Sorry for yet another thread about Christmas presents, but hell, this is my first Christmas-as-a-Doper and I wanna make the most of it.
So, I have this friend. She’s a good friend. In fact, she is my oldest friend - I’ve now known her for thirteen years and am wondering where the hell the time went. Naturally, I want to get her a Christmas present. Something thoughtful, something she’ll like. The problem, the eternal problem, is that I don’t have much money and I do have a lot of people to buy for. However, I’ve decided you don’t need to have lots of money to be thoughtful, and so have been racking my brains for days in an attempt to be thoughtful with a budget of six pounds.
My friend (her name is Clare) is a great fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and got me started reading the books a couple of months ago. For our Hallowe’en party, she dressed up as Death. For her birthday two weeks ago, I gave her two of the books and a five-foot-long plastic scythe. Not the sort of thing you can give twice.
This morning, it came to me. On Monday, I’m not going to school. I’m going into town to get myself a medium-sized coffee jar. Once I’ve got that, I’m going to go in search of jelly beans, the nice Jelly Belly ones that you can’t get anywhere, and if and when I find them, I’m going to buy about five pounds’ worth of margharita (sp?) and lime ones. When I get home, I’ll tip the coffee out of the jar into the big, American-sized coffee jar we have at home. Then I’ll wash out the smaller jar, pull the labels off it, fill it with the jelly beans and stick on some new labels.
“Dried Frog Pills.
To be taken once a day; or when the world gets too much.”
I have a feeling it may just appeal to Clare’s sense of humour.
So I had to share. And take a moment to thank Lynn Bodoni for the idea.
To make the thread more interactive - has anyone else come up with the perfect gift this year? The gift he/she is just going to love?
