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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[edenssixthday]

Ha ha! That's GREAT! I love getting totally bizarro gifts like that. So random and something you know NO ONE else would get you!

[puzzledance]

I don't think anyone else would get something like that for us, but I can definitely see him giving the same thing to somebody else! He's given temperature-sensing electronic meat carving forks to at least two people in the family as Christmas gifts, on two separate occasions.

[rshreel]

It sounds like your extended family is a hoot! And there is always one gift that people are still talking about a year later. I have no doubt you will really remember the "stylish gift". Just as I remember the satin robe that my sister gave me last year. When I opened it, the first thing out of my brother's mouth was "it looks like a rainbow trout". It is still called the Rainbow trout robe and my sister and I still laugh about it. Hope you had a great holiday!

[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

[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.