Posted on 12/14/2008 6:49:52 AM PST by yankeedame
Came across this while cruising AOL this a.m. They listed something like 50 examples but here's just s few (in no particular order). Enjoy!
P.S. What was your worst?
For the second time, we asked AOL users to share
their stories of the worst gifts they ever got, and boy,
some were doozies.
"My husband and I... He set one of
mine aside and told me it would be last, as it was
really special....It was a very high-tech bathroom scale.
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"My grandmother purchased a container
made from four emply coffee cans connected...and decorated with paper cut-outs and
stickers...Inside ... were five rolls of toilet paper...
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The first Christmas after we married,
my mother-in-law gave... My husband...a rock out of her
backyard. Pet rocks were "in" but she didn't want to spend money
on something she could get out of her yard.
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"For Christmas one year, my
mother-in-law gave me a video tape on how to give yourself a
breast exam ... that she got for free some place. It was
placed in a gift box wrapped with Christmas paper and ribbon
The nation gave me Obama as president. I have to endure it for the next 4 years. Hope not 8.
LOL...beat me by 25 seconds...while I was typing.
A golf buddy of mine gave his wife a snow blower for Christmas and, I kid you not, he had her name engraved on it. Somehow, they’re still married.
Well that last one doesn’t look so bad...
You have a great tagline. LOL
http://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=5e32d548
I remember in 1985, just after I turned 21 - four of my very best friends each bought me a fifth of Jack Daniels, all wrapped up for Christmas. There I was, Christmas morning, unwrapping all this booze in front of my conservative parents. It wasn’t a prank - just coincidental ‘’right of passage’’ gifts. My parents freaked out and the blessed morning turned into an ‘intervention’! LOL!!
Coal maybe great because it can keep you warm. However, the government will get you for causing global warming.
Lottery tickets. They were in the trash is seconds. Why would I want to participate in a tax on people who don’t know math?
Actually, one of the worst presents I got was one that I actually asked for. Does anyone remember those “electric” football games from the 60’s? The ones where the board vibrated. In the ads, they looked great but,in real life, they didn’t work. It would take two minutes to set up the lines for each play, then when you turned on the board, the players went all over the place.
Nothing is the absolute worst present - an absent present. Ugh!
Thanks! I was inspired by the election coverage of the messiah.
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