If, like me, gift giving isn’t your thing, perhaps you can take some solace in reading of bombs like this:
“Man Says He Gave Wife Toilet Seat as Gift”
Gary and Karri Clark haven’t forgotten their second Christmas together. He knew she wanted bathroom accessories, so he wrapped up a couple of gifts and waited.
The toilet seat and towel rack didn’t go over too well.
“Here I thought I was doing good,” he recalled with a laugh. “It was something she can always use, day after day. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.”
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Karri Clark admits she wanted a new toilet seat a decade ago because there was a crack in the old one. She just didn’t think she’d get one gift wrapped.
“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.”
Via Counterspin Central.
I was listening to a radio call-in show where people were asked what was the worst Christmas gift that they ever got…the winner in my book:
A man called in to say that his mother one year bought him a life insurance policy and named herself as the beneficiary. Then for the next 10 years his gift was always here paying the premium.
I’d be careful of mom’s cooking if I were him…
Some of the best advice I’ve ever heard on gifts for women: “Never give a woman a gift that has an electrical cord.”