What Were They Thinking Gifts?

[Babyblue]

Well, I don't think I can top Spam, but here’s my most memorable “What Were They Thinking?” Christmas gifts. Take your pick:

1. That wall mounted fish that sings.
2. Fast food restaurant gift certificates.
3. Neon orange sweater with really long arms & an oversized hoop neckline.
4. Kermit the frog paperweight.
5. Homemade ice cream maker..... which ended up being pretty cool b/c it did make good ice cream. It's just that I never thought I gave off that vibe, that "When I look at Jason I think 'rock salt'" -- vibe.

Kermie is cute...but just not for you.So how about Elmo???

[Babyblue]

One time my Mom gave me some expensive dress shoes back in the day when all I ever wore was jeans or cutoffs and had hair down to my ass. What was she thinking?

She wanted you to clean your act up.

[steveo777]

One time my Mom gave me some expensive dress shoes back in the day when all I ever wore was jeans or cutoffs and had hair down to my ass. What was she thinking?

She wanted you to clean your act up.

It didn't work. I came around on my own about 10 years later.

[Babyblue]

One time my Mom gave me some expensive dress shoes back in the day when all I ever wore was jeans or cutoffs and had hair down to my ass. What was she thinking?

She wanted you to clean your act up.

It didn't work. I came around on my own about 10 years later.

Well it just took you 10 years to get there.

[Triple S]

Well, I don't think I can top Spam, but here’s my most memorable “What Were They Thinking?” Christmas gifts. Take your pick:

1. That wall mounted fish that sings.

Hey - I have one of those in my basement somewhere. Keep meaning to get rid of it at our annual office $10 gift exchange but I can't be bothered to look for it.

I got a case (yes, a case) of Kraft Dinner one year. Used to travel a lot with one job, and I was complaining to the staff at the client one day about how sick I was of restaurant meals and would kill for some Kraft Dinner - got my wish!

[KDOUBLEU]

Well, I don't think I can top Spam, but here’s my most memorable “What Were They Thinking?” Christmas gifts. Take your pick:

1. That wall mounted fish that sings.

Hey - I have one of those in my basement somewhere. Keep meaning to get rid of it at our annual office $10 gift exchange but I can't be bothered to look for it.

I got a case (yes, a case) of Kraft Dinner one year. Used to travel a lot with one job, and I was complaining to the staff at the client one day about how sick I was of restaurant meals and would kill for some Kraft Dinner - got my wish!

I hate to admit it but I actually bought the mounted fish for a friend of mine (as a joke) one year..

[steveo777]

I remember buying my dad this duck phone one year. It quacks and you end up talking to the duck's ass.

[Tracie555]

Hmmm, I can remember a purple rain coat (plastic thing) with a whale on it, that my bitch of an aunt bought me when I was like 15yrs. I think my sister got a orange one with an elephant on it. So I guess she beat me on that=0)

Although, I think this year gettting a whole lotta nothing from my husband even beats that damn plastic rain coat thing. I knew that my aunt was always pissed that we were smaller than she is. I am not sure what message my hubby was trying to give me? It certainly wasn't the, "I want to win the husband of the year"award?"

[Tracie555]

No cell phones for me.

These could probably go under either the heading of "they meant well" or "what were they thinking".

I have been on oxygen since Jan 2006. I have oxygen concentrators in my office and at home. I use portable liquid oxygen for travel between them.

Oxygen is not just "flammable". It "sweetens" a fire - makes it burn hotter. And liquid oxygen is explosive - that is why it is used to power the frigging space shuttle.

In the last few years for every holiday, some well intentioned people gives me candles. Not just your little candles either.
Big candles. Aromatherapy candles. And fancy matches to light them.

Last year some friends insisted on taking me out to lunch for my birthday. I of course had my oxygen on full in the restaurant. Everything was fine until the birthday cake arrived -- covered with lit candles, and everyone was trying to get it closerd to me so I could blow them out. Think about it. People ran out of the restaurant -

This morning when my Special Transportation Services driver showed up to take me to work he grabber my oxygen with one hand while he flipped his lighter to light his cigarette with the other.

At least I do have some excitement in my life.

