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What are the worst Christmas gifts YOU ever received? My favorite useless gift: When I was about 10, my great-aunt gave me a
dickey and I didn't have a clue what it was. I never did wear it, and I
think I still have it. Another aunt, 15 years later, gave me a lame off-brand fake Jenga game,
and then embarked on a series of craft-fair gifts, including a little
styrofoam-ball knitted snowman (which the cats finally found in an open
cabinet and tore apart), a surprisingly nice clay soap dispenser (which
we had no use for at the time but then my wife got hooked on liquid soap
after my nephew's leukemia relapsed), and, finally, a truly grotesque
plaster-and-wire figurine of a big orange bird in a yellow hat, lying on
its back with a small purple bird sitting on its fingers. After that
one, she announced she was giving up sending Christmas gifts to adult
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-I lived in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for nine months when I was six.
For Christmas I got a hockey stick. No skates...just a hockey stick.
I figured that people from Mississippi didn't know much about skates
or perhaps my mother vetoed the idea because of my "corrective shoe"
situation. I never actually needed corrective shoes. Whoever got my
parents started on that deal, I'll never know...unless I ask of course. |
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