[Gumption]

This isn't funny. That woman is an ungratefully bit#h. Besides not only were they expensive but I installed them too. My wife said she liked them. So there!

[Johnny_Cipher]

It could have been a very nice gift.

[sirchtruth]

What I find most intriguing about this story is this guys name: Stan Stanley. Is his full name Stanley Stanley?

I don't understandley people using first names for surnames?

[Tax-chick]

They run these stories at every holiday ... drives me insane. I don't think there's any better present, than for your spouse to notice something you really need and get it for you, instead of listening to what the media says you want.

I'd rather my husband picked up a library book he knew I wanted, than spent a bunch of money on something useless!

[PaulJ]

Most men love to receive tools as gifts, but give one to a woman and it's grounds for divorce.

[Overtaxed]

Ping.

[EuroFrog]

I have several items in the house (well, more literally being shipped with my household goods to Texas) that my hubby has given me that I really dont like. However, with most of them, I know he put alot of thought into it and really tried to get me something he thought I would like. I love those things he got me, not because they are pretty or worth alot but because his heart was truly in it when he picked them out for me.

[Reaganesque]

I'm sorry. I'm confused. Was it Mr. Clark who gave the toilet related gift or Mr. Tinkle?

[Jhensy]

If I gave the wife that toilet seat for Christmas, I'd be wearing it.

[Reaganomics]

I once gave my soon to be wife a frying pan for her birthday. Here friend asked if she used it as soon as she unwrapped it, on me.

Hey, I was naive and when she had said she needed a frying pan I thought that was a hint.

[LibKill]

And he's still alive. Wonders never cease.

[djf]

Was it kevlar reinforced? With titanium screws?
How much is it worth to provide for her girth?
Maybe it was one of those triple wide "Custom" models.

[Crawdad]

Tinkle-me-Elmo's are very popular in some places.

[fporretto]

My Dad once bestowed upon me a set of Guidelines for Gift Selection that I've never yet departed from:

1. Don't get him something related to one of his enthusiasms. The odds are overwhelming that, if it's good, he has it already. And if it's schlock...need we go there?
2. Don't try to guess what he wants. No one is honest about what he wants, except in the instant he pulls out his credit card.
3. Never get him something he needs. That's like saying he can't see to his own needs, a terrible insult in any culture.
4. Get him something you would like to get. The odds that he'll appreciate it are no worse than they would be for any other gift-selecting strategy, and there's a bonus: if he doesn't like it, you can keep it for yourself.
5. In keeping with point 4 above, keep the receipts. Don't give them to your giftees.

I use these rules to guide my gift selections for all my friends. What's that you say? How many friends do I have? What a strange question! Why do you ask?

(tee hee)

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit the Palace Of Reason:
http://palaceofreason.com

[joesnuffy]

This year I'm not getting my wife anything for Christmas...
Last year I gave her a beautiful cemetery plot
which she refuses to use...
Rodney Dangerfield

[Teacher317]

"I could not believe it," she said. "What man gives you a toilet seat for Christmas? A fricking toilet seat, and it wasn't even that expensive."

The feminine mentality: If it's expensive, it's acceptable, even if it is a toilet seat. Whether it costs a lot of money, time, blood, sweat, tears, whatever... just so long as he suffers for me in some way.

[massadvj]

I always give me wife several things every year, some practical, some not. We needed a new toaster one year, so I bought one, wrapped it and stuck it under the tree. There were maybe five or six other gifts from me to my wife, including expensive jewelry and niceties.

For the rest of that year, everytime I saw one of my wife's friends at a social occasion all I'd get was "So... I hear you got Joanne a toaster for Christmas..."

Lesson learned. Never again.

[holdmuhbeer]

ungrateful bitches. my wife would love a garage door opener.

[FeliciaCat]

I just DO NOT understand clueless men like this...what are they thinking? What dont they understand about JEWELRY?

[sonserae]

My mom wanted a toilet seat and a trash can with wheels on it for her birthday. Dad got it for her. A few years ago I asked dad what he wanted for his birthday and he said, "batteries and 2 bags of fertilizer". I couldn't believe I gave my dad cow manure for his birthday. Some people are just practical sorts!