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Post by vampiroporvida on Dec 18, 2020 16:10:42 GMT -5
Ho ho ho, Wfigs. 'Tis the season for me to be reminded of the funny gifts and pranks my loved ones played on me, and others, over time with Christmas gifts. Have you ever russian nesting dolled a present? Have you ever had money locked away in one of those Spencer Gifts nearly impossible to open puzzle case lock things (my dad did that to me and laughed for an hour...I beat the puzzle, but it was almost with a hammer  )? Have you ever gotten coal? Balloons with notes in them? Present hunts? Tell the funny stories to us all, that surely, in the moment, were anything but funny to us getting them, and the opposite for those giving them. Merry Christmakuh all! VPV |
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Post by Oskanowski on Dec 18, 2020 22:57:38 GMT -5
I received some jelly beans one year in my stocking, little did I know they were the Harry Potter flavored ones tasting like rotten egg, soap, earwax and dirt.
I was already eating three of the four by that point in my life anyway but still, not what I want when it comes to jelly beans. It was a good gag.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Dec 19, 2020 13:13:25 GMT -5
I want to hear the story about the wolf's head gutter spout again!
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Post by Valbroski on Dec 19, 2020 13:39:34 GMT -5
 When I was 15, an aunt and uncle on my dad's side got me this. Keep in mind I'm only 27, so it's not like we're talking about a period of time where this is something a 15 year old would actually want. It also had a clearance sticker on it if I recall. |
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Post by Retrospect on Dec 19, 2020 14:00:41 GMT -5
When I was 15, an aunt and uncle on my dad's side got me this. Keep in mind I'm only 27, so it's not like we're talking about a period of time where this is something a 15 year old would actually want. It also had a clearance sticker on it if I recall. Your reaction when you opened it?  |
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Post by J'Dinkalage Morgoone on Dec 19, 2020 14:24:46 GMT -5
one christmas i received a pack of batteries, a used tire and a tv with a broken remote.
my parents were poor that year lol
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Post by JC Motors on Dec 19, 2020 17:37:28 GMT -5
one christmas i received a pack of batteries, a used tire and a tv with a broken remote. my parents were poor that year lol Wow. That's sad |
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Post by J'Dinkalage Morgoone on Dec 19, 2020 17:58:16 GMT -5
one christmas i received a pack of batteries, a used tire and a tv with a broken remote. my parents were poor that year lol Wow. That's sad transmission randomly decided to go out on their truck like a week before christmas, they are notorious about shopping christmas eve for christmas. every christmas before that had been great, just that one they were dead ass broke. needless to say i grew up that christmas, made me humble ever since. |
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 20, 2020 10:37:13 GMT -5
Wrestling related LOL!
Some may know that Ivan Koloff got involved with Children's Miracle Network in the 1990s and in doing so would hook up with Walmart stores where he did autograph signings for charity. He befriended a guy who became Vladimir Koloff and they both did signings together. At some point Ivan either stopped doing them or limited where he did them. Vladimir was now on his own doing signings selling 8x10s with him wearing an indy fed belt. I'm sure the profits were not going to charity nor were they probably advertised as such!
One year, not christmas realted, my grandmother brought me home an 8x10 signed. I felt like Bart getting the Lee Carvellho golf game I was so disappointed. Not too long after, on the actual christmas day my aunt gave me a box which contained...YOU GUESSED IT...a Vladimir Koloff signed 8x10. Again, "Bart...golf game..." As I grew up I hated how guys like Vladimir would probably prey on unsuspecting woman whose family members like wrestling. The saving grace of that gift was that my aunt also had a Gillberg signed 8x10 as he had come in to her job, Hechinger, at the time. He is in the construction field too so I guess he wound up stopping by and she recognized him. For a brief time in the early 2000s I befriends Duane Gill and he treated me like royalty when I went to watch his TV tapings at his school so that gift is def. pretty great. But the Koloff outweighs it LOL.
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Post by shanieomaniac on Dec 22, 2020 8:57:39 GMT -5
I live in western PA so sometimes, when you're digging a flower garden or something, you find coal. I was at someone's house when this very thing happened. They were digging a flower garden and found a bunch of coal. Just random deposit of coal just beneath the surface. I gathered up a bunch of it and threw it in a box and gave it to my dad for Christmas. He thought it was hilarious and kept it. I don't know where he stashed it, but I'm pretty sure he still has the box of coal somewhere in his house. On other years, I've gotten him coal-shaped licorice drops and this year, his stocking will be graced with coal-shaped chocolates wrapped in black foil. It's become a running joke by this point that, somehow, he gets coal for Christmas. EDIT: Yes, you said stories that "Weren't funny at the time" but you mentioned getting coal so I thought I'd share. EDIT #2: A story more in line with your original idea... I often bellyache to my one friend about how my family never gets me anything I ask for for Christmas. Well, I'm pretty certain it got back to them because, just last year, my family kept hinting at all sorts of fun stuff I would get for Christmas. Like, I'd mention something I was trying to save money for, and they'd be like "Oh, maybe Santa will bring it..." or whatever. Well, two days before Christmas, my mother dropped a line of "Prepare to be disappointed". I was confused. Hadn't they been hinting at a bunch of stuff? Well, Christmas came... and I got literally nothing I would ever possibly want or ask for. The most exciting thing I got last year was a COFFEE MUG. I actually broke down crying I was so upset. Apparently they wanted to teach me a lesson.
Well, lesson learned. It was a huge wake up call to me about how greedy I was being and I've worked really hard this past year to overcome my greed and become more self sufficient. I haven't complained once all year, and in return, I know of several specific things I asked for that I DID get. Of course, last year did lead to the issue that arose this year that, with more disposable income, I keep buying everything I want myself, leading to my mom getting frustrated because I kept buying her ideas out from under her! But hopefully, in 3 days time, we'll have a good day. I splurged on my folks this year, and it really is about the giving, so I hope they like what I got them.
It's funny in retrospect. I never realized just how harsh my family could be when they wanted to. But sometimes, tough love is required.
I really do treasure that mug though.
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Post by JC Motors on Dec 22, 2020 13:33:00 GMT -5
One Christmas my mom made a pot of pasta sauce on the back porch to stay cold. Mom, or Dad let out our Dalmatian, Homer and he knocked over Mom's pot of pasta sauce. She was super pissed that Homer knocked over her pot of sauce. She had through all the trouble to make the sauce again.
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Post by TheHitmanKid on Dec 24, 2020 23:53:39 GMT -5
I dressed up like Santa one year. When my nephew came up to me; he was so nervous. To help him relax I said is your name "Georgie", like in the movie IT (that was his favorite movie at the time). He walked back to his seat and told his dad he knew that I was really under that costume.
He stopped believing in Santa that day...😔
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