MY WORST CHRISTMAS PRESENT

(November, 2021) Reddit asked readers what their worst Christmas present was. Some of the responses:
– “A dish towel. I was 8 years old.”
– Looking back, it wasn’t a bad present, but when I was six I got a pair of pants, and I started crying a screamed “You’re supposed to get me these anyway.”
– “Grandma got me a dollar store electric toothbrush. It didn’t even turn on.”
– “Grandma once gave me cologne from the Dollar Store when I was 8 or 9. And she wasn’t poor, she had a lovely house and a high-income job.”
* “My parents worked for months putting together a super awesome art kit. Except that every time they would go upstairs to add to it, they would say, “We’re going upstairs to feed your present,” or “We need to take your present for a walk.” So on Christmas day I was devastated that I didn’t get a puppy, instead of stoked that I got an awesome art kit.”
– “My mom is notorious for bad presents. I’ve had toothpaste, and vitamin pills wrapped up for Christmas. One year it was a car crash kit – a disposable camera for recording the scene, a form for both parties to fill out, a tape for measuring, and some chalk for marking where the dead bodies were or something.”
– I asked for a Tomagochi. My sisters both got one, and I got a new jacket. My dad told me that I was too old for Santa and needed to learn that life isn’t fair. I was 8, my sisters were 7 and 5. From that point on, I only ever received clothing.”
– “I gave my husband a Tag Heuer watch, he gave me a $19.99 Walmart blender. We already had three blenders.”
– “My brother would get something pretty expensive, like a foosball table or air hockey table, and I would get a couple of books and lipgloss. Mom would look at the pile my brother got and the few gifts I got, and she’d say “I must have misplaced all the other gifts.” But never once did she find those misplaced gifts. I was clearly not the favored child.”
– “When I was 10, my grandparents gave me an unwrapped suitcase. Inside were wrapped presents for my sisters.”
– “I bought my whole family tickets to see James Brown live. Literally within minutes of them opening their presents it was announced on the news Christmas morning that James Brown had died.”
* Grandparents seem to be a recurring theme here.
* Why even bother sitting on Santa’s lap any more? He’s not listening.
* At my house, we always referred to Christmas as “character-building day.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What’s your worst Christmas present?