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 things that glitter are not nice...This will make me seem like an old spoilt brat, but hey-ho:
Last birthday was a big one for me, having made 3zero I was rather happy. My parents had been banging on for months about the pressie they had got me, but due to "complications" of them getting it it, it finally came about a month after my birthday.
Anyways, they turn up for some dinner or such alike and present me with gift. I open it, and I couldn't help myself from laughing. It was a sodding gold sovereign. Not an old one, but a new commemerative one. According to my Mum "It'll be worth a lot more in the future"! Now this was a run of 15,000 for that year, and my birthday was at the end of the year, mine was numbered 2,300ish out of 15,000. So obviously if they couldn't bloody give em away in that year, what will make it's value go up?
Now give 'em their due, my presents up until that point have always been spot on (nice to get a good prerssie at 29), but it had to go. Instead I got a nice wallet, which was I had told them I wanted 3 months prrior to, when asked!
If you knew me, you would wonder what on earth I would have done with the coin. I'm not a flipping chav, and although I lived for a time in Essex, I have no burning desire to have a pikey sovereign ring/chain etc.
Gripes
(, Fri 24 Sep 2004, 8:18, Reply)
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