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| foto | Posted – 12/26/2007 12:54:01 AM | show profile Okay, so what was the worst present you received this Christmas? The one you just can't believe someone would give you. The one you can't wait to regift or maybe you're too embarrased to regift it. The one thats already in the backseat of the car to go back to the mall. |
| nika | Posted – 12/26/2007 3:35:25 AM | show profile I got pretty good gifts this year, but I did get some awful cologne from my aunt. Funny, she had showed it to me in the store a couple of days ago (of course, I didn't know that she had already bought it for me), and I went on and on about how I would never wear that brand! Guess it was to late for her to return it and get me something else. |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 12/26/2007 11:53:45 AM | show profile A fake security camera. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 12/26/2007 1:29:30 PM | show profile i asked for a bag to take to interviews and such. I got a silver plastic metallic clutch from the Nike outlet. Complete with "swoooosh" and all. |
| cori | Posted – 12/26/2007 2:31:41 PM | show profile 'Twas the Season Ah, my detestable sis-in-law, wife of my equally detestable brother, sent my husband and me one bag of Wolferman's English muffins. Number one I hate English muffins of any type. Number two, how cheap can you be? One bag with postage? Maybe, $12. That means the stingy twosome spent $6 bucks on each of us. And, I know you should not keep score as to who spent what on whom, but my husband and I sent them a nice wall clock for their living room and two CDs by artists they like. Next year, maybe they'll get a bag of Wolfermans! Keep in mind, they are not broke. Just CHEAP. |
| recovering_jersey_girl | Posted – 12/26/2007 3:28:35 PM | show profile My well-meaning but decoratorially challenged aunt sent me a box to decorate my home office, she said. Mind you, my office is decorated in a funky, deco-industrial style. In the box? Two three-foot high elves, a boy and a girl, with cabbage patch-doll faces, yarn hair, red and green outfits, striped socks and pointed elf-shoes. *sigh* I'm too embarrassed to regift them. I'm just going to donate them to another aunt (on my husband's side - no chance of getting found out!) who's decor style is more "country cozy." |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 12/26/2007 3:58:31 PM | show profile The worst xmas present was what that guy in San Francisco got: Death. By an escaped tiger. |
| BurbGrrl | Posted – 12/26/2007 7:19:36 PM | show profile the perils of ordering from "The Lighter Side" My dad is so clueless about presents and does all his shopping by catalog, and usually personalizable. This year he gifted me with (among other, decent presents) a ceramic bowl (with a cotton bag) for keeping bread warm inscribed with "BurbGrrl's Hot Buns" (putting my real name in place of BurbGrrl). Then later on in the gift-unwrapping orgy, there was a sister dish, "BurbGrrl's Kickasserole." Kind of risque for a straitlaced parent, I think. And I don't even cook -- I'm the baker in the family! Needless to say, these are getting chucked. |
| nandy | Posted – 12/26/2007 7:32:23 PM | show profile Since I really only exchange with my daughter (and Dad gives me a check), things were so low keyed that all my gifts were OK. But I'm afraid daughter wasn't as happy with some of the things I gave her. Except for the pricey cell phone I gave her to replace the one that died three days after the warranty expired, she got a few pretty articles of clothing that weren't from the clothier of her choice. I could see the disappointment that she tried to cover up. |
| Letterbox | Posted – 12/26/2007 7:56:01 PM | show profile I have some well-meaning friends who gave me a giant coffee table art book. They know I'm an artist so thought it would be nice to get me an art book. Unfortunately, it's one of those really simplistic survey of art history books that's mostly pictures. |
| foto | Posted – 12/26/2007 9:12:34 PM | show profile A set of dominoes. Hmmm. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 12/26/2007 9:37:15 PM | show profile Bleak that is so sad... the guy getting eaten bit. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 12/26/2007 10:52:54 PM | show profile You know, not for nothing, but i avoid zoos altogether for that reason. You go to a place that keeps wild animals in cages for food chain candidates to gawk at all day. Not smart. My kid sings a song that goes : "Five little monkeys sittin in a tree Teasing Mr. Alligator, 'Can't catch me!' Along comes Mr. Alligator quite as can be and he SNAPS! THAT! MONKEY! RIGHT! OUT Of THAT TREE!" |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 12/26/2007 11:13:49 PM | show profile Yeah...that's what that dumb-dumb gets for patronizing a place that holds wild animals in captivity. At least he didn't get a fake security camera...'cause that's what I got. |
| ferdinand | Posted – 12/26/2007 11:20:36 PM | show profile you're askin' for an askin' what the hell is a fake security camera? |
| foto | Posted – 12/26/2007 11:33:16 PM | show profile sad that they had to shoot the tiger just because he ate a few people. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 12/26/2007 11:41:23 PM | show profile When my youngest was about 8, his older bro took him to a wild cat sanctuary. They were creeped out because the tiger fixated on the kid and started "stalking" him around the place. He wouldn't take his eyes off what looked like lunch to him. That and an incident that left a keeper dead at the Dallas zoo (and feeling sorry for the captives) have chilled me on zoos, even though I greatly enjoy seeing the animals. |
| foto | Posted – 12/27/2007 7:11:01 AM | show profile I suppose it wouldn't have been so bad if the anteater had escaped. |
