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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'A Walk along the Ganges'My brother's godfather is a high-up churchman who lives in Windsor Castle (and is therefore not what one might call 'on the breadline'). Also being a churchy type you might think he'd take his godfatherly status seriously and this would be reflected in the thoughtfulness of his gift-buying. You would be wrong.
One year he gave my bro (aged about 15 at the time) a Windsor Castle teatowel - clearly purloined from the gift shop in said castle. Another year he passed on a book about some fucking vicar who walked along the Ganges, with whoever originally gave it to him's birthday wishes still written inside.
Blessed are the stingy and lazy. Psalms IV.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 24 Sep 2004, 12:08,
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