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As the title enlightens you, share any of your memories here whether they are sad, happy, frightening and so forth.

Christmas 32rd to Christmas Eve, 200 miles A happy memory of mine.

Last year shortly before Christmas I was working away and my daughter April had been away for one reason or another. My wife was staying at her mother and father's house over Christmas as April and I weren't going to be home, or so she thought.

I arrived back in the UK and went to my hotel. I stayed over night and on the 23rd we had loads and loads of snowfall all in one night. The roads, buildings and cars were a thick white blanket of snow! I got a call from April and she said she wouldn't be able to get to her mum's because the bus's were no longer running because the roads were covered in snow. I told her to hang on where she was and to wait until further notice.
It had been six months since my wife and I had seen April and it had been at least two months since I had seen both of them. I rushed out to the storage garage where I had my car stored while I was away and got in. I knew there was snow everywhere but I had a good feeling that I could reach April and then we could both get back to her mother and give her the best Christmas present she could hope for.

I got in the car, started it up, the engine came to life straight away and off I went. The city wasn't too bad because snow had been shovelled and cleared but the country roads and lanes were deadly. I remember how at one point I was only doing about 12mph as I crept through a small village which was literally in feet of snow. At times I thought my car would let me down but I'd owned her for eight years and she'd always been reliable in wind, rain and snow and I knew if I took it steady and slowly I would be fine and I was.

The funny thing is I had a disc in the multi changer in the boot and it was a Christmas disc, strange though because the multi changer was broke and only played that one disc and would only play track seven which was Last Christmas by Wham. For the hundred plus miles it took to get to April I heard Last Christmas over and over and over again. But as I love that song and like repetition I didn't mind at all!

One hundred and forty miles late I reached April, it was almost dark by this time and had taken me nearly the whole day to reach her. Step one was complete, the next day on Christmas Eve we attempted step two.

It was a sixty mile journey to reach where my wife was and I knew snow would still be on the roads so on Christmas Eve April and I got up at 6am and we got on our way, with Last Christmas playing the whole way from start to finish, awesome The journey was slow going, most of it consisted of country roads and the snow was very deep in places. It was a good dad and daughter time for me and April as well, she told me about her work and her relationship with her boyfriend Dennis who is now her husband and she also said about how happy my wife would be to see us both. I knew she was right, this was the perfect Christmas present for my wife, if we could get there.

The first thirty miles went smoothly but the last thirty we encountered a problem! We entered another small village which we would be passing through but then I noticed there was no traffic on the other side of the road and then we rounded the next corner and there was a police sign saying that we had to turn around, beyond the sign I could see that the snow was very deep and my car wouldn't stand a chance, so automatic gearbox into reverse and we turned around. This added another twenty miles on the journey but that didn't stop us. It was nearly mid afternoon so as we got to less snow filled areas I increased the speed, the max we did the whole journey was 28mph. The car performed well and it never threatened to slide or lose control, though I wouldn't have wanted to push it anymore than what I had already. Snow is dangerous in cars. By 4pm we were 10 miles away, in deeper snow but not too deep. By 4:35pm we reached where my wife was and I'll tell you the smile on her face was worth every bit of time and hassle it took to reach her.

It was the perfect present for my whole family and now is one of my best memories ever

The saddest memories, of course, are the memories of people and pets who have passed away.

The happiest memories are of holidays, the days my special pets came into my life and achievements in my life.

My saddest memory is when my best friend Shawn passed away. He had muscular dystrophy and was sick for a very long time and he ended up dying of heart failure in the hospital.

My happiest memories are the holidays I spent with my mama and my brothers and sister like christmas, halloween, easter, 4th of july, and new years. But now that they are all grown up and have their own lives we don't do holidays anymore like we used to.

My most frightening memory is all those times I went crazy before I was disgnosed with Bipolar Disorder and put on medication. I actually walked 15 miles away from home trying to run away in the middle of the night and I went inside somebody else's house to rest and the people came home and were so angry that they threaten to shoot me but they called the cops on me instead. I've ran away from home like that a few times but that was the worst time because I could have gotten into serious trouble or even killed.

My saddest memories are the passings of my two cats, Chubs and Sammy. Chubs had kidney failure while Sammy had heart problems his whole life.

My happiest memory is my marriage to my husband.

My most frightening memory is my mom having a stroke earlier this year. There were times that she may not make it; luckily my brother knew early on and took her to get help. My mom had since made a full recovery.

Scary memories mainly involve driving in this town-the driving is getting crazier! (However, I wouldn't trade my life now for anything. I just have to be more careful).