CHAT What's the weirdest gift you've ever got or gave someone?

mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
LOL, I think we left this in Rochester when we moved. Didn't mean to. I miss it.

Years ago, one of my sons friends lived upstairs from us. His room was a complete toilet. My son and I had just happened to stop by, and I said give me a garbage bag. Well, we filled up a LOT of garbage bags, and got the dump in some semblance of order. I saw this weird fuzzy big black jumpy spider with red eyes on a bulb string under one of the piles of trash. And he gave it to me. Had it for years. Sometimes I'd take it into where I was working. LOL. People used to want to steal it from me. Best toy I ever had.

:lol:
 
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Leela

Veteran Member
Years ago we found a whip at the Goodwill, the Bargain Barn in Santa Cruz. Like a cat o'nine. We gave it to our cousin's DH for his birthday as a joke. He gave it to his mother; he told us she mounted it above her bed, her husband was deceased at that point.
 
Walrus Whisperer

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
I remember that at a bday party for one of the grands, the kid got one of the pop pop things on a stick. Garaunteed to drive mom's crazy. She let me perform the surgery to eliminate the noise... :whistle:
 
bev

bev

Has No Life - Lives on TB
My MIL was a tightwad.

One Christmas, which might have been the first for my DH and me, she gave each of the three men in the family ONE pair of Fruit-of-the-Loom Briefs.

Yes, she bought a 3-pack and split them up. :D

One more -

One of DH’s co-workers knitted him a pair of wool socks for a Christmas exchange. She had previously asked what size shoes he wore, and he told her he wore a size 16.

The foot part of those socks measured - you guessed it - sixteen inches! :lol:
 
jward

jward

passin' thru
Hmm. I gave someone virtual breakfast in bed, accompanied by a goat, cat, and his younger self.
...I could see some finding that weird :shr: :jstr: ;)
 
Anti-Liberal

Anti-Liberal

Veteran Member
For Christmas I gave my cousin fake lottery tickets. She was in college and needed money. Well, THE WHOLE FAMILY fell for it. The roof almost came off the house and it was at that time I knew I had made a mistake. Finally, someone started to read the back of the ticket. The joke was OVER. The house was deathly quiet. For the rest of the day I had my back to a wall.
 
Tweakette

Tweakette

Irrelevant
My sister gave me a splitting maul for Christmas once. Apparently the guy at the hardware store where she bought it replied with "well you better hope she likes it " when she told him who it was for.

As for myself, I usually throw in a packet of foam earplugs with every baby shower gift LOL.
 
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Luddite

Veteran Member
I gave a set of chainsaw chaps to a lady I had just started dating. She showed me a big scar on her shin from a chainsaw. She had legs that went all the way to her shoulders. :) But, I digress.

I thought she would like them. Her face betrayed that she didn't. I was soon to find out that safety devices were for other people. A Nurse that Smoked. (nuff said?)

She once helped her dad swap a tranny out of a subaru on the side of an interstate.
I remember her and her sister making fun of me from her roof for not climbing onto it without a safety line. It was THAT steep. And I'm not a chicken.

I bet she gave those chaps away unused. I extricated myself from that mess after a few months.

FTR, I don't use chainsaw chaps now either. But I don't have scars on my shins,,, yet.
 
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