tHE cHRISTMAS bOX

[Shallowhal]

When we were cleaning out the attic of our old house in Finglas many moons ago myself and my bro came across his old Scalextrix that he got as a kid.....we took it down cleaned it up....still had the old model F1 cars but they were beyond repair so we went in to the model car and train shop that used to be on Batchelors Walk and bought a new transformer and cars,think he still has it...i still have my remote control truck that i bought with my confo money in McBirneys on Aston Qy...loved the toy shop on the top floor of that shop.

[Rat Catcher]

Scalextric.

[Octavia1]

Scalectric Occi ..Here is one I prepared earlier .......Driving a taxi I picked up an old woman  two years  ago it was  two days after Christmas she must of been about 90  years old the  skin on her hands was so frail you could nearly see through it .She was out Christmas shopping in the sales for next year looking for bargains . She had bought 5 rolls of Christmas paper in the sales ,she asked me "How much do you think I paid for that ?"I played along and said 2 euro a roll .She told me it was 2.50 a roll before Christmas but she got it for presents and it was only 20cent a roll .Usually I would try to be a smart arse and say somebody is going to be delighted getting a roll of Christmas paper as a Christmas present but because of her age and because she was lovely I decided not to .
  "Young man do you like Christmas ?I hate it I replied never liked it ."Young man Christmas in a beautiful time of year why do you not like it" ?I just dont I replied .When we got to her destination she paid me but then said she wouldn't get out of the car until I told her the reason I didn't like Christmas .I told her I had no reason I just did not like it .Well she pressed there must be a reason try to think .
 Then I just found myself telling her .When I was about 6 or 7 our big treat at Christmas was to be brought in to Grafton Street to see the Switzers Window Display .Then you would line up from the front door on Grafton Street round the corner into Wicklow Street and sometimes even around the next corner waiting for your turn to go and see Santy .Now Switzers were brilliant at marketing as you entered the shop the que snaked past the perfume counter just in case it was your Da that brought you he might pick up a bottle of cent for the mammy ,then the que moved through the gents department in case it was the mother who brought you she might buy a hankie or a shirt or tie for himself .
 Then with absolutely no regard for health and safety excited children qued all the way down the stairs climbing up on the handrails trying to get a good luck at all the toys in the toy department .Jumping excitedly off of the last step onto the shop floor of the  Children's Toy Department .You had to snake your way up one isle and down the next  walking past all the toys you saw advertised on the telly they were all here in real life the excitement made us breathless.
 Then I told her one year just as I got to the last Isle and could see Santy in his Grotto I spotted Scalectrix on the shelf a big box with a blue and a red car going around a black track  ."LOOK " ma Santy has Scalectrix" .I had asked Santy for Scalectrix in my santy letter  after I saw the add on the telly .I use to watch the telly with a pencil and a bit of paper and every time the add for Scalectrix came on I would write down some of the letters off the package so I spelled the name right so  Santy wouldnt be confused and bring the wrong thing .I squeezed my mothers hand with excitement look look look I chanted in a high pitched squeaky kids voice clenching my teeth with excitement.I remember my mother very matter of factually saying  ."Oh thats for the other boys and girls he has no more left your getting  actionman   "I remember the Christmas spirit evaporating I just didnt understant why the other kids were getting Scalectrix and I wasent .I was a good boy I kept my bedroom tidy washed my face and neck and went to bed when I was told I even stopped fighting with my sister ,I just didnt understand .
 Now I have Children of my own and for Christmas Santy brought   them a book or something small and If I could  afford it they got  what they asked for and if times were tight the girls would understand but still get to believe in Santy and the magic of Christmas .So the old lady took my hand and said "Your a good man .

Theres 5 boxes left scalextrix in coolock .....its the big one aswell not the 2 inch cars .....
I dont like Christmas myself....always shit happens ...this week 10 yers ago split up from the ex ....remember the snow ?  Jesus I think it was 11 yers ago .....
Anyway no chopper .....no scalextrix.......no switzers window
Very posh ....

[Octavia1]

Scalextric.

Yu must of got one aswell if yu kno how to spell it ....posh boy

[john m]

Scalextric.

