This is for the dude who runs into the mall on Christmas eve 30 min before the stores close and frantically buys the first thing he sees. I'd like to help you...
My brother is infamous in the family for his last minute Christmas shopping escapades. Though he's extremely smart and capable, he has never been able to conquer Christmas shopping and has on occasion, done a terrible job indeed.
One such occasion is now known in our family as simply, the "Safeway Incident". It was Christmas Eve at 4:45pm. All of the stores were closing at 5pm. We were at a family gathering when it suddenly dawned on my brother that he had yet to do any Christmas shopping. He quietly slipped out and drove to the nearest store. Any store would do, he thought as he pulled into the Safeway parking lot at 4:55pm. For those of you who don't have Safeway, that is a GROCERY STORE.
My brother thought he was very smart as he manically pushed the grocery cart around the store grabbing random cans of this, a bag of apples, a bag of that, trying to cover off everyone in his list before the store closed. Luckily they happened to have a few Christmas teddy bears on display so he grabbed a couple of those too.
Just in the nick of time, he had grocery store presents for everyone on his list. He was actually proud of himself.
We never let him live it down.
I've started a discussion of what not to buy her in our forums here. Please participate. Then make your man read it.
2 comments:
Haha...that's funny.
At least your brother went shopping. One year, my cousin just took fruits from the fruit basket, wrapped each fruit with flyers, newspaper or tin foil and gave it to us for presents. :P
atleast your brother made an extra attempt to buy something from the grocery shop...my dad got me a bright purple jacket belonging to the old sixties..hehe..and i had to wear it to show him that i love it..
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