Unusual Gifting

[thehamish]

since the season tae be bleezin' ahem...xmas... is nearly upon us, and prompted by mate's rather lovely birthday pressie of new uk dvd of POSSESSION (sam neill/isabelle adjani one, i hasten to add), i was merely going to ask if anyone else has received shall we say less than festive gifts from understanding (and/or well drilled) friends and family?

[guthrie!]

Good idea mate. I suppose my recent 'got's' VIDEO NASTIES: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE and COI VOLUME 4: STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! Are xmas prezzies off the wife and my step kids are supposed to be putting some cash into my paypal account because i've told 'em if you're going to get me anything make it films or cash (if nothing or can't afford then no problem), just don't go thinking of buying me some bloody £2 trinkets or whatever because i'm just film famished!!?

[Deranged]

We run a Secret Santa thing at work and one year I was presented with a wrapped gift and a "don't open it at home in front of the family" warning. Turned out that I'd been purchased a chocolate cock and the (supposed) lady who had bought it said that she'd tried to get me chocolate nipples but they were out of stock and therefore bought "the next best thing"!

[guthrie!]

Hey Dreanged! Have you seen THE SHOCKS series? Japanese mondo-weirdness thingybob's. Mentioning rude confectionary just reminded me of a scene in that, mind you i think this was originally filmed for one of them THIS IS AMERICA mondos (mondo-ish anyway). I think that's the right title anyway.

[Laur]

Once I spend a ski holiday with casamundo in the Alps - my whole family around, so there were like 3 generations sitting, the grandparents, we (the parents), also my sister and her husband and our children. My husband wanted to make me a favor and bought some ...well...let's say special toys and lingerie. Of course he wasn't stupid and hid the present in our room. But since I was the one who prepared the christmas tree and the presents, I put everything I could find underneath the tree.

Additional you need to know that my husband is an idiot when it comes to wrap packages up. So he asked my sister to wrap up the package in which he had put the stuff for me. She used for all the presents she made the same paper. Guess what happened?

Exactly. I wasn't the one opening the package. It never occured to my husband that I could have put his special package underneath the christmas tree. Guess who opened the package at last? EXACTLY. My mother. Until then we'd look like one of the families in TV, happy and innocent with the spirit of christmas. My mother turned pale when she opened that package, then red, the children asked what the stuff was for and my husband nearly fainted. Was the most embarassing christmas ever but now when I tell it it's really funny, isn't it? It's still the best christmas joke we adults share with each other.

The most funny thing is that my father seemed disappointed when my mother gave the stuff to me.

[thehamish]

Once I spend a ski holiday with casamundo in the Alps - my whole family around, so there were like 3 generations sitting, the grandparents, we (the parents), also my sister and her husband and our children. My husband wanted to make me a favor and bought some ...well...let's say special toys and lingerie. Of course he wasn't stupid and hid the present in our room. But since I was the one who prepared the christmas tree and the presents, I put everything I could find underneath the tree.

Additional you need to know that my husband is an idiot when it comes to wrap packages up. So he asked my sister to wrap up the package in which he had put the stuff for me. She used for all the presents she made the same paper. Guess what happened?

Exactly. I wasn't the one opening the package. It never occured to my husband that I could have put his special package underneath the christmas tree. Guess who opened the package at last? EXACTLY. My mother. Until then we'd look like one of the families in TV, happy and innocent with the spirit of christmas. My mother turned pale when she opened that package, then red, the children asked what the stuff was for and my husband nearly fainted. Was the most embarassing christmas ever but now when I tell it it's really funny, isn't it? It's still the best christmas joke we adults share with each other.

The most funny thing is that my father seemed disappointed when my mother gave the stuff to me.

wow, thats a doozie....could almost be an segment in a sexual version of an Amicus portmaneau....

[cbradfordshreds]

Once I spend a ski holiday with casamundo in the Alps - my whole family around, so there were like 3 generations sitting, the grandparents, we (the parents), also my sister and her husband and our children. My husband wanted to make me a favor and bought some ...well...let's say special toys and lingerie. Of course he wasn't stupid and hid the present in our room. But since I was the one who prepared the christmas tree and the presents, I put everything I could find underneath the tree.

Additional you need to know that my husband is an idiot when it comes to wrap packages up. So he asked my sister to wrap up the package in which he had put the stuff for me. She used for all the presents she made the same paper. Guess what happened?

Exactly. I wasn't the one opening the package. It never occured to my husband that I could have put his special package underneath the christmas tree. Guess who opened the package at last? EXACTLY. My mother. Until then we'd look like one of the families in TV, happy and innocent with the spirit of christmas. My mother turned pale when she opened that package, then red, the children asked what the stuff was for and my husband nearly fainted. Was the most embarassing christmas ever but now when I tell it it's really funny, isn't it? It's still the best christmas joke we adults share with each other.

The most funny thing is that my father seemed disappointed when my mother gave the stuff to me.

Great story Laur - lol!

[Laur]

Great story Laur - lol!

Yeah now I think so too. But every christmas AFTER that I'll take extra care that I don't put any presents under the christmas tree except my own because with them I know exactly what's inside!!!

hope I never have to explain to my kids later on this confusing christmas. hope they forget about it.