Carol singers

[Caoineadhcuchulainn515]

Do you still get carol singers?. I mean the ones that come to your home and not the organised ones. I have not heard carols sung outside my home for years , or has PC out an end even to this tradition. By the way , I always gave them a euro or two if they sang reasonably in tune .

 

[Bahco]

They never knock my door as they know how poor I am!

 

[wotan]

We have had a few recently, they tend to giggle more than sing.

Wotan

 

[Whitespirit66]

Give them Mince pies, not Euros. Mince pies may still have a value in the new year.

 

[Diane2]

We have had a few recently, they tend to giggle more than sing.

Wotan

is that coz you answer the door in just your festive boxer shorts and spinning bow tie?

 

[Space cat]

It's been many years since bunches of tone deaf kids came knocking on doors in our street on the run-up to Christmas; so long in fact that I don't even think about it. (There was a time when any unexpected ring of the doorbell within a fortnight of Christmas day was likely to go unanswered.)

My most memorable carol singing episode is from the late seventies in a block of student flats and I heard it happen on the floor below:

Knock knock. Sound of door opening --

"Away in a manger, no --"

"Hold it, hold it! let's all get in tune shall we!"

There were disgruntled mutterings followed by two lines of the carol then a brief silence.

"Is that all?"

This produced even more mutterings and a whole verse, after which there was another short silence. Then a thoroughly cheesed off little voice shouted,

"Is that all?"

"Yes that's all now clear off you cheeky s*d."

It was the best laugh I'd had all day.

 

[sooey]

If you happen to have one of those stone slabs sticking out of the wall above your front door, you could balance a bucket of water (or a lump of lead ) on it with a chord attached dangling down by the door, with a sign saying pull for attention. Hide the bucket behind one of those plastic snowmen....happy days. Ho Ho Ho

 

[wotan]

If you happen to have one of those stone slabs sticking out of the wall above your front door, you could balance a bucket of water (or a lump of lead ) on it with a chord attached dangling down by the door, with a sign saying pull for attention. Hide the bucket behind one of those plastic snowmen....happy days. Ho Ho Ho

Do that and you are likely to find said lump of lead or a brick through your window.

 

[pred]

I had a carol singer loitering at the front door last week, the dogs alerted me to his presence, on opening the door i'm confronted by a teenager, and i kid you not, he's got some sort of speach impedement, which was far worse than my spelling and i'm thinking this is a wind up but no he stammers he's collecting on behalf of St Peters hospice to which i reply "i only give to animal charities" so he jumps on his scooter that was at the side of the porch and "scoots off" down the road towards Southmead, a large council estate that has its fair share of undesireables, i'm surprised he hasn't come back collecting for the RSPCA!

Why did he target my house, was it because i had a few xmas lights outside.

 

[Alarm]

I had a Carol once..............she was a right goer.................