What is the worst...... - Page 2

Gayle · 22-12-2008, 20:55

My Nanna used to make a point of buying every person in the family the exact same amount of money - to the penny!

This meant that she would go out and buy a present then spend the rest of the alloted money on slightly odd presents to make up the money.

One year i got given a pack of 10 disposable shower caps, but because that would have topped me over the alloted money, the present of 10 disposable shower caps was a shared present with my mum!

Benipete · 22-12-2008, 21:13

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Originally Posted by jaysay

There aren't really any bad presents, but I can remember one, my former mother-in-law once bought me a packet of cigars, just 3 months after I had sent 6 weeks in the chest unit in Bury General and two years after I quiting smoking

You can take it that my ex mother-in-law and I didn't really get on

Was she called Martha?
Could have been sending a message.

katex · 22-12-2008, 22:58

Well Gayle, did hear Martin Lewis speaking recently about 'Not cancelling Christmas' due to the credit crunch, advising you to allocate a certain amount to presents and not to go beyond this.

So think your Gran could well have been his personal assistant in another life ..

jaysay · 23-12-2008, 10:56

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Originally Posted by Gordie

I feel sorry for your poor mother in law. She would have been better off buying you a pipe.What a waste of good cigars

Do you always have to be such an obnoxious little prat

jaysay · 23-12-2008, 10:58

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Originally Posted by Benipete

Was she called Martha?
Could have been sending a message.

Don't know Beni, but she certainly got a message from me, just two words and the second one was off

shillelagh · 26-12-2008, 00:50

Another one was last year i stopped drinking - my birthday 4 weeks later .. received a bottle of baileys, wasnt bothered cos was only on antibiotics then when the course finished i could drink it. Then docs changed my tablets at the hospital - alcohol a strict no no - so gave it to someone to stick in a raffle, then christmas last year received a bottle of baileys, saved that for the next raffle, my birthday in july received another bottle, that went in a raffle ..... i didnt get one for christmas this year!!!