I got a text message from my brother. It said he’s already bought me something for Christmas, and what else would I like? I sent a text back saying I didn’t know yet. But I got him something already too.
He texted me jokingly saying we’ve probably bought the same thing. And it isn’t a little green book by any chance?
Well, it is. We’ve both bought each other a copy of “Return of the Bunny Suicides”. :smack:
Any other dopers done anything like this?
So the Bunnys come back, to do it again? :dubious: j/k
Zombie bunnies!
I saw that book in a shop the other day. Most amusing.
I bought my ex a Walkman for Christmas 1994. I went to hide it under the bed. While I was doing this, I found a box hidden under the bed. A Walkman box. In which was my Christmas present from her…
There’s a SEQUEL? Oh frabjous day!
About 10 years ago my little brother and I gave each other the exact same Leatherman tool for Christmas.
My mother and I do this all the time - but not with gifts. We’ll buy or do something at the same time without even talking to each other.
Most recently, it was a bathing suit. The strange thing is that with me being 24 and her being 54, we really don’t have the same taste in clothes. We also have totally different body types so you wouldn’t think that we’d wear the same suit.
Neither of us had ever shopped in this particular store before, we live at opposite ends of the state, and we didn’t discuss anything first. Actually, that’s not true. We had decided that we both needed to buy a suit because we were going swimming at the same time. Without discussing style, color, or price, we bought the same suit on the same day, in the same chain store. We even found out later that we bought the suits within 10 minutes of each other. It was a bit embarrassing when we went swimming together a week later.
Is this ironic?
My mother and grandmother went to Sawgrass Mills, a gigantic mall in Florida, and split up.
When they got back together, they found they had bought the same nightgown.
My parents got my brother a DVD player for Christmas. My mom decided to get the same one for my dad. My brother wound up getting the exact same model for my parents. He lived at the other end of the state, and is much more of a technology guru than my parents, which makes it super weird.
Last Christmas my mother and I bought each other the same two books (I can’t remember the title, but by Ursula Le Guin, set in the same world as the earthsea trilogy). We had talked a couple of months ago about that we both wanted them but hadn’t got round to buying them, but still.
Excluding the OP, that’s 245 views, and 6 incidents. Does this really happen to one in forty people? That’s quite impressive.
Often we agree not to exchange gifts at all, but when we do my twin sister and I do this with amazing regularity. One year I bought her the book Les Miserables, and she bought me the soundtrack to the musical Les Miserables. Another year I made her a photo album with nothing but pictures of the two of us. She gave me a photo collage with nothing but pictures of the two of us, with many of the exact same photos in it that I had given her. It’s almost to the point where we are surprised when it doesn’t happen.