My Dad is a scrooge and
will always be the tightest person I have ever met. He was a lot worse when we were kids because money was tighter then, however a little in-heritence (my mums side);p has chilled him out over the years.

You know you normally get to an age, i can only speak for men here, where what you get for Christmas isn't an issue because if you really want/neeed something you just buy it right?

Anyways one Christmas my dad opened a present from family friends. The shocked look resemled someone that had been handed a large piece of shit!

"They took my present" was the first auidble sense we got out of him.

Obviously we were all a bit confused at this stage and asked him what he meant. It turns out that every year my "MUM" buys this families kids presents as well as the parents and this year they had decided to give a different sort of pressie to all our family. It happened to be a well that produced water for X amount of people in an African village. Great idea!! so you would of thought. My dad insisted that it had ruined his christmas ( yes he did realy mean this) and he hoped the kids in Africa were happy with themsleves. It was a laugh or cry moment.....we all laughed a lot and still gets mentioned every Christmas. Weirldy enough they don't see the family in question anymore, i think there dead to my dad now HAHA!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 16:57, 2 replies)

I'm with your dad on that one. what a shite prezzy.
(goldfish23, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 8:09, closed)

Scrooge
Fairplay,

I admit it was a shite present and the year before they brought me a casserole dish that smashed to smitherines on it's first run hehe
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 10:40, closed)