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23 NovPresent and Incorrect

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It will soon be my birthday and this year I have introduced a complete ban on presents.  I beg my friends and family to do the decent thing- reciprocate and liberate me from the time, trouble and expense of choosing gifts for them.

The final straw came last year when someone who knows me very well bought me a Slanket.  This abomination is a £25 square of scratchy fleece material ( oversized even for Arnold Swarzenegger) for certified slobs to enjoy.  It’s for loafing around all day, and some of the night, until it’s time for a sideways move from the Slanket into the duvet.  That manoeuvre would  probably be the only exercise a Slanket enthusiast would get all day. It has pouch pockets on the front roomy enough for a tv remote and a Mars Bar six pack.

My husband hasn’t given me a present for 30 years since he went through a phase of  buying me waxed huntin’, fishin’, shootin’ clothes from an Army Surplus Store and I thanked him with a heavy blunt object.

If I changed my mind and told him there had been a rule change, I know he would head straight for Robert Dyas, or Wickes. And I don’t want any charity goats, either, thanks very much.

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6 Responses to “Present and Incorrect”

  1. Ross Mountney says:
    November 25, 2009 at

    I have complete empathy for this! Presents are a total minefield of either having to put your requirements in writing or opening something more suited to the dog’s grandmother! Good luck and birthday wishes to you! Ross

  2. Anna May says:
    November 25, 2009 at

    Hi Ross,
    Glad to hear you’re in my corner on this one !
    Anna May x

  3. mike deller says:
    November 26, 2009 at

    Every year the same the things happens – the GLW and I walk around a shop, she says “Is there something here you would like as a present?’, I point to something and she says “‘Now I can’t buy it for you – it won’t be a surprise.’

  4. Anna May says:
    November 27, 2009 at

    Mike,
    GLW ????
    Anna May x

  5. Fran says:
    December 12, 2009 at

    I like your blog. Came over to see it from Leaf Books. I have complete sympathy with your present dilemmas. It took years for me to persuade my other half not to buy me ironing board covers or slotted spoons. I get perfume and chocolates now, but 27 years on, I think it’s about time anyway.

  6. Anna May says:
    December 12, 2009 at

    Hello Fran, you are very welcome over here ! 27 years????? Men are such slow learners :)

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