You're so excited because it's Nochebuena and you are ready to celebrate, but sometimes things go wrong. All you can do is take a deep breath and laugh about it. Click through to see some of the worst things that can happen on Nochebuena and remember to just laugh it off if any of them happen to you.
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Your kid accidentally gets drunk on rompope
Oopsy, he thought it was eggnog and took a sip too many. Give him lots of water ASAP.
You’re making everyone mad
Your suegra is mad you’re not coming to her house to celebrate, your mother is mad you aren’t going to her house and your family is mad that you are making them clean because you want to host.
You regift a regalo to the person who gave it to you
You saved all the presents from last year that you didn’t like to give away this year, but you forgot who gave you what and la regaste big time.
You did not make enough tamales
Everyone knows you have to multiply the number of expected guests by at least 100 so that you will always have more than enough, but you thought that was excessive and now everyone is in tamal withdrawal.
All you get from your suegra are indirectas
You bought your suegra a gift, but all you get from her are comments like, "Oh the house looks nice even though you didn’t have time to clean it." Sigh.
You don’t have gifts for all the extra kids
Extra kids always show up and you don’t even know who they belong to, but still they should get gifts and you forgot to make a run to the dollar store to pick up extra gifts por si acaso.
You forgot to put out a nacimeinto
You're not really religious and your family doesn’t even go to church, but your abuela is going to have a heart attack if you don’t have a nativity scene somewhere because everyone knows Jesus is the reason for the season.
You suggest waiting to open presents until 25th
No, seriously WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! Presents are to be opened at midnight or shortly thereafter on the 24th. Have you lost your Latin mind?
You decide to serve an all vegan dinner
It’s official, you will be excommunicated and disowned and I hate to say it, but you totally deserve it.
You forgot about the games
Everyone is busting out coins for lotería, dominó or some baraja, and you have no games to offer. Did you forget these are Latinos you are hosting? You better bust out the guitarra right quick.
