There's always going to be someone who shows up to holiday celebrations uninvited and makes things weird, whether it's the cheapskate uncle who never brings anything or a significant other from a month-long relationship.
Sometimes, it's a 400-pound bear.
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Caroline Tidwell of Estero, Florida told NBC2 that she woke early in the morning of April 3 to find a bear hanging out in her living room a full two days before Easter Sunday.
What kind of monster does that? This isn't Christmas, bear. We're not making a week of it. If you insist on coming, drop by in the afternoon and be sure to bring something for the kids this time. You're not welcome at the church anymore because of how you behaved last time.
The family's cats found safety on top of kitchen cabinets, but the Easter candy was not so lucky, and the bear got his greedy paws in the chocolate stash. They were able to kick it out, but the party crasher couldn't take a hint and showed up again the next day. After being shooed away with pots and pans, the bear cut its losses and stayed away, missing Easter altogether.
"This is the first time this has happened," Tidwell's neighbor, Dennis Anderson, told NBC2. "We've heard about it before, but frankly my wife was more afraid of alligators."
Sorry, bear, you're scary, but you're not quite alligator scary.