Thursday, 24 December 2009
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Broken Up With Via Monogram... By Your Mother-In-Law
The holidays are known to be highly sensitive times, with lots of emotion flowing pending time with family and pressure to give the perfect gift. To this end, there's a certain section of the population usually charged with giving the worst gifts: significant others of the male persuasion.
Stories from our mothers about that year dad gave her a vacuum cleaner or a toaster, or how he'll forget an anniversary every year. NPR recently aired a story where people wrote in to talk about the worst gift they'd ever received, and the story of the woman who was broken up with via Christmas gift takes the cake:CONAN: And this one - this goes along with your theme. Catherine emailed to say: My mother-in-law gave me a monogram sweater. Unfortunately, it was the initials of my husband's girlfriend. That's how I found out about it and she is now my ex mother-in-law.
DICKINSON: Whoa. Wow.
CONAN: Talk about - you know, it's bad news getting broken up with on a tweet, or an email or any way, but imagine getting broken up with by opening your Christmas gift.
DICKINSON: Getting broken up with via monogram.
The worst gift I was ever given was in one of the best relationships I'd ever had. We made it through Christmas scot-free, and I can't even remember what he gave me. But then Valentine's Day rolled around and he gave me a purple, singing, dancing monkey. From the guy who gave me a bouquet of flowers weekly. But wait! He also gave the same thing to my (single) best friend. Trying to be a nice guy I guess, but we broke up soon after.
What's the worst gift you've ever received? Or have you given something that you thought would go over well, only to have it backfire? (And for the record, I have to disagree with that NPR story in one aspect--- a Snuggie is a GREAT gift!)
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ouch, that monogram story sucks. but i hate these "worst gift" questions; they seem so ungrateful because the poor giver (probably) didn't mean to give a gift of malice.
News Flash, guys hate a ton of the gifts we get from girls. We're just mature enough to not give a shit.
my boyfriend of 1 year got me a blow dryer for christmas.......after I had given him a PS3 a week earlier for his present.
@spitinyoureye@xanga - could be an expensive blowdryer...did you need one?
I'm one of those people who feel uncomfortable opening gifts :/
(It's because I don't react like the gift-giver expects, no matter how much I love it..I just don't do well acting all excited and whatnot..I just smile and say thank you..)
But one year, I had this psychology assignment to make a collage describing my personality, and I loved it so much that I made my (at the time) boyfriend one. His was on a huge piece of posterboard and contained the things he liked and what I liked about him. (It was cute, in the center was our names and prom picture..)
Guess who ripped off MY name and picture and turned it in next semester when he took psychology and had the same assignment?
yeahhh. I was a little less than thrilled.
@lewk@xanga - well that makes me uncomfortable...
this year i got him some disc-golf discs, a custom-made band t-shirt for his own, on which i incorporated all of his computer art, a huge bin of sidewalk chalk (he threw a chalk-drawing party this past summer) ... and some candy.
he loved his star wars legos that i got for his b-day, and the monster-portrait i drew of him for our year anniv ... i hope he hasnt been faking it the whole time.
@spitinyoureye@xanga - woah that blows! o. no pun intended?
one time i got nothing. it was my birthday. turns out he didn't even know when my birthday was (which was july), and we'd started dating the previous september. he did ask me when my birthday was, but in an effort to get my best friend and him on non-hostile terms, i told him to ask her. he just didn't want to bother, so he never found out. didn't even check my facebook either. it was kind of really lame.
My mom got me the southbeach diet book one year for Christmas.
Ouch! She can't even wear that sweater.
@dearFLOPPY@xanga - I know what one it was because we were at Target the week before and I was looking at them...it was like $35....and I already had a blow dryer.
my friend's father gave her a big box of tic tacs for her birthday one year.. he didnt understand y it was insulting.. he just did it cause she liked tic tacs.. we laughed at her for a while!
idk what my worst gift was.. but my best was this bunny named duckie from build-a-bear for valentines day 2 years ago. i still sleep with her. :)
that sucks. maybe your bf just doesn't have enough cash...? :S i don't know, sounds like your bf didn't even put much thought into the gift. AND you got him such an awesome present...eek.
@MissPixieGlitter@xanga - Agreed! It's the fact that they got you something at all. Why sit there saying how much it sucks instead of being thankful?
@TheRealMelanie@xanga - Same here! I never can react exactly right! when I was a lot younger on Christmas, my aunt actually commented that I didn't like anything I got and that if I was gonna act like that I didn't deserve to get any presents. lol but ya it's just my personality, I can love a present but I don't start jumping up and down and my attempt at acting super excited doesn't always turn out right.
My (now) ex bought me my (second) favorite type of flowers for my birthday. Which would have been a great present if (a) he hadn't stolen money from me to buy them, and (b) if he hadn't given them to his mother right after he showed them to me. I guess it's my fault for my birthday falling on Mother's day.