Posted on 12/24/2009 6:25:39 AM PST by ODDITHER
Worst gift - One time when I was exiled in Wisconsin and so home sick for Colorado, a friend decided to visit for Christmas. She asked what I wanted from Colorado and I said anything, I would even welcome a Colorado Cow pie.
Well - she took me at my word and spray painted a cow pie gold and put glitter on it. It was quite lovely actually, except it wasn't quite dry all the way through. After an evening of wondering what smelled under the tree she said, you might want to open my present. We did and had a great laugh and promptly put the present back into it's wrapping and set it on the front porch.
Much to our surprise and chuckles, someone over night had stolen the present. He He. Best Gift - My best gift was also my worst gift. My sister and I had a beautiful huge gift under the tree. My mother filled a box (the size that would hold a large television) full of trash. There was coffee grounds and banana peels and egg shells as well as paper etc. We had to dig through the trash and at the bottom found a picture of a horse. We were so disappointed, not only did we get just a picture, we didn't get the horse. Then on top of it Mom and Dad made us get dressed and take the trash outside. When we went outside, there was Old Copper standing in the back yard.
you didn’t shoot your eye out did you...??...lol...merry christmas...
i vote this the best rememberance...would love to have my dad back for one more Christmas...you made my screen blurry...
My best: Too numerous to mention.
Worst gift ever received......big, fake nugget gold wrist watch, (think rapper style) my mother in law I guess either hates me or really thinks I would like this.
I know what you mean. Harry Reid got me something so terrible that he had to threaten me with five years in prison if I didn't accept his "gift". I've lived in rough areas before, places where sleazy organizations made such offers that you couldn't refuse in order to pry your money from your wallet against your will, but I never expected my government to stoop that low.
Same here, except the year was 1972. I swear that year also had the longest Christmas Church service ever... all I could think about was getting home to get that train set up and running. Great memories!
Thanks.
I even have my steam locomotive from my freight car set that produces smoke. Finding the smoke pills was easy 'cause there is an antique train store here in Dallas.
now that’s funny!
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