Thursday, May 18, 2006
Gifts and The Misguided Thougts Behind Them
It's the thought that counts, even when there's clearly no thought involved. I continue to be amused by gifts my friends get from boyfriends. Whenever a friend gets a particularly bad gift from a boyfriend, I alwaystry to tell them it doesn't (necessarily) mean he doesn't love you, or that he wasn't thinking, but that he just doesn't get it.
I once had a roommate who was the down to earth crunchy granola type. Her long-term boyfriend gave her for Christmas a lime green sequined nylon pantsuit. I never saw it, but she decribed it like one of those cheesy nylon liesure suits women in Las Vegas or New Jersey wore mainly in the early ninetys. She said it was as if he walked into a store and pointed to the first thing he saw and said "I'll take that." Clearly no thought involved.
Another friend T was kind-of sort-of dating a guy. For christmas during the kind-of sort-of period he gave her a lovely set of (name brand) china salad tongs. That's right, salad tongs. Not the kind of thing you want even from a family member, and especially not from a guy your kind-of sort-of dating. I personally think it was a recycled gift of some sort that seemed to him vaguely female appropriate. But he obviously just didn't get it either.
My friend M was dating a guy who for Valentine's Day gave her a bag of oranges. Not a gourmet gift basket of oranges, but a plastic mesh bag of oranges from Kroger. She chucked them one-by-one into the woods and felt good about doing her part to combat scurvey in the squirrel population. The relationship ended soon after.
So usually it means he doesn't get it. Maybe not always. Decide for yourself. And please share away with more amusing and ill-advised gifts to and from loved ones. ¶ 6:40 PM
I once had a roommate who was the down to earth crunchy granola type. Her long-term boyfriend gave her for Christmas a lime green sequined nylon pantsuit. I never saw it, but she decribed it like one of those cheesy nylon liesure suits women in Las Vegas or New Jersey wore mainly in the early ninetys. She said it was as if he walked into a store and pointed to the first thing he saw and said "I'll take that." Clearly no thought involved.
Another friend T was kind-of sort-of dating a guy. For christmas during the kind-of sort-of period he gave her a lovely set of (name brand) china salad tongs. That's right, salad tongs. Not the kind of thing you want even from a family member, and especially not from a guy your kind-of sort-of dating. I personally think it was a recycled gift of some sort that seemed to him vaguely female appropriate. But he obviously just didn't get it either.
My friend M was dating a guy who for Valentine's Day gave her a bag of oranges. Not a gourmet gift basket of oranges, but a plastic mesh bag of oranges from Kroger. She chucked them one-by-one into the woods and felt good about doing her part to combat scurvey in the squirrel population. The relationship ended soon after.
So usually it means he doesn't get it. Maybe not always. Decide for yourself. And please share away with more amusing and ill-advised gifts to and from loved ones. ¶ 6:40 PM
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well i always give great gifts but have nothing to show for it in the ladies dept.
but i guess princesses are hard to please ;)
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but i guess princesses are hard to please ;)
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