Christmas with loved ones can provide a heartwarming and joyful time, but for some people reunited with their parents over the holidays, normal services cannot resume quickly enough.
People on both sides of the Atlantic have adopted this Xformerly Twitter, to express the exact same sentiment after spending the holidays at home with their parents.
Adults have complained about their parents' “smothering” behavior, while others have grown impatient with their family's “loud snoring” and other antics.
Meanwhile, the situation has become so dire for some that they have vowed never to return to their parents' homes over the Christmas period for as long as they live.
In Raleigh, North Carolina, someone said angrily, “I'm never working from my parents' house again. I can't go to sleep because my brother and father are so noisy. WiFi drops out so I have crazy input lag. It sucks.'
People around the world have used X, formerly known as Twitter, to reveal what happened when they spent Christmas at home with their parents (Stock Image)
Another felt smothered by their parents' presence during the holidays: “There's something that makes staying with my parents during the holidays much more suffocating than in previous years, but I'm not sure what it is.”
In London, a man expressed awe when he found an antique Tesco condiment in his parents' kitchen cupboard. He wrote: “Are you staying with family for Christmas and have time to kill?
“Take a look in the cupboards and see what's the oldest thing you can find there?” My parents are holding a Tesco Mixed Spice, which based on the packaging is older than me.'
One woman looked at the generation born between 1946 and 1964 and said, “There's nothing like staying with boomer parents during the holidays and watching them struggle with technology.”
Another added: 'Stay with parents over the holidays and read books? It doesn't get more boring than that'.
Others expressed their annoyance at their mom and dad's “loud” antics. In Canada, someone posted: 'Forced to share a room with my parents and they both snored SO loudly.'
“My parents are watching a movie so damn LOUD,” moaned another.
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One reveler said they had been driven mad: 'Staying with my parents over the holidays has driven me so crazy. I woke up at 2am last night and continued reading Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' while listening to Rachmaninoff's music at the same time. [Piano] Concert no. 2 on repeat. Someone set me free'.
In Atlanta, Georgia, a man took the time to chronicle his father's ticklish antics. He wrote: 'My parents are staying with us, and so far I've seen my dad on his iPad:
1) Facebook's “People You May Know” section highlights people he didn't know
2) Reading an article in US News and World Report about the Battle of the Bulge
3) Read the Wikipedia article on pepperoni.
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Someone else joked: 'My favorite sound to experience at Christmas while staying with my parents is the sound of a 16 year old cat with dementia walking around the halls and crying.'
Elsewhere, someone shared how they had fun on their phone at Christmas: 'I love it! I'm staying with my parents so I desperately put it on my phone at night because the telly is always on bloody football or Antiques Roadshow'
Meanwhile, someone fumed: 'The worst part about going to my dad and his wife's later Christmas and staying until tomorrow is having to put up with Strictly Come f***ing Dancing on the TV tonight.'