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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All true...My dad grew up as one of five kids in Ashton-in-Makerfield near Manc (think Brassed Off, people eating coal, whippets in flat caps, etc.) His family weren't very well off. He also had the misfortune to be born on Boxing Day.
One year when he was about nine, the starry-eyed little boy opens his present on Christmas morning, eagerly unwrapping the paper, fingers trembling with excitement, he pulls out....a glove. A single red knitted glove.
The next day, he opens his birthday present. It was the other glove.
Breaks yer heart, doesn't it?
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