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Posted: 01.02.2002
All tuckered out
Well both trees have been taken down and everything safely packed away - the lights on the outside of the house were all removed - and all of the thank-you's have been signed, sealed, and addressed to go. So how does one feel in the midst of all this? Just take a look for yourself.

I faced an interesting etiquette dilemna when writing the thank-you's this year. We have two friends, one of which is an incurable practical joker. Only not the "nice, silly" kind, and unfortunately not always the funny kind either. Along with an absolutely stunning Lenox china "first year in your new home" 2001 ornament, they also included a university of texas t-shirt. They just moved to Dallas this year and thought it would be funny. Not. And I feel really bad b/c they didn't just ship one of those $3.99 fall-apart-after-one-washing shirts either. Oh no. They sent a very nice shirt, in all it's nauseating orange glory. I didn't quite know how to say thanks (Todd wouldn't even leave it in the house once we opened the box), so I just joked and said "thank you for the lovely toilet bowl cleaner". She also just e-mailed minutes ago to ask what we thought of it because there's more where that came from. (They are from NY btw, so this is not an alumni-taunting-another-alumni joke.) I politely begged her to just donate the money they would spend on something like that next year to an animal shelter, or a fund to help keep Bevo sedated -- because believe me, the husband would do it EVERY year. We'll see if that works. Oh well, I guess at least it's not the 14" bright purple dild0, and "pickle-shaped" vibrat0rs, they were sending a few years back. I really don't mean to sound ungrateful, but I would guess we've received over $150 in naughty gag-gifts from them in the last 5 years and I really would love to see it go to a child without presents instead. Sigh.



Hey boy take a look at me...let me dirty up your mind...



Happy New year sweetie!!!
With love,
fel

¤ ¤ credit: felicia | 01.02.02 at 11:42 AM | link--this ¤ ¤

I would feel the same way, should someone send this Red Sox fan a Yankees shirt! :-)

¤ ¤ credit: christine | 01.02.02 at 11:58 AM | link--this ¤ ¤

that's a tough situation! i'm so with you on donating the money to something worthwhile. i hope they'll get the hint... and if not, maybe we can find some starving stripper/porn star organization to donate the naughty gifts to! ;)

¤ ¤ credit: susannah | 01.02.02 at 02:26 PM | link--this ¤ ¤

Why do I imagine Todd having already dropped everything to send off his resume to chair that organization, Susannah -- or found it if none exists already. LOL! Not for the weak of heart (there are b00bies here), but here's a cause along those lines that cracked us up when left in his blog...

¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 01.02.02 at 04:12 PM | link--this ¤ ¤

Maybe they (being NY'ers) think that it's just a "Texas" t-shirt and not a tu t-shirt? Could they innocently not know better? Tell 'em to send you some nice "regular" touristy Texas or Dallas shirts instead! Or at least send A&M shirts so the colors are right! (sneaking in a "Gig 'Em!" Aggies!")

¤ ¤ credit: Christine | 01.03.02 at 07:59 PM | link--this ¤ ¤

Nope, they knew...it was definitely on purpose... ;-)

¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 01.03.02 at 08:10 PM | link--this ¤ ¤

Ouch. My dad likes to give gag gifts, too. Stuff that is supposed to piss me off, make me laugh, throw it in a box and do nothing with it. I do it right back to him. This year I bought him a jellybean dispenser that literally looks like it's shitting jellybeans.

Come on. Have a little fun.

Realize that that is their way of communicating - sometimes a sense of humor is the only thing some people HAVE, and I can think of much, much worse traits, such as not having one at all. lol

¤ ¤ credit: Candi | 01.04.02 at 06:53 PM | link--this ¤ ¤

Sorry Candi -- I guess I'm just not the sort to find 3 years worth of dild0s very funny. Once yes...but... ;-) I'm hella-lame! But, I'm ok with that.

¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 01.04.02 at 06:56 PM | link--this ¤ ¤

Oh. Three years worth? Yeah, that's stupid. Nevermind what I said then. Gag gifts should never be duplicated!

¤ ¤ credit: Candi | 01.05.02 at 06:43 PM | link--this ¤ ¤




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