The Christmas Etiquette Test

 

This is a little break from The Random Driven Life in favor of a Christmas Etiquette Test that I wrote years ago when I was a youth minister for the kids at Rice Temple Baptist Church in Houston, Texas.

1. Your cousins give you underwear for the 4th year in a row. You should say:
 a.) Just how many people know my underwear size?
 b.) I'm sure they will go well with everything I wear.
 c.) Is this a hint or what?
 d.) What a kind and thoughtful gift.

2. Your grandfather says, "Back in the Depression we were given fresh fruit as a Christmas gift and we were grateful." You should say:
 a.) Then I guess you want complain about the banana I gave you.
 b.) Tell me Grandpa, do you wrap grapes by the bunch or individually?
 c.) If you want fruit, you can have the Fruit of the Looms my cousins gave me.
 d.) What a kind and thoughtful gift.

3. Your Great Aunt makes you some Christmas Fig Fudge Ripple Cookies. She insists that you try them while she is there. You should say:
 a.) Has there been a FDA ruling on these cookies?
 b.) You know this and that underwear my cousins gave me is what Christmas is all about.
 c.) Looks like I'll be putting that new underwear to the test.
 d.) What a kind and thoughtful gift.

4. Your Great Aunt says, "My you have grown." You should say:
 a.) No, I believe you've shrunk.
 b.) That's because I've avoided eating those cookies you give me.
 c.) I sure have! It's a good thing my cousins gave me some new underwear.
 d.) What a kind and thoughtful thing to say.

5. You are unwrapping Christmas gifts and your Grandmother says, "Save the paper." You should say:
 a.) Think of the naked presents in Ethiopia.
 b.) Save the paper, save the whales, it's so hard to keep your priorities straight.
 c.) You know, I think this is the same paper my underwear was wrapped in last year.
 d.) What a kind and thoughtful thing to do.

Thanks for reading my blog. I hope you and your family have a kind and thoughtful Christmas!