Omg yes! We would get hot chocolate and donuts too. Best Xmas memories ngl

I am now that parent 🤘

My favorite Christmas memory, ever (other than the year I got a Fonzy motorcycle), is the time we saw a life size Nativity scene. As my kinda devout Catholic mum slowed down so we could all get a good look, my younger sister piped up from the back of the station wagon with "please don't stare at the exhibit for too long. The mother WILL eat her young." I started laughing so hard, I almost wet myself. It only got worse when my mum started sputtering "CHRISTINA FRANCES!" over and over, which only encouraged my cackling fits. I had the mother of all headaches by the time we got home, but it was sooo worth it. I still can't see a Nativity display without the urge to start laughing.

I still do this

Yes we would also get like mint milkshakes

Yes! Yes! Yes!

A friend of mine got his mom to drive me around to do this for the first time when I was in my twenties visiting Canada, it was magical. We don’t/can’t really do that here.

Yes

Yes, and I still like to do this as an adult.

My dad still does that! This year he took my daughter (17) and her boyfriend - they loved it!

We have this one family in our city who goes all out rents a radio station to sync his light to (as to not disturb neighbors) plus if you go to watch their show they bring around homemade cookies. They're such a sweet older couple and somehow their light show gets better yearly, I love them!

We still do that every year

yes

I do this with my son. He's 11 and loves it. As do I.

My husband and I do this every year!

Lol we do this with our kids every year 😂 wait, you mean not everyone does this?!

What kind of soulless automaton DOESN'T do this?

My fam still does this. Every Thanksgiving eve, we would drive around. I'm living in a different state, so I have to miss out on those little trips. Miss em a lot!!

Yes

Yes! Good times.

One of mt kids got glasses this past December. Driving home from the glasses store with her new spectacles, she was constantly going "WOW looks at the lights!" No one realized she couldn't tell they were individual lights and not just bright blurs. Now she can appreciate Christmas in full detail!

I've been the passenger and the driver.

I grew up in a poor rural area, so my father would bundle us and the neighbor kids up, stick us in the back of his hay-lined pickup truck, and drive us into the posh neighborhoods. I can still see all the bright lights reflecting off our delighted faces.

We did this a lot this Christmas - kids loved it

We spent out xmases listening to my dad and mom argue..ahhhh...good old days

Yes and if their was music then we would listen but we don’t do it anymore cause people just use the same thing every year

We counted lit trees and colorful lights and it was such a great time spent together.

We used to drive by this one house that would always go all out on Christmas lights. I wonder how much it all cost.

Still happens here in Ireland, there are several houses which always have big displays, and generally they collect money for charity. The 9ne nearest me has raised €70,000 over the last 27 or so years, all going to the hospital that cared for a family member before their death.

My dad still tries this. Unfortunately, there was an 'incident' in my childhood at a light park in WVA (along with my parents, sister, grandfather, cousin, uncle, 2nd cousins, and great-uncle, an ill-advised car "caravan", multiple bathroom trips, and missed medication schedule) that has forever impacted my ability to do this as I am still traumatized over 30 years later...

Eeee no... Why would we...

The little things in life are often the best.

Yes every year before Christmas and now it’s a tradition with my kids

Great memories!

Yessss we do that every year at Christmas 😁

its had 800,000 plays now lol

Perhaps murderous walks?

Don't forget jumping off progressively taller things and getting a little concussed!

I’ll admit, I sigh laughed.

Peak dad exchange

I have done this

I love the idea someone just plans ahead like this to mess with a stranger. Now throw some meat in there so when they open it it stinks like crazy as well to add to the realism.

No. I am your father.

lol

plz no

not one found

That last bit 😂

I have grown to love the whistling rat (guinea pig) my daughter wanted then subsequently lost interest in and has now become my responsibility

Hahahaha what a kid. Xxx

🤣🤣🤣

Lol-that's hilarious