Cat

Well that sucks! Yeah, people do need to think a llittle sometimes=0(

[steveo777]

Hmmm, I can remember a purple rain coat (plastic thing) with a whale on it, that my bitch of an aunt bought me when I was like 15yrs. I think my sister got a orange one with an elephant on it. So I guess she beat me on that=0)

Although, I think this year gettting a whole lotta nothing from my husband even beats that damn plastic rain coat thing. I knew that my aunt was always pissed that we were smaller than she is. I am not sure what message my hubby was trying to give me? It certainly wasn't the, "I want to win the husband of the year"award?"

Uncool!

[Ratgirl]

Well my mom got her a cellphone for Christmas without asking me my thoughts on it first.

I would have hit the freakin' roof. That is not the kind of thing you get for a kid without mom and/or dad's 'ok'. You're probably right about "she meant well" but some things have a boundary line and this, in my opinion, is one of them.

Yeah, the look on my face when she opened it was not a good one. I'm still livid over it.
It's bad enough my daughter comes attached with a Nintendo DS now I get to battle the cellphone too.

[Angel]

My parents give me camping equipment EVERY year and I don't camp....I do the cabin in the woods thing, I hike some, but I don't camp to the extent that I need a camp stove, a propane lantern, a hatchet that triples as a hammer and a screwdriver....etc. Gotta love my parents though, they wish I would camp so I gotta hand it to 'em for being persistant.

[Rockindeano]

My parents give me camping equipment EVERY year and I don't camp....I do the cabin in the woods thing, I hike some, but I don't camp to the extent that I need a camp stove, a propane lantern, a hatchet that triples as a hammer and a screwdriver....etc. Gotta love my parents though, they wish I would camp so I gotta hand it to 'em for being persistant.

You live in a wonderful state. You should try it....it is a fabulous experience. Fucking under the stars? Man, awesome indeed.

[Angel]

You live in a wonderful state. You should try it....it is a fabulous experience.

I know, I have camped before, I just don't do often enough to warrant owning every possible camping product known to man....but I'm ready if I ever decide to.

Fucking under the stars?

None of that for me.

Man, awesome indeed.

I am not a man.

[Arianddu]

Hmm, there was a packet of incense, from someone who knew but forgot that I am allergic to sandalwood and jasmine. Guess what scent the incense was? Same person a few years later gave me jasmine scented bubble bath for my birthday. That time she remembered as I was unwrapping it - her face was priceless!

All time worst was probably a subscription to a hotrod magazine. I don't drive, I have no interest in cars, so I have no idea why my friend thought it would be something I'd be interested in. If it had been a motorcyling mag, I still wouldn't be interested, but at least that I'd understand.

My ex and his brother are up there for the worst gift given; their dad would always say something like 'what ever you give me I'll treasure' when they asked what he'd like for Christmas. He still brings up that they jointly gave him a gift-wrapped potato one year, and they still protest that he'd said he'd love whatever they gave him.

[parfait]

Worst thing I've ever gotten was a Ed Hardy - doesn't get anymore white trash than that.

[Michigan Girl]

Worst thing I've ever gotten was a Ed Hardy - doesn't get anymore white trash than that.

An...there, now you don't sound like white trash!!!

[steveo777]

Worst thing I've ever gotten was a Ed Hardy - doesn't get anymore white trash than that.

Which trailer park are you from?

[parfait]

Worst thing I've ever gotten was a Ed Hardy - doesn't get anymore white trash than that.

Which trailer park are you from?

This one:
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Note: thank's you to correct mines grammar's mistakes, Michigan Bitch

[Michigan Girl]

Worst thing I've ever gotten was a Ed Hardy - doesn't get anymore white trash than that.

Which trailer park are you from?

This one:
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Note: thank's you to correct mines grammar's mistakes, Michigan Bitch

lol...you're welcome~French Prick...that picture is beautiful!!
It looks like the Great Lakes of Michigan!!!

[DrFU]

Everything.

