gift giving...behind the bunk
Has this ever happened to you? You're out somewhere and someone starts to buy something but before they can someone else says "WAIT DON'T GET IT!" because they want to get it for them for Christmas. There is a small percentage of times when I think this is ok but lets face it. If you've got to struggle that hard to get someone a present you're totally defeating the purpose of getting a present in the first place. It's not exactly thoughtful to stop someone from buying something they want and make them wait two weeks to get it just so you get a lame "easy out" for their gift this holiday season, in fact it's down right rude. That is almost as thoughtless as buying a gift card. Look, give 'em cash so they can buy whatever they want but better yet invest the time to think of a heartfelt gift. The bottom line is, if you don't want to get someone a present then you just shouldn't, even if they're family or something. So what if this means that some people get no presents for Christmas? If this rule were in force then maybe it'll help to give those people a good idea of their social standing with everyone and encourage them to work on not being hateful losers for the rest of the next year. Then if they win some people over they'll get presents next time. When presents stop being from the heart then they're just obligatory "niceties" like say, tipping your waitress. At first people tipped waitresses because they did a good job (or were really hot.) Now no matter HOW sucky the person is you have to leave them something. Waitresses get paid less by their employers now because of it and we all have to deal with the extra $6 loss at a nice restaurant for the 2 refills and extra bread he/she brought us. Geeze. I'm off to frolic in grumpyville for the rest of the evening. JUUUUST kidding. I'm quite happy as I'm about to play some halo2!
I once knew a guy that could choke a grizzly with a coaxial cable!
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I agree with you 100%. My roommate and his g/f had to make sure they both spent exactly $400 on each other. What kinda crap is that?
Oh, btw, this comment is my christmas present to you ;)
--Jeffcoat
So...what you're saying is, if I didn't get you a gift this Christmas then that would be reinforcement for you not to be a jackhole next year? Are you kidding me?? That's awesome! Why didn't you tell me this, like, six years ago???
Your happy-to-be-saving-some-money sister, Melissa
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