Christmas Prezzy Brown

simple_salmon

What's the worst present you've ever received?

Last year my wife was given a wrapped up box of tissues from a colleague; and they weren't even scented :shock:

Matt the Tester

lol i dread to think tbh but when i was 10 years old my auntie gave me shoes 6 sizes too big! and then she said " there something you can grow into" lol size 14 shoes i think and im 19 now and im 10/11!

mingmong

The the late 70's I wanted



but ended up with something akin to

:oops:

Chip \'oyler

My brother in law got a four cans of Stella (wrapped up too) off an auntie!

Chunkers1980

Chip \'oyler wrote:

My brother in law got a four cans of Stella (wrapped up too) off an auntie!

Sounds great to me. Better than a pair of crappy socks.

Anonymous

I once got some Secatuers from my in-laws. I was 24 at the time and lived in a flat with no garden.

Crapaud

Chip \'oyler wrote:

My brother in law got a four cans of Stella (wrapped up too) off an auntie!

I got 2 cans of Beamish in the work's secret santa, but I don't drink.

Managed to swap them for a fart pot , though, thereby making it the best present ever.

Frank the tank

I once got a black eye and a pair of broken glasses after being lamped one in a case of mistaken identity outside a nightclub in the very early hours of christmas day. My attacker thought I was my brother.

Thing is my head was clear as a bell in the morning, but I think that was due to the 10mile walk home.

squired

My grandparents on my Dad's side gave my brother and I a single shiny £1 coin each. They told us they couldn't afford any more as they were pensioners. Of course they went to bingo and spent far more than that each night.... I don't recall whether they said, "Don't spend it all at once".

Bikerbaboon

once got a toy train given away free with cornflakes from my gandparents.

finchy

Knowing I'm a cyclist, my auntie bought me a route book of "cycling adventures".

OK, doesn't sound too bad until you look into the book and the longest, most adventurous route is 14 miles over flat ground, although there is a 20 metre climb (listed under the difficulties section).

The authors recommended 3 and a half hours to do the ride in. :roll:

Frank the tank

johnfinch wrote:

Knowing I'm a cyclist, my auntie bought me a route book of "cycling adventures".

OK, doesn't sound too bad until you look into the book and the longest, most adventurous route is 14 miles over flat ground, although there is a 20 metre climb (listed under the difficulties section).

The authors recommended 3 and a half hours to do the ride in. :roll:

I take it that's blindfolded.

finchy

Frank the tank wrote:

johnfinch wrote:

Knowing I'm a cyclist, my auntie bought me a route book of "cycling adventures".

OK, doesn't sound too bad until you look into the book and the longest, most adventurous route is 14 miles over flat ground, although there is a 20 metre climb (listed under the difficulties section).

The authors recommended 3 and a half hours to do the ride in. :roll:

I take it that's blindfolded.

Maybe I missed a part of the book that said that I have to blindfolded or pulling a wheelie for the whole ride or something like that. Certainly make it much more interesting

balthazar

MingMong wrote:

but ended up with something akin to

:oops:

Could've sold the Keith Haring one for $16,000 and bought a skate park...

simple_salmon

Bikerbaboon wrote:

once ogt a toy train geven away free with cornflakes from my gandparents.

My mother-in-law once 'wrapped' a present for me in the inner foil from a packet of cornflakes; now I'm all for recycling but this still had cornflake dust on it :?

petejuk

I think I was about 12 when I was given a paper mate ball point pen from an uncle. Harmless enough until, on closer inspection, was presented in a parker pen case. I soon found out that the pen was second hand and out of ink. added to this, my older brother actually got a brand new parker pen in its case.
I have had a complete dislike of this relative ever since.

andy_f

steady rider wrote:

lol i dread to think tbh but when i was 10 years old my auntie gave me shoes 6 sizes too big! and then she said " there something you can grow into" lol size 14 shoes i think and im 19 now and im 10/11!

If your only 19 then you have plenty of years left to grow into them.

Nuggs

ANDY F wrote:

steady rider wrote:

lol i dread to think tbh but when i was 10 years old my auntie gave me shoes 6 sizes too big! and then she said " there something you can grow into" lol size 14 shoes i think and im 19 now and im 10/11!

If your only 19 then you have plenty of years left to grow into them.

I'd stopped growing well before 19...

Airbornerodent

My brother gave me a bottle of Famous Grouse when I was 17. When I opened it, I looked up to see the disapproving look from my Dad. It was a seriously awkward moment, and then I opened it. It turned out it was cold tea.... The so and so had already drank the decent stuff and then re-filled the bottle!

That night there was a Christmas party at my brothers house, and one of my brother's mates said that he would down the entire bottle for a price. Obviously, everyone else thought it was the real stuff. £80 was put into the pot and off he went, faking a collapse against the radiator when he was 3/4 of the way through the bottle. It was one of the funniest things Ive ever seen, topped of with someone shouting out " Call an ambulance!!!" when he collapsed.

The following year someone did if for real. It wasn't pretty.....

disgruntledgoat

You've confused Grouse with "decent stuff" there airborne.

Our house has always been a bastion of inequality when it comes to presents, the last christmas we were all living under the same roof my brother got an 80gb I-Pod, I got a rucksack. Truly, twas crap.

Ollieda

Not mine but a few years ago when asking my auntie what my cousin would want for Christmas (he was 6 at the time) my auntie replied "He really wants a bread maker"

Obviously suspicious we inquired more and supposedly they had been shopping and he had seen one, auntie explained what it did and he said he wanted one. We played along and brought him one, on Christmas day he opens it looks at it then starts crying as he didn't want it, sure enough my auntie says "Oh well, no need to take it back, I'll just have it"

shouldbeinbed

My birthday is just before christmas, I got plenty of worst presents from people that gave me one present for both days.

I wouldn't have minded if it was a bigger and better present but it never was. Bro and Sis got equivalent but twice a year.

I blame my parents and whatever crap was on telly in March 1968.