Yu must of got one aswell if yu kno how to spell it ....posh boy

I have a huge Set bought it in Musgraves Christmas Eve about 20 years ago reduced from £160 to £20 .Think it was somebodies stroke saw the youngfella changing the pricetag so grabbed it .I had a plastic racetrack and Matchbox or Dinky cars Was playing with Big Dommos little brother told him the cars were electric .He was pushing the car around the track when I got him to lick the two terminals off a PP9 battery got a shock in his tongue I convinced him the cars were electric .

[Bob Shillin]

Never lose yer inner child.

[Shallowhal]

Never lose yer inner child.

On here Bob.....we're all Peter Pan!!

[silverbullet]

Scalectric Occi ..Here is one I prepared earlier .......Driving a taxi I picked up an old woman  two years  ago it was  two days after Christmas she must of been about 90  years old the  skin on her hands was so frail you could nearly see through it .She was out Christmas shopping in the sales for next year looking for bargains . She had bought 5 rolls of Christmas paper in the sales ,she asked me "How much do you think I paid for that ?"I played along and said 2 euro a roll .She told me it was 2.50 a roll before Christmas but she got it for presents and it was only 20cent a roll .Usually I would try to be a smart arse and say somebody is going to be delighted getting a roll of Christmas paper as a Christmas present but because of her age and because she was lovely I decided not to .
  "Young man do you like Christmas ?I hate it I replied never liked it ."Young man Christmas in a beautiful time of year why do you not like it" ?I just dont I replied .When we got to her destination she paid me but then said she wouldn't get out of the car until I told her the reason I didn't like Christmas .I told her I had no reason I just did not like it .Well she pressed there must be a reason try to think .
 Then I just found myself telling her .When I was about 6 or 7 our big treat at Christmas was to be brought in to Grafton Street to see the Switzers Window Display .Then you would line up from the front door on Grafton Street round the corner into Wicklow Street and sometimes even around the next corner waiting for your turn to go and see Santy .Now Switzers were brilliant at marketing as you entered the shop the que snaked past the perfume counter just in case it was your Da that brought you he might pick up a bottle of cent for the mammy ,then the que moved through the gents department in case it was the mother who brought you she might buy a hankie or a shirt or tie for himself .
 Then with absolutely no regard for health and safety excited children qued all the way down the stairs climbing up on the handrails trying to get a good luck at all the toys in the toy department .Jumping excitedly off of the last step onto the shop floor of the  Children's Toy Department .You had to snake your way up one isle and down the next  walking past all the toys you saw advertised on the telly they were all here in real life the excitement made us breathless.
 Then I told her one year just as I got to the last Isle and could see Santy in his Grotto I spotted Scalectrix on the shelf a big box with a blue and a red car going around a black track  ."LOOK " ma Santy has Scalectrix" .I had asked Santy for Scalectrix in my santy letter  after I saw the add on the telly .I use to watch the telly with a pencil and a bit of paper and every time the add for Scalectrix came on I would write down some of the letters off the package so I spelled the name right so  Santy wouldnt be confused and bring the wrong thing .I squeezed my mothers hand with excitement look look look I chanted in a high pitched squeaky kids voice clenching my teeth with excitement.I remember my mother very matter of factually saying  ."Oh thats for the other boys and girls he has no more left your getting  actionman   "I remember the Christmas spirit evaporating I just didnt understant why the other kids were getting Scalectrix and I wasent .I was a good boy I kept my bedroom tidy washed my face and neck and went to bed when I was told I even stopped fighting with my sister ,I just didnt understand .
 Now I have Children of my own and for Christmas Santy brought   them a book or something small and If I could  afford it they got  what they asked for and if times were tight the girls would understand but still get to believe in Santy and the magic of Christmas .So the old lady took my hand and said "Your a good man .

I worked in Switzers  for seven years.  Billy Bob Thornton must've modelled bad Santa  on ours, an awful fucking pissheadbut there again you'd have to be wouldn't you?

Every lunch break at the bar in the International Hotel on Wicklow Street.

Or if he wanted, The Old Stand on the corner of Andrew St.

[Bob Shillin]

Had family Xmas dinner in Wynn's hotel aeons ago, Santa was locked, mighta been the same one.

[silverbullet]

Had family Xmas dinner in Wynn's hotel aeons ago, Santa was locked, mighta been the same one.

I loved bad Santa, have bad Santa 2 recorded.