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 fucking bus conductor's outfit..."Round about this time of year when we were kids my nan asked me and my brother what we wanted to be when we grew up. I gave a typically kiddy answer and said I wanted to be an astronaut, my younger brother (who would have been all of 5 years old at the time) said he wanted to be a bus conductor. After all the grown-ups had stopped laughing at this we had a biscuit and it was all forgotten about.
Or so we thought.
So Christmas rolls around and it comes to nan's presents. I was only a kid so I didn't even sense the worst when I saw my brother open up a shiny astronaut outfit. I eagerly tore the paper off hoping for something equally as cool only to be confronted with a fucking bus conductor's outfit. The silly mare had got our 'dream jobs' mixed up.
If I can find it I'll post the photo of me and my brother in front of the christmas tree in our outfits. Him pretending to be walking without gravity and looking like Spaceman Spiff and me looking dead miserable in a fucking bus conductor's outfit complete with a fucking ticket machine.
They even made me give out tickets everytime someone entered or left the room.
Fucking bus conductors.
(, Fri 24 Sep 2004, 13:25, Reply)
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