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Since we all know nothing goes completely according to plan when family gets together, I asked readers to give me their funniest holiday story for a contest I called the Burnt Turkeys and Sour Egg Nog Contest. The winner receives a $25 Target gift card for participating and sharing their funny story with us. Thanks to those who entered and Happy Holidays!

The winner is...VICKI PETERS!!!

And here's Vicki's story:

*Thought I won the big one!*

"We typically spend Christmas Day with our good friends Bob and Letty Best. They are kind enough to invite our family as well as several others to join them. Letty sets a beautiful table with a gorgeous holiday centerpiece, her finest China and stemware, place cards, and a favor for each of her guests. One year she put a lottery ticket by everyone's name and as we were seated, she told us to scratch it off to see if there were any big winners! Sure enough, I had three matching numbers! I didn't share this with anyone, but very excitedly, began to scratch off the place to reveal how much money my prize was! $10,000!!!!! Vanity had prevented me from wearing my glasses, but I was almost certain that is what it said. I started screaming! "I won! I won! I won $10,000!" I was sitting next to a nun and I even promised to give $1,000 to her order! Letty just let me go on and on for what seemed to be an infinity...until she finally told me to turn over the lottery ticket...at which time I found out that it was a "fake" ticket that she had purchased at Wooden Nickel in Tampa. Ha! Ha! Very funny! By the way, we still are friends and we still go to her house on Christmas Day."