‘What’s the last thing someone gave you that you had to pretend to be grateful for?’ – 21 people who were forced to put in an Oscar-worthy performance
12.
‘A car! A car I explicitly said I didn’t want, and wouldn’t fit anywhere, and was grossly impractical for me. Two months later, it’s mine. I think I’m gonna sell it and get something smaller and more economical, SUVs absolutely fucking suck.’
–AChurchForAHelmet
13.
‘I had a hoarder friend who would give me bags of crap (not literal crap, just random stuff) and I would take it and bin it when I got home. Last one was a Safeway shopping bag full of soy sauce packets. I use soy sauce a lot but there’s only so many little packets you can store in a kitchen. I kept enough to fill a soup bowl and tossed the rest.’
–Auzurabla
14.
‘A microwave mug cake recipe book and mug. I don’t have a microwave and don’t really like cake or sweet things in general.’
–Monkeylovesfood
15.
‘My partner bought me an iron for Xmas, and he bought his mother one as well. We were both like, wtf?’
–Away-Ad4393
16.
‘My mum sent me a box of chanterelle mushrooms she’d foraged in the woods near our house. Pretty great gift, given how expensive those things are. Unfortunately, she didn’t de-bug them properly. By the time the package arrived at my door, it stank, and when I opened it I found that what used to be a box of mushrooms was now a box of maggots.’
–MoonmoonMamman
17.
‘Usually at Christmas I’ll get chocolate from some vaguely distant relative. I’m lactose intolerant, so if I eat the chocolate I’m painting the bathroom with it in an hour.’
–quackers987
18.
‘My aunt the minster regifted my atheist husband a used religious book someone had given her. Then she tried to make it seem like a good gift by going on about how he had always reminded her of Ruth from the Bible, whom the book was about. Sorry, it’s still a shite gift.’
–stiletto929
19.
‘My best friend told me she bought me some earrings on her recent trip. When she gave them to me I realised they were the same earrings I had gifted her a few years ago… with the same packaging and everything.’
–Jessieroo3
20.
‘A solar, light-up wind chime. I despise wind chimes with the fire of a thousand suns and think that the people who buy them are c****.’
–Prestigious-Slide-73
21.
‘Lindt chocolate and wine every Christmas. I’m a sober vegan.’
–Ok-Distance-5344