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Funny or weird christmas presents story thread.

adamtheaddick
adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
edited December 2011 in General Charlton
A few years ago now, i think my old man surpassed himself on the wonderfull present he bought my mother. He hadnt told anyone what he had bought for her then come christmas morning in the living room is the biggest box you have ever seen.. 6 foot tall 3 foot wide wrapped and with a bow on it, what could it be we all cried, maybe one of my mums sisters from australia hiding in the box to pop out and say happy christmas? the new power shower she had been hinting at.... sadly no.. it was a cast iron step ladder.. he was smiling from ear to ear expecting a wondeful response, he was met with "what the f am i supposed to do with this.." he then went on and explained the numerous times over the year she had stood on a chair to reach things or mentioned how she couldnt dust in the corners of the room.. the tension was awful. 
this however is not the end of the saga, with family due round for dinner we had to setup the dinner table in the living room as more space, dad was busy helping me setup some lazer tag game i had been given, mum struggling carrying the ladder up to there bedroom, were down stairs, 2 mins later big thud then screaming.. mum had leaned the ladder against there bedroom wardrobe went to the loo came back in the room forgot about the ladder opend the wardbrobe and took the full weight of the ladder on her head, claret everywhere.. a brief dash to greenwich hospital a few stiches later we sat around the table having lunch.. We now look back and laugh about it, dad learnt his lesson and now asks us to help him with ma's present and whenever someone gets a naff present its met by the phase "still,, could have been a step ladder from dad"

anyone else got any funny present stories to share?

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  • Wilma
    Wilma Posts: 1,618
    Once got a peg bag and a packet of pegs from my Dad's wife, she didn't like the fact that I left my pegs on the washing line as they got dirty and left marks on the clothes! Still get ribbed about it at Christmas now. Another year she gave me a tin of de-icer and a scraper for the car. Got loads of comments about that but still using the excellent scraper years later :-)
  • BowieAddick
    BowieAddick Posts: 1,192
    My mum once bought me and my husband a blank video tape for Christmas!! Serves me right for spending it with my dad and his new wife I suppose!
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    My mum got me a bag of essentials last year which included a can if beans, not even hienz, smart price beans.
    She waited a month or so for a thanks call.

  • daveaddick
    daveaddick Posts: 1,926
    My mum bought me a deep fat fryer...wierd!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,292
    My wife's aunt always gave appalling prezzies.  The worst I got was a stack of old gardening magazines that all had little drawings like they were from the sixties, rusty staples and smelt like they'd been in someone's garden shed for 30 years.  I don't even like gardening.

    Every year she would say, "it's the thought that counts" to which I would inaudibly mumble that the thought was never to spend any money.    
  • Phantom_User
    Phantom_User Posts: 655

    A big bag of rice, from my uncle, every year, without fail !

    Thanks, Uncle Ben

  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,964
    Last year I bought my wife an hour in the Tarantula house at Broxburn Zoo to face her fear of spiders . To her credit she held one.
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    My mum once bought me and my husband a blank video tape for Christmas!!
    My mum always bought us blank video tapes, just so we didn't record over her stuff!
  • BowieAddick
    BowieAddick Posts: 1,192
    Yes but that was all she bought us and it wasn't a 240 is was only a 120, I am not bitter!
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,192
    Last year I bought my wife an hour in the Tarantula house at Broxburn Zoo to face her fear of spiders . To her credit she held one.
    You bought your wife an hour of torture for xmas!!!!

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  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,919

    My Gran used to buy all her presents from a shop in Welling called All Saves. This should give you an idea of the quality of the presents we all used to receive for Christmas.

    My all-time favourite was an Airfix kit of the QE2 which had obviously left in the sun in a shop window somewhere too long. The result was a ship that looked more like a snake's forked tongue because that sun had caused the halves of the hull to bend.  

     

  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,298

    Bloke I work with always buys brilliant presents for his wife - I have no idea what she makes of them but he is still alive !!.

    This year he has bought her an ironing bord cover (from sainsburys) which has instructions on how to iron a shirt properly !

    The other year he got her a chocolate orange - not a Terry's one but home-made .......an orange covered in melted chocolate..

  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,111
    When I was 15 (so 9 years ago) my aunt got me a VHS copy of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
    Every teenagers dream that.
  • SE10
    SE10 Posts: 2,169
    Full Millwall kit when I was about 12
  • arthur
    arthur Posts: 246
    I sold this Makita chordless power drill in the local paper, and then 6 months later I received the very same one back as a Christmas present from my brother in law....... minus the power pack...........
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    I sold this Makita chordless power drill in the local paper, and then 6 months later I received the very same one back as a Christmas present from my brother in law....... minus the power pack...........
    is that from alan partridge?
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,233

    A mate when he was 18 got a pair of mittens and a Cub Scout annual from his Gran.  He could, but only just, get the mittens over two of his fingers.

  • arthur
    arthur Posts: 246


    is that from alan partridge?
    yea!! Alan's Funny Stories!  My favourite Partridge moment because the caller hangs up so fast he has to fill 20 seconds with laughing before he can go to the news at 12.00 sharp!
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 27,148

    After the year that my Mum took it into her head to buy both my sister and me and iron for Christmas we now have a much more civilised arrangement where we use Amazon wishlists, ask the person concerned's spouse or buy for ourselves if it's clothes. Much better - less stress shopping, no disappointment on Christmas day, and no faffing about having to return stuff that doesn't fit.

    My favourite daft christmas shopping story relates to one of my Grandad's sisters, who sent her husband out "to buy the Christmas bird" expecting him to come back with a turkey for Christmas dinner. He rolls in at 8:30 on Christmas Eve with a mynah bird that he bought off some bloke in a pub.

  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    ...I wonder who got the power pack?!


    ...news.

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  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,192

    A few years ago my mums husbands ex wife got me a gift. A DVD, Iraq's road to the world cup, presented and narrated by Nick Hancock. About 10 years old this DVD at the time.

     

    Still in the cellophane wrapper!

  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    edited December 2013
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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,562
    Arthur,
    Mikita drills are awesome don't blame you for selling that Makita knock off.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,562
    Boo just seen Alan p comment

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