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Weird Presents Anyone?
Posted by
michael
on Thu Dec 25, 2003 03:45 PM
from the share-the-loot dept.
from the share-the-loot dept.
g8way writes "Now that Christmas is about, it's time for presents. A joyous occasion with much drinking, fruitcake, and butt-ugly sweaters. What's the weirdest gift you've gotten so far? Personally, I got toothpaste, tic-tacs, deodorant, and a McDonalds coupon book in the same package. What's your story of Christmas present mayhem?"
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I got (Score:5, Funny)
FP (Score:5, Funny)
Aww mod parent up (Score:5, Funny)
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Blow-up doll (Score:5, Funny)
I've never felt so pathetic in my life.
Re:Blow-up doll (Score:5, Funny)
So did you try it out yet?
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Re:Blow-up doll (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Blow-up doll (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Blow-up doll (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Blow-up doll (Score:5, Funny)
Real friends would've bought you the kind with three holes.
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Re:Blow-up doll (Score:5, Funny)
I bet you'll feel even worse when you have to ask for a patch kit next year
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Re:Blow-up doll (Score:5, Funny)
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/. subscriptions? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:/. subscriptions? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:/. subscriptions? (Score:5, Funny)
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My iPod (Score:5, Funny)
Re:My iPod (Score:5, Informative)
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Bernhard Langer (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Bernhard Langer (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Bernhard Langer (Score:5, Funny)
How about getting them a Mac? My creationist cousin has one and I get a kick out of him using Darwin.
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Screw weird, this is the *COOL* present thread! (Score:5, Funny)
My mother in law excitedly handed me my gift this year with a big grin on her face. I opened the box and what was there?
A seagate Barricuda 7200rpm 120gig hard drive!
"Now you can download more movies and burn them to dvd (vcd)" she says.
Large capacity hard drives, the gift that keeps on giving all year long
Re:Screw weird, this is the *COOL* present thread! (Score:5, Funny)
I found it funny that she was advocating downloading and achiving pr0n.
Those were the types of movies she was talking about, right?
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Re:Screw weird, this is the *COOL* present thread! (Score:5, Funny)
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Anything from "The Shack" is bad (Score:5, Funny)
Oh well, maybe I'll get her back by giving some Metallica CDs.
You really "cleaned-up" for Christmas! (Score:5, Funny)
Toothpaste, breath-freshening mints, deoderant, and cheap out-of-the house food.
No pattern there.
Hmm. Unless.... Is your family trying to tell you you're spending too much time playing Everquest, and too little time playing "shower"?
Ha. (Score:5, Funny)
6 pairs of black socks
1 can of mixed nuts (i hate most nuts)
A bottle of leather conditioner (presumably for my car)
A pair of cheap $20 headphones (left side doesn't work)
15 losing $1-2 lottery tickets
$10 in gift certificates to Krispy Kreme (love them, but the closest one is an HOUR away. All Dunkin' Donuts around here.)
Speaker stands for the surround sound system I don't have.
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I gave...
My sister a nice Capresso CoffeeTEC coffee maker because her current coffee maker broke, and this does lattes and hot cocoa to boot, which she loves. Also got her an assortment of coffee from Gevalia.
My parents to share, got them 5 classic movie DVDs (Ben-Hur, Citizen Kane, On the Waterfront, Bridge on the River Kwai, Casablanca). My mom a backyard birdwatching and project book, a pair of nice binoculars. My father I got a 10GB iPod (bring his MP3s in his car without him constantly burning CDs), and a new copy of MS Trips and Streets (to replace his 1994 Rand McNally software which he still uses regularly).
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I know its not what you get, but the thought that counts, but I think I put in a lot more thought than they did.
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It's because... (Score:5, Insightful)
My own family works pretty much this way, especially my parents, who'd rather buy another set of underwear for me than subject themselves to the fear and confusion they associate with shopping online. But on the other hand, every once in a while they get things exactly right -- like, buying me the LOTR trilogy two years ago... I wouldn't have even asked for it because I hadn't read it since high school and wasn't too into it then, but once I picked it up again I was hooked. And then there's my siblings, who actually have a great sense of style and when they buy me clothes it's great. So this isn't a "poor me" rant.
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If you think getting clothes is bad... (Score:5, Funny)
Flasher Gear (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Flasher Gear (Score:5, Funny)
Be sure to cut off a pair of trouser legs at about knee height and tie the cut off pieces in place with string on your lower legs just above the calves. That way it looks like you're wearing pants as long as the coat is closed.
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Shurikens (Score:5, Funny)
Santa's dictionary is F'd (Score:5, Funny)
A gig of RAM (Score:5, Funny)
Weirdest gift I ever received... (Score:5, Funny)
Worse part was, I didn't know when the hell to stop unwrapping.
Re:Weirdest gift I ever received... (Score:5, Funny)
The high-capacity so-dimm inside didn't appreciate it.
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Shocking Roulette (Score:5, Funny)
A Gift from Nigeria (Score:5, Funny)
My wife gave me cock burns (Score:5, Funny)
We got out of debt (Score:5, Insightful)
Minimal presents to other people, no big dinner or tree and no huge tech presents for either of us. Instead we sneaked past the finish line in our "Debt Free in 2003" goal.
This Christmas is bare by many western standards, but now we can start saving for a deposit for a house. (Yeah, more debt there but what can one do about that?).
But is it really debt? (Score:5, Insightful)
Rent is debt, it's a continuing eternal debt. Owning a house is owning something that's worth something, even if you have to pay a very large amount of money for it.
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Air Horn off of a Big Truck (Score:5, Funny)
Loud? Oh my! The 100 PSI shop air will make it sing. Now, where can I install it?
Home Depot Gift Card (Score:5, Funny)
1) The nearest Home Depot is 50 miles away and I don't have a car.
2) You can't use them online.
3) There's hardly anything there you can buy for $25 that isn't sold by the pound anyway.
I'm selling it back to my dad for cash and thanking my brother politely for the thoughtful gift.
My Special Gift (Score:5, Funny)
Whiskey Flavored Condoms. (Score:5, Funny)
The one I gave to my Mom las year (Score:5, Funny)
When my mother realized it was a joke her first words to me were "Thank Lord was a joke! I was already thinking a way to get rid o it without offend you!" Them I gave her the real present
what I did (Score:5, Funny)
I got them each a Core Set deck. The one more fitting for the geeky b-in-l (Sky Slam/blue) I wrapped simply - just put it in a small box slightly larger than the deck - I also put a $5 bill in. The other one (Burn/red), I put in a large box with heavy objects (several rocks wrapped in paper). I didn't put any names on the packages.
I then let the older/less geeky b-in-l pick the present that he wanted. Being selfish, he picked the larger one. The result: a lesson hopefully learned - and if not, hopeful progress made on that lesson.
I love playing mind games with influential youngsters.
Payments. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hint... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:A Self-Help Book (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Interesting (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Microsoft Games Goddamnit!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Instead of seeing this as a negative experience, your mother knows that you are into computers and she is attempting to communicate with you that she relates to you - by acknowledging this. She likely knows nothing about computers, but she wants to try to connect to her son.
In return you should not be bitter, but give your mom a big hug, that's all she's really asking for...
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