On the surface, nothing really... a gift is a gift... it wasn't that, so much as I was tired of putting in so much effort to have really special gifts for him (autographed football of his favorite all time player... a jersey I ran all over town looking for...) - stuff that I planned for well in advance - and getting the last minute brush off from him year after year after year. It's the thought that counts, I know that - but there was never any thought, just a general feeling put out of "well I HAD to buy you things, so here..." This is after I'd also done all the shopping for HIS family. he literally had NO ONE to buy gifts for except for me, and I just didn't really matter all that much. So I guess my answer is the worst gift was 7 years worth of last minute crap.

I get it, Kim. I had two different guys think it was a perfectly fine idea to have their mothers pick out my Christmas gifts from them.

[YoungJRNY]

I guess this belongs in the "she meant well" thread.. for the last 2 years my 14 yr old daughter has begged for
a cellphone. For which we have told her to wait until next year when she starts highschool. You have to realize
my daughter loses EVERYTHING and in no time flat, I predicted the future new phone will be lost, stolen or given
to the "cute" guy she has a crush on at school.

Well my mom got her a cellphone for Christmas without asking me my thoughts on it first. Oy ve.. this
should be a nice topic of conversation for the next couple days on whether she should get it now.

As unbelievable as it sounds, I got by without a cell phone until i was 17, and I'm from the cell phone generation. I could have gone another couple years without it too, although I do think it's a good idea to let kids who are driving have a phone. I think it's totally ridiculous that pre-teens and young teens are running around with cell phones these days!

Same here. You're probably the only one besides me. I didn't have a cell phone until I was 18 in the middle of my senior year. My nephew, who is 8 and my niece, who is 10, have cell phones! I'm like W-T-F who the HELL are they calling? Christ all mighty is this generation going to be unpredictable, for better or maybe for worse.

[JasonD]

I guess this belongs in the "she meant well" thread.. for the last 2 years my 14 yr old daughter has begged for
a cellphone. For which we have told her to wait until next year when she starts highschool. You have to realize
my daughter loses EVERYTHING and in no time flat, I predicted the future new phone will be lost, stolen or given
to the "cute" guy she has a crush on at school.

Well my mom got her a cellphone for Christmas without asking me my thoughts on it first. Oy ve.. this
should be a nice topic of conversation for the next couple days on whether she should get it now.

As unbelievable as it sounds, I got by without a cell phone until i was 17, and I'm from the cell phone generation. I could have gone another couple years without it too, although I do think it's a good idea to let kids who are driving have a phone. I think it's totally ridiculous that pre-teens and young teens are running around with cell phones these days!

Same here. You're probably the only one besides me. I didn't have a cell phone until I was 18 in the middle of my senior year. My nephew, who is 8 and my niece, who is 10, have cell phones! I'm like W-T-F who the HELL are they calling? Christ all mighty is this generation going to be unpredictable, for better or maybe for worse.

The cell-phone-for-kids craze became popular after Columbine b/c an onslaught of students called their parents & 911. From the people I've talked to who've gotten cell phones for their children, it's so they can stay in touch in case of a Columbine type situation, or if the child's in some other type of danger.... being following by a stranger walking home from school, for example. It's just a way to have a little more peace of mind when you're a parent. Also, if you're a soccer mom (or dad) & you gotta pick up child #1 from their game at a certain time & drive across town to pick up child #2 from band practice but you know you're running late, a cell phone is a wonderful thing to have. When my little girl gets a few years older, I'll probably get her one for safety. I want to know if some pervert tried to throw her into the back of his van & she narrowly escaped.

I have mixed feelings about Matt's comment on the driving thing, though. That can be so dangerous.

[stevew2]

Worst thing I've ever gotten was a Ed Hardy - doesn't get anymore white trash than that.

Which trailer park are you from?

This one:
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Note: thank's you to correct mines grammar's mistakes, Michigan Bitch

you mean this one

[Michigan Girl]

you mean this one

This high~rise makes me LMAO!!! :wink:

[stevew2]

you mean this one

This high~rise makes me LMAO!!! :wink:

I live in the blue and white one on the right

[parfait]

Worst thing I've ever gotten was a Ed Hardy - doesn't get anymore white trash than that.

Which trailer park are you from?

This one:
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Note: thank's you to correct mines grammar's mistakes, Michigan Bitch

you mean this one

The Hulkamania says you're wrong.