If you accept that you’re going to get a pointless gift you won’t ever use from this person, you can do a lot worse than pokemon cards.
We exchanged gifts with my girlfriend’s parents last night before more people arrived today. I opened my gift from them and it was the same thing we had given her dad as a gift for Christmas last year. It’s a fold up garment bag that zips into a small duffel that I already have and enjoy, in the exact same color we gave him (my other one is a different color). I looked very confused and her mom started explaining what it was. “I saw this on my morning shows and they said I should order it early so it gets here on time.” “I thought you could use it for short travel trips if you wanted to pack light.” Etc. I replied, “Oh it’s like what we gave him last year?” thinking maybe it is a slightly different version of the one I have and bought for him last year, and they acted like they didn’t hear me and kept talking over me. My girlfriend then tried to explain to me what it was and why I’d like it and I was extremely confused because she helped me pick the same gift out last year for her dad and knew I have my own. When we went to bed later that night, I asked my girlfriend if she found anything weird about the gifts and she said she didn’t know what I was talking about. I explained to her what happened and at first she didn’t believe it and said she was only trying to tell me how I’d use/enjoy the gift because my face made it look like I didn’t like it. I tried to explain why I was so baffled by the situation and laugh about it a couple more times and she got mad at me because she said she was embarrassed and I was trying to make her feel bad. Fml.
Going to cut my Christmas short this year. Found out my Uncle and Aunt have decided to not get the booster shot and my cousin’s kid is unvaccinated and has COVID right now. Heading over to my Grandma’s and meeting another Uncle, my dad and brother, then the three of us are heading out before the rest of the family gets there. Won’t be stepping foot in the other side of the family’s house for Christmas Eve dinner. This may be the best Christmas ever, if the mouth breathers on my Dad’s side don’t kill my Grandma.
Debated getting a turtle for this but have no idea what I would do with a turtle afterwards unless I can somehow rent one for 24 hours. Tampa tortoise is doing round 2 on Saturday.
You could have different rates for the different tortoises depending on their speed and hiding prowess
My uncle's family is very COVID conscious because he's older. Masks inside when it's just close family and we're all vaccinated. Did it last Christmas (before vaccine so whatever) and at some sort of party over the summer where I was asked to mask up inside so I just stayed outside the rest of the party. Their house, so hard to complain but it just seemed overboard for a group of vaccinated people. We are supposed to do Christmas Eve at my uncle's and he's currently in Florida and tested positive last night but is asymptomatic and wants to fly home and still have Christmas. So I guess we did all of this fake posturing over the summer to impress a few guests that were there and I guess I am free on Christmas eve now.
Update: entire family and my in laws assuredly have COVID. No major symptoms, thankfully. I got that sweet sweet Regeneron cocktail 2 days ago and symptoms are basically gone. Going to test today to see if I can test out and have a few beers with my side of the family today/tomorrow. I have been drinking Delta 8 seltzers daily and going for long walks, catching up on some reading, and watching movies. Now Since we all have it, no excuse for me to stay separated from in laws. Call me selfish but one more night of quarantine would have been cool.
Predictable ending is predictable. "You nailed it honey, I was laughing at a hilariously confusing situation solely to embarrass you and make you feel bad. I thought, hey, let's make this even more awkward by pissing off the person I sleep with."
i'll still laugh at it people can laugh at me for playing video games in my mid 30s idgaf that shit is funny
Need to get my dad something still and this delivers today. Thanks for contributing, user Lip! Have no idea what else to get him
Got all the in laws coming over tonight. The wife and I are fighting and her sister is an emotional wreck about whatever it is today that’s got her stirred up. They’re coming to our smaller house because no one else had the energy to clean their houses. I volunteered to cook a big breakfast dinner so I could hang out in the kitchen.
My Wife’s family has always done hibachi and a movie on Christmas which is cool to me. We haven’t gotten to do it because of Covid and newborn but this year we were definitely down to do it. Two weeks ago I tried to get him to make a reservation and pick a movie so we could buy tickets. They still haven’t don’t either. Now with Covid spiking it’s probably a good thing, but last time we did this we waited for like 2 hours for hibachi and couldn’t sit next to each other at the movie. licorice pizza was my suggestion but my SiL says it’s a old person movie and looks boring AF. on the bright side we always play board games on Christmas Eve and I got explosding kittens and telestrations
she is 21 and think she knows it all. Remember this is the same girl that started crying Bc her sister messed up her Tik Tok on thanksgiving.
My immediate response would have been, "let me look for a kid's movie that's more interesting for you".
to be fair she thought my 2 year was going to come. I’m not sure what’s worse her thinking a 2 year old who just had a sensory overload would sit still at a movie or calling licorice pizza boring AF
I told him he was an idiot and could and should get sued. Like I mentioned previously, fake posturing.
My parents got me a few power tools and woodworking items for Christmas. All were requests by me. I just arrived home for Christmas and there’s a corner of the room with some big ass boxes. Apparently my mom thought it was a great idea to have all the presents delivered here and now I either have to pay a bunch of money to ship them to Chicago or just return them to Home Depot and re-purchase them with free shipping. Apparently my mom and dad had a big argument about how stupid it was to not just get me a card with a picture of the gifts on the website. My mom won.
You should probably crosspost this in the "stupid shit your wife and girlfriend does" thread on behalf of your dad.