How do you handle this? (love, anniversary, sensitive, party)
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It's your birthday/anniversary/Christmas/retirement party etc. You unwrap a gift from someone very close to you and find something that you can't identify. You see the giver out of the corner of your eye - giddy with anticipation that you'll love it and you have no clue what it is and know you certainly don't need or want it.
I was the guilty party here once. My mom had mentioned that her steering wheel was so cold in the winter that it was really hard for her to drive with her arthritic hands. I found a fuzzy steering wheel cover and thought of her so took it out of the package, stuffed it in an envelope and sent it to her., I was certain it would be obvious what it was when she got it.
It wasn't.
Several weeks later, I called and asked if the steering wheel cover fit.
Long pause. Steering wheel cover? What steering wheel cover?
I mailed it to you a few weeks ago and hadn't heard anything - thought maybe it was the wrong size.
Long pause. You sent it to me when?
Mom, didn't you get a fuzzy red thing in an envelope from me?
Long pause. Fuzzy... red... Oh My Goodness! Whatis it?
It goes on your steering wheel so you aren't holding that cold and hard thing with your sensitive hands.
Oh my Gosh. I'll go try it right now.
Mom, what did you think it was?
I thought it was some newfangled earmuff. Didn't fit on my head at all and I didn't know what I would tell you about it!
It's your birthday/anniversary/Christmas/retirement party etc. You unwrap a gift from someone very close to you and find something that you can't identify. You see the giver out of the corner of your eye - giddy with anticipation that you'll love it and you have no clue what it is and know you certainly don't need or want it.
If you don't know what it is, how do you know with certainty that you don't need it or want it?
What was it? Did you ever find out? Unless it was a gift box of road apples, I'm not sure how any gift can be entirely useless. Even double leg amputees can use a gift of a pair of shoes as a nut cracker or hammer in a pinch.
What was it? Did you ever find out?
Is it something that can be regifted?
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