When people get you a gift for you to do something

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Today my brother and his friend drove out here to Oregon to visit their friend in Oregon City, well my parents had a birthday gift for me and they had my brother bring it with him to give to me.

They came here around eight and gave me my birthday present and it was a bag with tools in it for me to fix the wall in the hallway. My boyfriend got up early one morning last year for work and he was still half asleep, so he tipped sideways and fell against the wall banging his elbow leaving a dent.

When I opened the gift and saw what it was, I laughed instead of getting upset because it really wasn't a gift for me to enjoy, it was for me to fix the dent in the wall.

Reminds me of a funny assignment I had in high school from our English teacher. One day she explains the assignment to us and we all had to get into groups and read the fake letters we got from our annoying relatives and make up a fake response to their letter. Our teacher basically wrote the fake letters herself and pasted them on a color sheet of paper, cut out the item out of a magazine and pasted it on the paper. One of the letters was about someone receiving a tool set just so when his annoying relative comes out to visit, he can fix his bike using the new tool set he got him. I can remember reading all the fake letters and they were all funny.


So has anyone every gotten a gift from someone but it was really so you can do something like someone buys you a tool set just so you can fix their bike?

I can understand why you would be upset. As for myself, I am very hard to shop for...to the point where family members tend to give me cash. I like getting gifts I can really use. I shows me the person was really thinking of me when shopping. I have heard of wives who complain about getting new apliances as gifts, but one of my favorite gifts was a vacuum. Not only was it needed but also a very nice one.

I didn't get upset, I laughed about it instead as I said in my post.

Oh. I thought you meant...you laughed rather than showing you were upset.

I would probably have laughed myself Did your relatives seem to appear a bit confused?

No. I said it wasn't really a gift because it was for me to fix the wall. What kind of gift is that?

I probably would've laughed myself.
I am rather tired of others putting their own spin on my thoughts and emotions arghhhhh....
We got a wedding gift from a relative of my husband's who is an antique store owner so I was anxious to see what had been sent. I enjoy that sort of thing and would consider my style almost ecletic. If I like it and my hubsband doesn't veto it I fit in our house somewhere.

Anyway I opened the gift and loved it right away. It was a reproduction of the turn of the 19th century. I did what I thought was a reasonable response in expressing how much I liked the gift. KNow what his family said immediately after? Something about "you don't like it?" I laugh now, but then I thought what the crap did I do wrong that they didn't understand that I loved the lamp:?

I once got some make-up. I took that as a hint that the person wanted me to start wearing make up. As if the reason I don't wear it is that I don't have any.

People give me practical gifts all the time. Last Christmas I didn't get a single enjoyable gift, I got a bunch of kitchen tools. Not that I didn't appreciate getting some new stuff for the kitchen, but it would have been nice to get at least something that I wanted or could have enjoyed.

When I was a kid my parents used my birthdays to buy things that I needed, like a new bed instead of my old one that had been broken for years. That was a fun birthday present for a 12 year old.

When my brother moved into his own place my sister gave him a gift to congratulate him on his new place. It was a coffee maker, so that he could make her coffee when she'd come by for visits (he doesn't drink coffee himself). A few times my brother also gave me some CDs that he wanted and then borrowed them and listened to them before I even got the chance to hear them myself.