I have a friend who literally every single time I went to his house on his coffee table in front of the living room couch was a Blu-ray copy of Ghostbusters 1&2, and it was constantly moving around the coffee table so it looked like it was being well watched.
So I got my friend for Christmas a Ghostbusters T-shirt and the 4K blu-ray version of the original film. He looked at the two things and flat out told me “I actually don’t like Ghostbusters that much” and I asked “Why is your Ghostbusters Blu-ray set constantly out then?” And he replied “My girlfriend gave it to me last Christmas and I’ve just been too lazy to put it on my shelf”
Reminds me of the year my mom gave me luggage. I thought at first I was getting a portable record player (this was late 60s/early 70s) and I admit, I was a bit of a brat about it. But it turned out that once I joined the Navy, that luggage came in handy - I used it till it fell apart!
Serious question: do you remember what kind of chin strap it was? I’m having an awful time finding one that will stay in place through the night when using my CPAP.
First Christmas after we got married, my MIL gave flannel nightgowns to me and her two daughters. My youngest SIL was 18, approximately 5’2" and on the thin side. All three of the nightgowns were too small for her.
I’ve never worn a nightgown, nor did did either of my SILs.
More recently, my MIL got a frozen cherry cheesecake for her son, because that’s what he likes. Nope, that’s not the same as cherry cheese pie, you know, the one that his grandmother made for every holiday and birthday while he was growning up.
I bought my brother a bottle of scotch for his 50th birthday. He drank Wild Turkey and I was trying to switch him. He looked at me and smiled and said " You just won’t give up will you". He still has the bottle of scotch, and it is worth about 10 grand right now.
– the second recipe actually gave me both metric and USA-type measurements. But either of them would need considerable modification to get something that wouldn’t be too sweet for me. Might play around with it sometime, though.
Yeah, that would have to be part of the “considerable modification”. As would not using the canned cherry pie filling. I can certainly get cherries without the sweetened sauce; but I don’t know if the recipe would even work with unsweetened canned milk.
Despite growing up in rural Pennsylvania never had any interest in sports, cars, camping, hunting, or fishing. As a kid I got alot of presents I didn’t want. But I was too polite/shy to say anything so I 'd pretend to be happy and then stuff it on my closet and never use it. My mother eventually figure full of stuff that I never took out of the box and didn’t care if she gave away. Cue several more years of discreetly asking for receipts after every birthday and Christmas so I could return my presents.
Growing up near Pittsburgh, one year I was shocked when Santa brought me a pretty powerful Crossman BB gun. My first thought was “no way I’m old enough to have a gun that shatters bottles”, but hey.
I was very careful with it. My dad would take me to a dump where we shot bottles. One time he brought a couple bottles of cheap beer. We shook them, then shot them. Very cool!
My mom knew I liked old cartoons. She didn’t know I didn’t like all old cartoons. So she gave me a dvd of (I don’t remember for sure) 100 cartoons, all from third rate studios. The worst thing was, after I actually watched some of it, I got the theme song for Little Lulu cartoons as a tenacious ear worm. I would wake up with the song playing. It was horrible. Thanks, Mom.
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