Today’s rant: Gifts
There is a certain etiquette that has to be followed while opening a gift from someone. This makes gift recieving a much more difficult job than it should be. Just once I would like to open a gift without wondering if I’m going to spew out something like, “Wow! That is one ugly shirt! What’d you do make it yourself? Did you use the lint from the dryer as yarn? Holy cow! This is a joke right? Where’s the real present? Is it under the lint shirt? Come on, seriously.” Then grandma’s crying and you’re not invited to your birthday party next year. I think a prerequisite for any gift should be a spoken list of specifics by the giver, right before the person is about to open the gift. “You are about to open a gift of clothing. This clothing is a shirt, yellow and brown with green splotches. It is the first thing I grabbed at the store on the way here, when your mother reminded me it was your birthday. The gift receipt is in the box, under the ugly shirt, and I got it on sale at Wal-Mart, so don’t even bother to take it back; just use it as a rag. You may proceed to open your gift now.” I think this would solve a lot of stress issues.
That’s my rant feel free to add your own.
There is one word that usually makes me feel better no matter how bad a gift seems when I open it — re-gift!