Stylish Gift

[puzzledance]

Every year for Christmas we get together with sweetie's relatives. We exchange gifts with all of sweetie's aunts and uncles. You can always count on Uncle Bob to give you something totally unexpected. This year, we received from him a Stylish Gift

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[puzzledance]

Well, they can be interesting, that's for sure. The thing about this particular uncle is that he has absolutely no sense of what makes a good or tasteful gift for anyone. This leads to a great deal of randomness. Sometimes his choices are excellent, and other times you just have no idea what went through his mind when he picked it out.

His most inappropriate gift this year was a board game called 1000 Places to See Before You Die, given to his sister-in-law who just had surgery last week, and is still awaiting test results from her oncologist. There was kind of a shocked silence after she opened her gift, and then she said, "Uh, good thing I have a good sense of humor." Her teenage daughter quickly hid the gift on the other side of the sofa. He did not seem to have any idea that there was any problem with his having given a game with that name to his sister-in-law.

His most appreciated gift was a set of DVDs of The Daily Show, given to his brother. The DVDs were promptly appropriated by his niece, the one who had hidden the game. She practically snatched it out of her father's hands, she was so eager to have it.

Truly, you never know what to expect from him.

[rshreel]

oh my gosh....he obviously doesn't think. His poor sister-in-law....sheesh. Well, I hope she has a good prognosis and one can hope the uncle looks at the big picture next year.