
12-30-2008, 05:51 AM
I didn't receive any useless gifts from my family this year, but that has happened in the past.
I did, for example, once receive a particularly frightful, off-neon green cable-knit sweater from my grandmother. And, since I have breasts, it was short on my torso and showed my belly button. It was a peculiar kind of hideous that belongs on the list of deadly sins.
My response to it was something along the lines of: :o WTF?
I also have an aunt who is a very enthusiastic "Greenie"-- as am I, but she takes it too far. She thinks that plastic is evil, so as a way of "helping me" to avoid using the plastic tupperware I usually take to restaurants-- so that I don't waste restaurant take away boxes-- she got me a giant metal layered contraption of doom which is, at best, useless, and at worst it is impossible to store. And after she gave it to me she nodded her head smilingly, as though I were slow of the mind, and said, "Now you can throw away your plastic ones!"
Er. Right.
Her heart was in the right place?...
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