. So that meant and literally canceling it means the 25th you wake up, there is nothing. No Christmas. Oh, man. No gifts. No decorations. No fancy breakfast or leaving cookies and milk for Santa. No stocking. No nothing. Just another day.

Bummer. Hey, Alison, good morning. You're on Q100. Good morning.

Hi.

About two years ago, I was, you know, I work Christmas Eve and I go home all excited and I get home.

My mom's sitting there crying on the couch.

I'm just like, what happened?

She's like, yeah, your dad's in jail, so we're not doing anything.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Why do you get sent to jail?

For fighting with my brother.

Oh, for what?

Fighting with her brother.

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