The Worst Holiday Gift You've Ever Received

[methanolcereal]

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.

[waltkellysghost]

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?

[Sarah]

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 . . .

[ben]

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.

[kittykittymeowmixhead]

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.

[gravy boat]

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?