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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: kittykittymeowmixhead on November 12, 2009, 05:27:36 PM
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It's holiday time...have you ever received a gift that was laughably ridiculous or just sad?
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I once received tin of homemade cookies that I think were made with salt instead of sugar. :( :(
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Not so much the worst (someone got me a Bugs Bunny tie once - and I've only worn a suit like a dozen times in my whole life), but the worst opening experience for sure.
When I was around 10-ish, my church asked all the parents to send along gifts to a near 25th whatever it's called, churching, so the childrens group could open presents and be all Santa Jebus yay! My folks, not wanting to do the right thing, just grabbed some packages sent by my Grandmother from under the tree, small, feeling like clothes, and sent that along - the plan, I found out later, was to not have us open anything too good at church, and save that for Xmas morning. Cut to church, my little sister, about 6-7 at the time opens her present, mind you, in front of every kid I knew at the time. Yippy dippy, it's a package of My Little Pony underwear.
The fear set in. My package was the same size, weight, and from the same person. I knew, as I saw all the other kids in our group opening toys and games and coloring books, I was doomed. I stepped to the side of the room, and opened it secretly, just tearing the corner or so open to get a glance. GI Joe or Star Wars underwear. Oh man. That did something horrible to me. I had to lie and deflect when everyone asked me what I got. And when my parents picked us up later, and found out, they were deservedly embarrassed. My sister loved her gift, and maybe had I opened mine in the privacy of my own home, I might have liked mine too.
They made up for it by taking me to Toys R Us the next day and buying me a GI Joe figure, which was nice a couple days before Xmas. But that day taught me a pretty fun lesson about shame, and cheapness.
The end.
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My very first job out of high school (I'm talking the DAY after graduation), I started working at a hospital where several members of my family also worked.
For Christmas that year, I got a scotch tape dispenser/paperweight. The same kind as the one on my desk at the nursing station. It was a gift from my aunt who was also an administrator of the hospital, and whose husband happened to be a supply room worker.
Her rationale was: "you're in college. you need a paperweight and some tape."
Le sigh.
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We were having Christmas in Arizona and I was like 10. The biggest gift was from my Grandma and it had my name on it. I have a very small family (I'm her only grandchild) and I was pretty sure this was going to be the coolest gift in the whole wide world. I waited with anticipation and saved it for last.
It was an electric blanket.
I learned never to get too excited about gifts from her ever again.
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My mom got me a pocket fryer one year. It's basically this device that turns sandwiches into hot pocket type sandwiches. She got it for me and said "I got that for you because I know you like sandwiches." That's my mom. Always thinking of me.
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A CARTON OF CIGARETTES!
The old man grabbed me by the shirt and said, "Smoke up, Buffy!"
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I once got my own Prime Time Band, which I promptly regifted to Kevin Eubanks.
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A boyfriend in high school gave me a miniature lamp with a folksy snowman painted on it. Cute for my grandma, maybe. Not for my 16yr old self. And from my boyfriend, no less.
Of course, I told him how wonderful it was and how sweet he was to get it for me. Now, it is somewhere being sold by Goodwill.
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A CARTON OF CIGARETTES!
The old man grabbed me by the shirt and said, "Smoke up, Buffy!"
Deja Vu!
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When I was 16, my sister gave me a life-size ceramic of a skull wearing a Nazi helmet, the most inexplicable, and probably the worst gift I ever received.
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A CARTON OF CIGARETTES!
The old man grabbed me by the shirt and said, "Smoke up, Buffy!"
Deja Vu!
Maybe you two are long-lost relatives.
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I once received a broken Palm Pilot with a cracked screen. No charger. It wouldn't even turn on. My aunt said, "You like computers, right? Fix that screen and it's basically good as new."
It was the only thing she got me.
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I was in a relationship from age 18 to 25. It had a slow decline... basically I declared I was moving and he could decide whether or not he wanted to come with me... in retrospect we were going to break up anyway it was just easier for us to make it about something else. (i.e. location)
So, in the middle of the six month period we gave ourselves to figure things out, we went to his parents house for xmas. It was fine. Things had already been depressing for so long, this was no different. Until my ex decides to give me Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for xmas. Sure, it was one of my favorite movies, but was that appropriate? We were both going through the most devastatingly sad period of time in our lives, and it was all about whether or not we were meant to stay together.
