so, there's just some people you just can't please....

Just a minor rant, but needed to get this out in the open somewhere....

I've a friend of mine, we've known each other for half our lives, and as nice as she is, she's absolutely the worst person to give gifts to. It took me a while to realize to just give up and not bother shopping for her any more. (These sorts of things take me a while!)

We would exchange gifts at christmas and at birthdays (our birthdays are 3 days apart). So, one year I thought it'd be nice to give her a gift basket from the Body Shop (my favourite store), and she returned it for the cash, because she said that when you give someone soap, it's considered insulting because you're telling them they smell.

Other gifts included handknit items (according to her, are cheap), gift certificates (how could I be so impersonal, it's like giving cash!), a day at the spa (falls under the category of insulting her because she thinks I think she smells, wtf?) and other items... so, I've given up.

Why is it so hard for someone to just accept a gift and appreciate the fact that one was given to them? Sheesh!

 

This Christmas give her the following:


(1) A knife
(2) A bottle of pills
(3) A box of rat poison
(4) A pamplet on funerals
(5) Life Insurance plan
(6) Give a list of names Jimmy Hendrix, Freddy Prince Sr, Kurt....

Maybe she will tell you want you want to hear from her....

 

ya should become a jehova witness,, that would solve yer problem..

 

Regift....give her something she gave you as a gift.

 

Whatever happened to accepting gifts and saying thank you? Does she volunteer the info of what she does with the gifts?

 

you're not suggesting that I'd want her to die? That's a bit morbid... That's not what I meant at all, it's just frustrating when someone can't even show a fiber of appreciation, that's all.... she's very offended by all sorts of things for some reason!

Yikes, like that would happen... That just might start up a whole new slew of problems on my end... I dont' think I can ethically do that!

I know! That's just what I'm saying... there are just some people - no matter what the thought behind the gift was (even if it's just the thought of actually getting one) can at all appreciate it... oh well, I've learned my lesson, no more for her!

 

Next gift could be a donation to an animal rescue/shelter in her name. How could anyone dis that?

 

tell her to eat shit. seriously, if someone dissed any gift I gave them, I'd tell them to eat shit. and they certainly would never get anything else from me.

 

A book entitled "How To Be Grateful"

 

All these answers have been wrong except for the one that hinted at suicide, and that one was only correct by mistake. You should given her something that is offensive, and unmistakebaly so. That way when she gets offended by it the reaction will make sense, I suggest either this


Or a T-shirt with this on it

 

we do a name drawing for my brothers and the inlaws..... when I get one of the girls, I never know what to get them, so I give them a gift basket with some soaps...... my brothers wife said "are you telling me I stink?" but I think she was just kidding....

 

maybe she just needed the cash and was making excuses?

 

Yeah but with you there is a good chance that would be the idea behind the gift in the first place!

 

very good point.

 

Just give her love...

 

no one ever appreciates that

 

You guys are way too fucking nice for the most part. Trick her into killing herself.

 

I'm sure she'd find something wrong with it!

a good idea...

I've thought of doing that... but then again, despite her unapprecation of gifts, we still are friends... this really is my only pet peeve.

wow, now that, I'm sure, would go over wonderfully!

 

She sounds liek a selfish bitch. Get her a Dr Korvorkean gift Certficate.

 

Ahhh like a Chris Cringle thing? That's kool and my ex wifes family did that and it was fun.