Trouble in Paradise
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"Evolutionary game theorists...ignoring beebees on the nest since 2005"
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Since it's almost Christmas
What's the worst gift anyone has ever gotten you?
"Evolutionary game theorists...ignoring beebees on the nest since 2005"
Re: Since it's almost Christmas
I've gotten some pretty heinous clothes before. Stuff that isn't made to go on a normally proportioned human body but would look pretty cute on an oompa loompa. Those are the worst because then I end up returning them and having to find something else in the store to wear, and they usually make all of their clothes to the same measurements.
There is a pre-story.
When I was a kid, I remember being in a gas station (this is back in the day when you had to actually go to the cashier to pay!!!) w/ my dad and seeing this display of HORRID "gold" necklaces. I think you got 10 for $10. Something like that. They were ugly, clearly cheap, etc.
A few weeks later we were exchanging gifts w/ extended family, and what did I get from my aunt? A set of those necklaces. I think they ended up in the trash later that day.
Even as a KID I knew how cheap they were and I was actually almost insulted that they gave them to me.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
Three years ago my sister sent me a creme colored XXL flannel night gown (I'm generally a size S or M) that went to the floor with a button down front and granny collar in red strips.
I showed it to some friends and they about died laughing. Who sends that kind of night gown to their 27 year old single sister? It got put in the good will bag ASAP after receiving it.
I have those! My parents also do pajamas and these were last year's flavor. I call it the Amish Moomoo. It's RIDICULOUS!
I call it birth control! Haha.
My mom wears these, and not in an ironic way.
I got an accordian and a harmonica one year.
Apparently my parents wanted me to be a "one-man band" like Burt in Mary Poppins.
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Interro - mine was definitely not a joke. I called to make sure and my sister was dead serious about it.
My mom will often get me some hideous, matronly sweater or jacket or something. You know, some high-necked boxy cut with weird, chunky buttons, that kind of thing that women of a certain age find irresistible. Just the kind of thing that SHE likes and SHE thinks looks good on HER.
So I usually say something like, "Oh gee, I don't know what I would wear this with, but I think this would look really cute on you, Mom! Why don't you try it out?" and she's all "Oh really? Are you sure? You're right, it would probably look cute on me!" And so I give it to her five seconds after opening it.
This exact thing has happened several times.