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Ever got what you wanted for xmas and wished you hadnt wished for it?

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by chinese crested, Dec 10, 2012.

  1. CHINESE CRESTED

    chinese crested Slightly Tilted

    Many years age, coming up to the holidays, myself and the ladies I worked with were talking about what we would like for xmas. I said 'I hope Santa brings me a nice man for xmas' - joking like.
    Christmas morning theres a knock at the door, and I open it, and theres this old chap there wearing a short sleeve shirt and a knitted vest - no jacket - must have seen eighty winters - and he said to me 'Can you help me? I dont know who I am or where I have come from'. I bought him in and gave him a cup of tea - the British cure all, and talked with him. He knew that he had a son, and that his son had not asked him to join him and his family for Christmas. He remembered where his doctors surgery was - a practice among a few others in the same building - but not his doctors name. I called the police, and they came out, and found his name written on a tab in the back of the old chaps vest, and found the home he had walked out of, and took him back there. I so wanted to invite him to stay for dinner - but not the done thing.
    Son said. Women! Get them what they ask for, and they're still not happy!
    Anyone else got what they asked for and still not been happy?
     
    chinese crested, Dec 10, 2012
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  2. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Once, I asked for a bird book. I asked for a very specific bird book because I had had an opportunity to look at several and picked the one that met my needs for my region and in terms of description. It had a layout I liked as well. I didn't get that bird book--I got a different one from a different publisher that because it used real pictures instead of drawings, they couldn't fit all of the additional pictures a birder sometimes needs for identification--juveniles, females, etc. The organization was also poor. So yes, I got what I wanted, and I tried to be happy about it, but what I should have done instead is asked for a gift card in order to purchase the book I want. That seems to be where my parents go wrong--I ask for a specific thing, and instead, they use their own judgment to get me something similar. There is also the incident of the polka dot bathrobe. I asked for a specific fluffy yellow bathrobe from Target. According to my mother, my dad apparently saw the fluffy yellow bathrobe while at the store, yet ignored it, and picked out this absolutely ugly black satin bathrobe with multicolored polka dots and a pink liner. Seriously, I've never seen anything uglier. I don't know why he thought I would prefer it over the one I'd asked for. Suffice it to say, I exchanged it for what I did want. I rarely exchange gifts, but the ugly bathrobe was not to be borne!
     
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  3. fflowley

    fflowley Don't just do something, stand there!

    I remember being about 10 years old......I wanted one of those little hand held video games, can't remember which one.
    I also asked for a boxed card game.
    The thing I really, really wanted though was the handheld video game.
    First night of Hannukah, mom shows me the wrapped gifts and lets me choose one.
    Thought for sure I could pick the video game by the size and weight. Turned out the card game was exactly like it.
    I started peeling wrapping paper and felt the big hot tears welling up in my eyes. I bawled like a toddler.
    And mom patted my head and made a special, one night exception and gave me a second gift for that night.
    Thanks mom. I will always remember that.
     
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  4. Xerxes

    Xerxes Bulking.

    Every fucking thing for christmas I got I never wanted. Whats worse is that I never asked for any of that shit. Which is why I hate the fucking holidays.

    BAH-HAMBUG!
     
    Xerxes, Dec 10, 2012
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  5. CHINESE CRESTED

    chinese crested Slightly Tilted

    chinese crested, Dec 12, 2012
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