Now that I write that out it doesn't sound that bad. But I'm pretty emotional about that movie. I wasn't able to watch it until 9 months later after we'd been broken up for a while.
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Wow, these are kinda sad. Scotch tape?? A broken palm pilot? Was the palm pilot even in a box? I got a banged up off-the-back-of-a-truck CD player one year, but I loved it.
I once received tin of homemade cookies that I think were made with salt instead of sugar. :( :(
Or maybe they used baking soda instead of baking powder, probably a common mistake among people who are clueless about baking...
The worst xmas gift I've gotten was from my ex's grandmother. She had bought homemade scarves from some lady at work. Mine was bright lime green, made from shredded polar fleece...Something like this, only hot green:
(http://www.makeandtakes.com/wp-content/uploads/Easy-Fringe-Fleece-Scarf1.jpg)
Must be karma from when I was 8 and I went to a birthday party of one of the girls in my class and gave her a pack of fruit snacks. My mom let me do this! I didn't wrap it or anything, in fact I brought it in my kid's sewing basket and told her that she couldn't have the basket, just the fruit snacks. Her face...priceless. I still feel embarrassed over that!
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Worst gift from significant other (I remember! I actually called up during Christmas Tragedies/Triumphs! Oh the memories!): Set of shot glasses when I was a senior in high school, and not much of a drinker (I got her a journal [she wrote], and some other personal type stuff. The juxtaposition between the gifts sort of summarizes the relationship pretty well...)
Worst gift from a family member: A couple times an aunt or uncle that I don't see often will get me a gift certificate that is very...out of character, to a store that has no appeal to my erm... fashion sensibilities.
Stupidest Unwrapping: Unwrapping an Xbox game before unwrapping the Xbox. Kind of killed the surprise...
Must be karma from when I was 8 and I went to a birthday party of one of the girls in my class and gave her a pack of fruit snacks. My mom let me do this! I didn't wrap it or anything, in fact I brought it in my kid's sewing basket and told her that she couldn't have the basket, just the fruit snacks. Her face...priceless. I still feel embarrassed over that!
That's one of the funniest things I've ever read.
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Worst gift from a family member: A couple times an aunt or uncle that I don't see often will get me a gift certificate that is very...out of character, to a store that has no appeal to my erm... fashion sensibilities.
It's always the worst when a family member buys you clothes. For the rest of my life my family will buy me clothes as though I still have the same fashion sense from when I was 10. Where are they finding neon orange jams with surfboards on them in the 21st century?
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My twenty-one-year-old beau gave me a bottle of Johnny Walker Black for my sixteenth birthday. I appreciated it at the time, but in retrospect . . .
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My twenty-one-year-old beau gave me a bottle of Johnny Walker Black for my sixteenth birthday. I appreciated it at the time, but in retrospect . . .
hee!
Mine was a puppy. I named her Marcie after the Peanuts character. Very nice gift at times, but for a 12 year old who also had a paper route it was a lot of work. Too much for me too handle. A paper route every morning is hard anywhere, in winter in Wisconsin walking around it was very tough. And then being in charge of some little needy puppy, a little terrier mix. And then once school started again, still doing the paper route, and taking care of the dog... parents made me give it away before Easter I think.
I still wonder what happened to that dog, and if she ended up happy. Whenever I see the Futurama episode Jurassic Bark I think of her. 20 years later, still worrying.
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Worst gift from significant other (I remember! I actually called up during Christmas Tragedies/Triumphs! Oh the memories!): Set of shot glasses when I was a senior in high school, and not much of a drinker (I got her a journal [she wrote], and some other personal type stuff. The juxtaposition between the gifts sort of summarizes the relationship pretty well...)
I remember that call :)
I also unwrapped a Sega Genesis game before the game system when I was like 10, and I'm so dumb I went "Dad, we don't even have a Sega" like he was so out of it he didn't know the difference between Super Nintendo & Sega. So it was still a surprise haha.
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My twenty-one-year-old beau gave me a bottle of Johnny Walker Black for my sixteenth birthday. I appreciated it at the time, but in retrospect . . .
In retrospect, . . . he should have had to make you something in the prison's workshop?