Weirdest or worst present goes to……

[Wattie]

At the risk of sounding ungrateful -it’s because I am.
I was given an ashtray with seahorses on it!!! Can someone remind me when I took up smoking please?


I wish I was smoking whatever they were on when they bought it!!

Anyway, can anyone top that and can I have your address please @Bebs as I have a surprise gift for you.

 

[happydaze]

That's an extremely rare caviar serving bowl. Someone thinks highly of you.

How do you feel now?

Edit: Just kidding! (In case anyone thinks I was fair dinkum... )

 

[BL330]

Use it as a coin tray

 

[Wattie]

That's an extremely rare caviar serving bowl. Someone thinks highly of you.

How do you feel now?

Bit gutted they didn’t include the caviar!

 

[2b1ask1]

As a child, I recall one year an older couple who used to come to our house only on Christmas Day but every year, they were childless and she had been an opera singer, him a well heeled chap., they gave my father a large bottle of aftershave… he was probably 50 at the time but had had a full beard since he was de-mobbed at 24.

 

[DLax69]

When I was ten, my paternal grandmother got me a full set of matching luggage. Because that's what every ten year old wants.

It's why I use grocery bags now (see other thread).

But that's still better than the year I was seven, and heard a bunch of noise in the middle of the night. Wondering what was going on, I stole down the hallway and found my father, cigarette in mouth, beer in hand, struggling to assemble a bicycle. He looked at me, and without taking the cigarette out from his lips, said, "that's right, there's no f'ing Santa Claus...hand me that wrench by your foot..."

 

[Wattie]

When I was ten, my paternal grandmother got me a full set of matching luggage. Because that's what every ten year old wants.

It's why I use grocery bags now (see other thread).

But that's still better than the year I was seven, and heard a bunch of noise in the middle of the night. Wondering what was going on, I stole down the hallway and found my father, cigarette in mouth, beer in hand, struggling to assemble a bicycle. He looked at me, and without taking the cigarette out from his lips, said, "that's right, there's no f'ing Santa Claus...hand me that wrench by your foot..."

Winning….so far!
Certainly gets the “Harsh Realities of Life” Award for 2022!

 

[philw696]

Use it as a coin tray

Bitcoin ?

 

[D Walker]

Use it for Olives !!

 

[mjheathcote]

On the ashtray theme, remember my Auntie buying my Mum an ashtray stand. She has never smoked. That was in the 70's.

 

[Wattie]

Use it for Olives !!

Olives what?

 

[Oneball]

At the risk of sounding ungrateful -it’s because I am.
I was given an ashtray with seahorses on it!!! Can someone remind me when I took up smoking please?
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I wish I was smoking whatever they were on when they bought it!!

Anyway, can anyone top that and can I have your address please @Bebs as I have a surprise gift for you.

There’s no where to put your f@g.

It’s a wine coaster.

 

[Wattie]

There’s no where to put your f@g.

It’s a wine coaster.

As I don’t smoke that’s a given.
What’s a wine coaster?

 

[Oneball]

As I don’t smoke that’s a given.
What’s a wine coaster?

Where you put a wine bottle to stop it damaging the table. Like a drinks coaster.

 

[Wattie]

Where you put a wine bottle to stop it damaging the table. Like a drinks coaster.

Oh, I thought that was covered by a decanter.
Clearly the budget didn’t extend that far.

 

[Oneball]

 

[Wattie]

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Hideous.
“Beautiful” it certainly isn’t.
False advertising.
I’m almost relieved I wasn’t given a Seahorse design decanter.
Anyone like it?
pm me and I’ll stick it in the post…..,Bebs has first shout……ashtray useage!

 

[Oneball]

Could be worse could have been rubber egg cups from the ex-cousins. Which I was then forced to take to Debenhams in Merry Hill on Boxing Day. 3 hours to navigate the car park and we can’t return them as they’re so old they’re no longer on the computer system.

 

[HenrysDad]

I once received a pair of red silk boxer shorts with a sprig of mistletoe tied to the waist at the front. So far so good, except that they were from my wife's sister! The Mrs is still cross 20 yrs later.

 

[Oneball]

I once received a pair of red silk boxer shorts with a sprig of mistletoe tied to the waist at the front. So far so good, except that they were from my wife's sister! The Mrs is still cross 20 yrs later.

The father in the family I mentioned above later married his wife’s sister.