Comments | runaway_tales: Chip 'n Dip

nathskywalker in runaway_tales

Chip 'n Dip

Mar 04, 2011 00:47

Author: Nathalia
Rating: PG
Challenge: Flavor of the Day #243 - gimcrack (a showy but useless or worthless object; tastelessly, showy, cheap, gawdy)
Extras / Toppings: malt (Thanksgiving: Matthew: accident in the kitchen)
Word Count: 479
Story: Misfits
Summary: Janna and Jack get the best housewarming gift ever.
Notes: Here’s a picture of the housewarming ( Read more... )

[author] nathalia, [extra] malt, [challenge] flavor of the day

Comments 12

ichthusfish March 4 2011, 00:27:09 UTC

LMAO! The only other use might have been booby prize in a charity acution. It could have done the rounds. Very funny :)

nathskywalker March 4 2011, 17:14:30 UTC

but nobody wants such a thing. It would be handed over for years without anybody who got it being happy about getting it.

And you encouraged me to do this, so thanks :)

roisin_farrell March 4 2011, 00:43:38 UTC

My aunt had something very, very similar to the picture. She got it as a wedding present (she was married in the late 60s) and as far as I can recall, it never got used. Hmmm, I wonder why.

I like Janna's answer to the problem.

nathskywalker March 4 2011, 17:09:32 UTC

I grew acquainted to that thing watching Mad Men and as I said, I stole it from there. Mad Men is also set in the 60s and one of the main characters gets two of these for his wedding and was sent by his wife to return it. There was this whole scene where the co-workers were making fun of the Chip 'n Dip and he was trying to explain that it was very useful but you could tell that he didn't want one of those, let alone two.

hi_falootin March 4 2011, 07:05:14 UTC

“We are supposed to set this up on the coffee table in the living room with chips and a dip in the tomato and let everyone who comes by make fun of us?”

Lol! Who wouldn't want one of those??

(At least it's not corpse soap, right?)

nathskywalker March 4 2011, 17:13:34 UTC

Corpse soap is so incredibly useful compared to this gem ;)
Eventually, it's all gone if enough people wash their hands.

ninablues March 4 2011, 09:49:52 UTC

LOL, that is one of those things people only ever buy as a present, never for themselves.

Come on, Janna, you could have given it to a charity shop! I'm sure there would have been... someone out there with a home for it. XDD Actually, her resolution probably saved someone else a lot of pain.

nathskywalker March 4 2011, 17:11:45 UTC

I think Janna's approach is the only right one. Or she could have regifted it to someone she really dislikes or kept it somewhere in the kitchen without it ever being used but what's the point of that anyway? Let her be extreme and crazy for once.

And that's one of the things I never understand. People who buy horrible useless things for other people that they would never want themselves. What goes through these people's heads? It probably even takes an effort to find things as horrible as this one!

kaitygirl88 March 4 2011, 22:01:40 UTC

I would have guessed that monstrosity was going to be an eternal regifting present, but Janna is so much more efficient! This was hilarious, and I quite like Ganner for having such wonderfully horrible taste. XD

nathskywalker March 6 2011, 17:47:15 UTC

The best part about this is that even Jack hates it and he has a horrible, horrible taste in clothing and pretty much everything else. I wanted Jack to bring it when he moved in and Janna be all disturbed by it but then, Ganner worked even better just so I could sneak a mention of him in. I sort of wrote him out of the story and sent him to Alaska after high school.