Merry Christmas!

[Harv]

Cut and pasted from Sky Geek .com

John

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the airport

Not a creature was moving,even rats in the food court.

The flights had all left bound for faraway places

No TSA staff looking for explosive traces.

Fed Ex logistics screwed up big time that day

And gifts bound for Boston wound up in L.A.

Grandparents were angry in Boca Raton

No playthings for grand kids, all made in Taiwan.

Roads were all grid locked, black ice to blame

No gifts this way either, all Next Day shipping in vain.

And as kids sat at home all happy and free

'Twas a barren landscape under that tree

Mad at The Man for not being able to deliver

And tired of Mom's nagging at the health of his liver

Dad set off livid towards K-Mart at midnight

Forgetting his jacket, throwing caution at frostbite.

Since the roads were all clogged and traffic wasn't moving

Dad, in his infinite wisdom was using

An old snowmobile with a gunked and clogged carb

It would have behooved him to wear the right garb.

Across town at Midnight, The ride there was cold

But it was on the ride home that the weather took its toll.

Delirious and frozen halfway to the core

Dad stumbled in muttering about the crap in the store.

Xboxes were gone, no secret levels to pass

Mom quelled Dad's bitching "A recession My Ass!"

With Mom running interference and Dad at full throttle

He charged up the Dewalt and uncorked a bottle.

Picture a montage of swearing and breaking

With none at the store it was toys he was making.

With hammers a flyin' and staple gun firing,

A safety-code nightmare, complete with shoddy wiring.

He worked through the night, the gifts were completed

despite the curve ball Dad wasn't defeated.

Birdhouses made with "extra" floor joists and

Homemade ice skates made with sharp, rusty points.

Slippers from carpet, hats made from paper

A light-saber sword from a tattered ice-scraper.

By the Good Grace of God, Dad made it all right

Happy Christmas to All and to All a Good Night.

[JackF]

John, I hope you are home for the holiday! Must be pretty exciting around your house. Merry Christmas

[02Les]

Nice one John.

I managed to get home for Christmas & New Year. No curries for two weeks!

Merry Christmas.