CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
With Christmas Day now less than a week away, excitement is high right across the country.
Offices and worksites are closing down for the year, and families are starting to load up the cars and begin road trips.
It’s a special time of the year for big and small families, as the cousins from out of town arrive and the presents are unwrapped. Eskies are filled with ice, and a whole range of fowl, livestock and vegetables are thrown into the oven – before being covered with gravy.
But with the festivities comes the occasional embarrassment. The rowdy combination of high emotions, booze, sugar and overall hysteria can result in a few hiccups here and there.
With the Paul Kelly song ‘How To Make Gravy’ being adapted into a popular Christmas movie, Australians are more aware than ever that sometimes their loved ones can make mistakes.
And for whatever reason, Christmas is a great time for making mistakes.
Australians of all classes and creeds can relate to the melancholic themes of this famous Aussie Christmas story, even if nobody in their family has had to spend a Christmas behind bars.
For the Lucas Family of Betoota Heights, this scenario wasn’t actually that far off a couple years back. And it’s taken until now for everyone to finally laugh at the fact that the deadshit cousin Mitchy ended up in the watch house on Christmas eve after going mad on the rums at the local pub and doing a nudie fun through the front bar with his penis in hand before throwing pool balls at the bouncers that were trying to restrain his naked 19-year-old body in front of the entire town and every family friend he’s ever known.
Mitchy was released the next day, and got off with a warning in court several months later. It hasn’t really been spoken about much since. Until today.
The family Christmas group chat is today popping off after one of the older cousins finally decided to make a joke about this fateful night, three years later.
With 9 laughter reactions, it’s official. The family shame has worn off. Mitchy is now fair game, and it’s going to be a long Christmas for him.
“Mitchy. You gonna be up early to take Nan to church??” asks another cousin, Sal.
“Or will you be staying in that old serviced apartment downtown?”
Uncle Boof pipes up too.
“Cheapest motel in town ha ha.”
“Did you get your shoe laces back?” asks Mitchy’s old man, Pete.
“Go easy” says Pop.
“I’m talking to you Mitch. Go easy on the rums hahahah”
