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What we’ve been talking about As more and more Christmas sparkle starts to appear in shops and we begin to look out our festive jumpers, we at List HQ have been reminiscing about our worst Yuletide gifts - both given and received. Let’s hope these sorry stories don’t get a repeat this year...
Don’t know if this counts but I once forgot to get my pal a pressie so when she gave me mine I just took one from under my tree (one that was
given to me from another pal). I was dying to find out what it
was on Christmas but could never ask her! They never
found out.
Millionaire Matchmaker (I love a bit of Patti Stanger and her wine mixers)
and The Big Bang Theory (‘penny, penny, penny . . . ‘)
I once gave a friend a DVD box-set of In
Treatment, the therapy drama starring Gabriel Byrne. Little did I know that he’d just gone into couples counselling with his wife. Ouch.
My brother bought
me a ceramic
elephant garden decoration. I don’t
have a garden,
not any opinion on
elephants.
My sister’s birthday is on Christmas Eve. For her 12th
birthday our Gran bought her a jigsaw, followed by a jigsaw carrier on Christmas Day, because what use is a jigsaw if you can’t take it
everywhere with you?
My best friend once bought me a bag of fat balls for birds. I don’t have pet birds,
he just thought it would be funny ‘since I’d put on
weight’.
My mum, god love her, bought me some clothes in the sale, they ranged
from a size 6 to a 16, I’m a 12! I ended up giving some of them to my brother’s then petite girlfriend and the rest to
charity :(
When I was about 8, I really wanted a budgie. My parents pretended they got me one for Christmas, and then pissed themselves when I opened a card with a picture of a budgie on it. Obviously I found it HILARIOUS. Luckily I am not bitter about it....
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