I protest against christmas!
Or rather my boyfriend and the fact that every single year he manages to buy or find out what I've got him as his present.

Two years ago he bought the exact same phone in the exact same colour and ended up with two as neither could be returned. Considering neither of us had mentioned phones or even seen it before I thought it a funny coincidence (after being a girl and having a strop).

Last year he very almost bought Age of Empires before I convinced him otherwise in certain hinting tones. Another coincidence? Maybe not, we'd been wanting to play it together for a while...

This year's surprise I thought was great. I'll not say what it is lest he finds this, but I'd heard him mention it a gooood few months ago and thought he'd like it. He's not loaded and having to buy christmas present himself. I did the usual warning about how he's not allowed to buy things now as it's coming to that time. He did it back to keep his ideas safe. No chance of coincidences this year. It had been so long since he'd mentioned it. Except...

Either I'm very good or he's some sort of mind reader accidentally intent on spoiling his own christmas surprises. He mentioned yesterday, out of the blue, how he was going to buy one on ebay as he really wanted one. Another dose of strong hinting on my part ("You can't afford it. " "Yes I can!" "No, listen. Do *not* buy it. That's not a suggestion." "Ah... okay.") and now he knows. At least, I kind of hope he does or he'll end up with two of those as well...

Just because it's yule-tide does not mean it's okay to start reading minds! I'm going to have to get him a tinfoil hat next year...
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 14:42, 2 replies)

God, I'm going through the exact same thing. I spent last Friday thinking of things for my girlfriend's birthday which is coming up in a few weeks. She loves the game Little Big Planet, so I thought "I'll get her a Sackboy soft toy". I also looked at activities e.g. Sphering, which I thought she'd enjoy.

I went into town with her the next day, she saw a Sackboy and said "Oh look: a Sackboy! I want one of those, I'm going to buy it". *agh* Then we went into the next shop where they had those cardboard boxes with activity days, magazines subs etc. She went straight up to the Sphering box and said "Oh I really want to do this!". *facepalm*

I should be glad we're on the same wavelength and that she'll love her presents; but I want them to be a surprise, and it's frustrating that she'll think I only got them because she mentioned it, not that I'd thought of them myself! Magh!

She's been mentioning that she wants a camcorder to do a blog, so I've bought her one as a surprise. But I'm stressing that she'll buy one herself in the meantime! I keep telling her just not to buy anything for herself for three weeks...

Who knew that buying presents for your loved ones could be so frustrating and stressful. Especially when you're buying the right things.
( awayfromthenumbers, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 15:22, closed)

I do this
I have supernatural powers when it comes to guessing what presents are, even if it isn't something I haven't mentioned to my girlfriend.

I also have a habit of deciding to buy something she was going to surprise me with.

It annoys me a bit, because I like surprises, but it annoys her a lot more, even when I protest it isn't on purpose!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 16:45, closed)