The best Christmas gift ever

Not the actually Geo

It's time for my first participation in a Humor Bloggers' carnival. It's a group of people that have funny blogs. Today they are having a "Carnival" for humor bloggers to write about the best or worst Christmas gift the blogger has received.

The first and immediate answer that comes to my mind about what the "Best Christmas Gift Ever" is the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Without him, this whole season wouldn't exist and life would be pointless.

Now, I know they are looking for something a little more humorous from me over there though. I honestly can't say that I have ever received a horrible Christmas gift, and I already shared with you my best gift. Instead of sharing a gift, I'm going to have to share my funniest Christmas story.

It happened about 18 years ago. My parents owned a little red Geo Metro with matching red hubcaps. My dad really likes model trains and there was a model train display at a local gentleman's home that went all through the guys house. It was an awesome display. Anyway, we reluctantly went to pick up my Grandmother (you could make a sitcom about her) and go look at the trains display.

When we got to Grandma's house we all had to load up in the Geo. There were 4 of us children, my Grandma, and my mom and dad. My two older siblings got to sit on the back seat with Grandma while my younger sister and I sat in the hatchback (This was before seatbelt laws, and look I'm still alive!). As we started to drive to the display my dad hit a bump and one of the matching red hubcaps popped off of the car. There was a little too much weight in there. I immediately shouted, "Dad, a hub cap just fell off the car." My dad was so proud of those hub caps, but in a funny kind of way.

After my dad stopped the car and put the hubcap back on my Grandma started telling us this story about some trip she went on years ago with my Grandpa. It went kind of like this:

One time me and Grandpa went on a trip to the grand canyon. As we
were driving down the highway I noticed a hub cap on the side of the road.
I told Grandpa that we had lost a hub cap, but he just didn't believe me.
So he kept on driving. That night we slept at a hotel. Oh, it was
just the dirtiest hotel. We didn't even brush our teeth the sheets were so
dirty. (My Grandma is OCD about cleanness. What
brushing your teeth and sheets being dirty has to do with each other, I still am
trying to figure out.)

The next morning when we came out of the hotel, grandpa
noticed that we were missing a hub cap. I told him so. So I made him drive
back to where I saw the hub cap off the side of the road. He climbed down the side of the road while I directed traffic around the car. (I'm so sure she was really helping by, "directing traffic.")

About this time my dad runs a red light and my mom says under her breath to him in the middle of my grandma's story, "It was red."

Immediately my grandma got all defensive and started shouting, "No, no, it was alum-ma-numb." Totally pronounced wrong, she was really saying aluminum.

We all busted up laughing because she honestly thought my mom was saying that the hub cap from her car was red. She just kind of sat there and finally asked, "What's so funny?"