gifts that prove how little people know you

[jpinkston57]

cdr said:

Oh crap. Well, that's what I get for trusting Limewire for an artists name..........

No sweat, man. Believe you me, I've been wrong about tons of stuff.

BACK ON TOPIC: My grandmother (who my bro and I very rarely see) is notorious between me, my bro and my cousins for her annual Christmas presents to all of us: a $5 check made out to "Cash". It's like, 1) you're not only a cheapskate but 2) you don't even care enough to write down my friggen name?

[Dr. T is an alien]

My father in law is the King of just-not-right gifts. The only Christmas gifts from him that really worked for me was the years that he was too busy to shop, so he handed my wife and I brand new $100 bills. Normally he gets me clothes that might fit him, but I am at least 6 inches taller than him and outweigh him by at least 40 lbs.

My wife gets it worse. She hasn't lost all of the weight that she gained popping out my 3 kids, and her dad so massively overcompensates for that that it is very sad. The shirts that he buys her would fit someone more than 100 lbs heavier than me, let alone her. To make it worse, he tears off all tags so that neither one of us can exchange them. Every year we wind up taking most of his gifts to Goodwill.

[Long A, Short A]

My older cousin Tywan is the worst gift giver in my family. For one reason or another, she claims to know people in our family like the back of her hand, but you wouldn't know it by the gifts she gives. 80% of her gifts come from the dollar tree. 80% of her gifts are bought less than a week before the gift worthy event. Worst of all she puts more effort into explaining why she got you the bad gift than she did when she was at the dollar tree.

In the last three years she's given me an itchy sweater, earrings I'm allergic to, an uncomfortable purse, and a crappy bracelet.

[Cucumber Jones:The Walkin Dude]

My brother bought me a three free rounds at the local driving range.

I never have played, nor expressed any interest in playing golf.

You figure it out.

[hil]

I haven't drunk alcohol for 4 years and I still get alcohol as presents - I now have 30 bottles of spirits gathering dust.

[nisi]

hil said:

I haven't drunk alcohol for 4 years and I still get alcohol as presents - I now have 30 bottles of spirits gathering dust.

These are great things to re-gift, BTW!

[hil]

nisi said:

hil said:

I haven't drunk alcohol for 4 years and I still get alcohol as presents - I now have 30 bottles of spirits gathering dust.

These are great things to re-gift, BTW!

Unfortunately it's normally the same unusual stuff that very few people I know like - I can't get rid of the damned stuff fast enough.

[4real]

Socks

Look when i need socks i will let somebody know. Until then STOP BUYING ME SOCKS.

And the fact that just because i support Arsenal, people think they can buy any old crap with the logo on and i will like it. If i wanted Arsenal slippers or wallets or alarm clocks i would ask. They look like crap.

[Psy]

My mom loves Invader Zim. So of course my sister has gotten me 2 shirts, a stuffed Gir, a bed spread, and a pillow case of Invader Zim.

Clothes with the logos of college and/or professional sports teams.

Curtains with NFL team logos on them.

Bibles.

[grapejellydoesit]

I've gotten so many gifts like the ones listed above that it inspired me to write a book. The guy I had been dating for more than two years bought me something I would never or have never used. You'd think that since we sleep together, he'd know what I was like. A guy who had just started at work a couple weeks prior, got me something I wanted sooo much that I kissed him on the cheek. Now think about what my now exboyfriend would have gotten if he'd have gotten my gift right.

[jdm24]

We had a going away party before I moved last year, and my aunt gave me a copy of "The Purpose Driven Life". She knows damn well that I'm not a Christian but she insists on shoving this crap down everyone's throat anyway. I thumbed through this book for a minute, and after what I read, I really pity those stupid enough to believe any of the crap written in that book. Hell, the main theme is, "It doesn't matter what you do with your life, because you live for God and not yourself".

[Psy]

*anticipates thread lockage*

[Matt Rogers]

Somebody once got me a book, even though they know DAMN well that I can't, and have never been able to, read.