Yule Be Sorry!
Reader's Digest US|December 2022 - January 2023
A husband’s fib about a beloved holiday k melody backfires spectacularly
D.H. Irving
Yule Be Sorry!

MY WIFE LOVES Christmas songs, and she loooves to sing them. Sixteen years ago, while we were driving on vacation, she decided to pass the time by singing “The Christmas Song." You know, "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire ..." She didn't sing it once. She didn't sing it twice. She sang it over and over again.

So, I decided to mess with her.

When she got to the line "Jack Frost nipping at your nose," I blanched.

"Why are you singing that song?" I said, in my most mortified voice.

When she looked confused, I feigned surprise that she was unaware of her faux pas.

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