Ever just get one of those gifts?

Anyone here ever gotten a truely terrible gift? The kind a well meaning relation usually gets you? My mother, recently returning from San Francisco, bought my sister a beautiful little choker. She bought me a sweater. This is bad for multiple reasons: first off, she only ever buys me sweaters. She must think, "Oh, I need a gift for Snowmane*, so I'll buy her a sweater!" Great. Secondly, this is an ugly sweater. And she expects me to treasure it. I forsee that I will be forced to wear it to make her happy...°

So... anyone else have a gift-nightmare story that they'd care to share?







*Mwah! Like I'd tell you my name.... I don't want any more DU type stalkers. :wink:

°Don't think that I loathe my mom... I don't. I love her very much, but she can be somewhat wrong about my tastes in clothes.

 

You have a sister? Is she hot?

Anyway back to business, my extended family has an annoying habit of of getting together during the holidays and having the "children" sit, one at a time, in a big circle of well meaning but often times demeaning relatives, while they open all their presents. Keep in mind that the term child applies to you until your 18th birthday. The worst and most embarrassing gift I received during one of these special occasions was a 3 pack of white brief underware fom my Grandmother, I was seventeen at the time.

 

My brother once gave me a magic kit I gave him a couple years before.

 

What a cheap-shot!

Hmm... Once my sister-in-law bought me a fooseball table. That's just fine, except the table is about 2-3' off the ground and is meant for 5 and 6 year olds. It was just last year, too! :x

 

Hey nbroz, now is the time to use your imagination. What i would do is tog et some napalm and drop it on the board while pretending that it is the manchester united and arseanal that is playing. Try using it for something fun.

 

i liked Zorgues story
i mean how cheap can you be!
...i would throw him(the brother) out form the window.

Hmm lets see if i have as story *scratches his head*...
well my dad went to the US a few times and when he got back he handed me a bag full of super-amazing stuff, but i guess it's not so bad :grin:

oh wait i remeber one!
on some christmess when i was like 9 years old my sis got me a kinda of a thinking game thingy. i mean a thing that you have to sit and solve.
i was so pissed off at her because i was waiting for some power rangers action figure or some lego thingy to build.
i still have no idea how to solve it :-?

 

My brother is a year and a half older than me, and I was about eight at the time.

 

well i would kick him in the nuts instead

 

Then run real fast in the opposite direction. :grin:

 

that's what my cousin used to do!
he used to hit me and then run away to my aunt.
cause he knew that i cant beat him up next to her. :-x
but i always got him somewhere else

 

Not so much the gift here as the way it was given....

Some years ago, as I was wrapping up a visit with some friends in Poland, one of these "friends" gave me a big box of those wonderful Polish chocolate-covered marshmallow treatsies, right at the airport. Of course he KNEW I couldn't take them with me to the US without getting the Dept. of Agriculture on my butt, and he KNEW I couldn't eat them during the flight due to my motion sickness, so he KNEW I would just have to give him the box right back to enjoy all on his own. Bastard! He knows how much I love those little chocolate-covered marshmallow treatsies!

And now I can't even remember what they're called, blast it all.

 

your friend is evil. i mean giving someone a gift only because of counting on getting it back. pure evil... :evil:

i would throw him out of the closest window.
or he's stronger then i would kick him in the nuts and then run to some security officer.

 

Maybe I should do that with my brother

 

yeah maybe he'll learn a lesson.
dont forget to tell him what is it for (the kick in the nuts)

 

Though of course he might deny it, he denied the fact that he stole $20 from me, when he was the only one who could have done it

 

dude no offense but from all that you've told us....your brother is an asshole. :???:

 

He has his moments, though he can act nice sometimes. He's also a bit manipulative so I don't know if he wants something or if he's just being nice.

 

I can't imagine why the Department of Agriculture would give two shits about a box of chocolate, I mean it's not an animal or plant that could have some potential disease or disrupt the enviroment. Example: introducing a bug with no natural predators, which in turn leads to wholesale crop destruction. I mean it's just a box of fuckin' chocolates.

Anyway, I would have opened the box right in front of him and taken a bite out each one, or at least licked them.

 

They freak out about every sort of edible item imaginable unless you've got a license to import or something along those lines. You're not even allowed to take the baggie of peanuts the stewardess gave you on the plane but you wanted to save for later.... Learned that one the hard way, let me tell you.

Of course you could always take the chance that a food-sniffing Beagle won't be waiting for you at the terminal, but I'm just so damn law-abiding I make myself sick. :???:

 

you could allways steal some chocolates from duty free when you land, it's easy, run into the shop, grab the box, shout "FREE STASH" and run out again....that's how my friends used to steal from the warhammer shop, hmm, altho there aren't any armed guards in warhammer shops.......and the cashier prolly won't be sitting down painting a model in an airport.....hmm...now that i think of it my plan is flawed DAMN YOU SKELETOR!!