Shoddy PresentsI have an aunt who for many years would send me the same christmas present every year. A Biro. Each year I wrote inevitable "Thankyou so much for the Biro. I am using it to write this letter" letter, each year a new one arrived.
Tell us all about the rubbish that has been foisted upon you over the years.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Sep 2004, 10:14)
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Let me thinkI once received a small bar of guest soap nicked from a hotel, wrapped up in endless boxes and taped so well it took me a good half hour to get at it. It was, of course, a joke.
My dad's side of the family is great. There are so many of us we introduced a "pound present" scheme a few years back. Essentially, you're not allowed to spend more than a pound on anyone's present. Pressies have included extendable plastic dusters, hula hoops (not the crisps, unfortunately), shockingly awful calendars, laminated pictures of scantily clad ladies for the lads (actually, that was probably quite good), a plastic glowing Jesus to stick on a car dashboard... last christmas I brought my boyfriend with me and he got a couple of spare presents (people often lose count of how many they've bought). Needless to say he was very impressed with the bath salts and nail varnish.
We always get very, very pissed though, which I believe is the whole point (Irish catholics... what can I say?)
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useful_idiot, Thu 23 Sep 2004, 17:51,
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