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Old 01-10-2005, 04:19 PM   #1
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I went over to my grandmother's house yesterday, to help her out with cleaning. She was recently in a car accident and broke her heel bone in half, so she's not too mobile right now-- and this is on top of some other health problems she's experiencing. Anyway, while I was there, she said something that made my blood run cold: "Your Christmas present finally arrived. Do you want to try it on?" On Christmas day she had given me $20 in a card that said my gift hadn't arrived in time, so here's some cash instead. (I think she gave my brother and my two cousins, both boys, $20 gift certificates to Best Buy or something.)

Background information: I love my grandmother dearly, but she has always been a... difficult person. For my entire life, at family gatherings of whatever nature, she has ordered me to wait on everyone in our family hand and foot-- whether or not it was appropriate for me to do so at the time. Like, for example, if we were at someone else's house. Sigh. She did it at Thanksgiving at my uncle's house and Christmas at my mom's house, when I was already running ragged from helping out. I swear to god, the woman pulled me away from homework once to make sandwiches for my brother, cousins and an entourage of assorted friends. About 8 people, all of whom would much rather have made their own damn sandwiches. She never asked anyone else to help with anything, ever-- even my cousins, normally complete shits, would remark on how much she seemed to think I was the Family Slave.

About 3 years ago, she gave me what *would* have been a very sweet present if it hadn't been so hideous or if it wasn't for the fact that she gave EVERYONE ELSE really cool polar fleece vests. It was a night shirt with a picture of two horse heads on it-- entirely appropriate for someone the age of, oh, let's say 8. And lest I sound ungrateful, I did appreciate the thought: she wanted to give me something a little more personal than what she gave the boys and my cousin's wife.

Now I'm sure you can imagine my mounting terror... she points to a shirt that I had mistaken for one of her own, an old-lady sweat shirt with a white scalloped-edge polo-shirt style collar on it. You know what I'm talking about? The reeeaaallly ugly old lady sweatshirts with a floral design or something like that on the front, and a hideous collar to boot? Something you would have seen on one of The Golden Girls? It was pink. It had pink flowers across the chest. And it was awful. So she says "Do you want to try it on, and if it fits take it and just give me the $20 back?"

I am damned good at schooling my features to not show any reaction, but THANK GOD that my poor granny's eyesight is not what it once was because I'm sure I did not do a very good job. I mumbled something and skedaddled out of the room to get the hell back to scrubbing the kitchen, but I knew it was inevitable... Before I left, she insisted that I try it on. So I did, hoping against hope that it would be too small. Alas, no, it fit okay. My mother was there with me and the look on her face... Jesus. So of course my grandmother is saying "Oh, that looks darling on you. Do you like it?" GOD. I hate lying, I really, really hate lying, and I am not exactly fully capable of delivering a whopper when I'm doing a deer-in-headlights impression. So I think I said something about it being cute but "not exactly my style." She looked a little crestfallen at first but brightened when I said I'd keep it. She forgot to ask me for the $20 back though. My mother had excused herself from the room and I heard some suspicious muffled sounds. She later told me that she viewed it as a "fucking trainwreck that I couldn't do anything to stop."

So what did I DO with the hideous thing, you ask? I folded it neatly and put it in a plastic bag and buried it under a mound of shoes in my closet. And it's going to stay there til I attend my grandmother's funeral.
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Old 01-10-2005, 04:25 PM   #2
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Well, at least you got that much. My grandma's idea of a good gift would be a handful of pistachios or something ridiculous like that!
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Mwahahaha
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My grandma's idea of a good gift would be a handful of pistachios or something ridiculous like that!*
omi dont you get a blood orange to go with that as well lol

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sv did you fold like on the video
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Old 01-10-2005, 05:30 PM   #7
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sv did you fold like on the video
uh, okay, confession: I rolled it into a ball and shoved it into a bag with my dirty rags that I'd used to clean the house. When I got it home I removed the rags, put them in the laundry and kept the shirt in the bag and stashed it as far under the pile of shoes as possible.

If I could have buried it like a bone in the backyard, I would have!
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you disgust me that was a present from you gran
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^ Whatever. You probably would have lit it on fire when you got home.
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tied it up into a new chew toy for my dog...
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What! why do you make me out to be some sort of ruffian? why sv? WHY?

why must you constantly abash my motives? make out to be this monstrosity? do you realise how much i hurt. do you? DO YOU?
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I think you gran is great...wouldn't it be funny if she was just doing it to mess with you
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Thats an awful prsent. One time when I was about twelve a family friend gave me a sesame street counting book (#s 1-10) for xmas.
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Jeanie you should sell it on ebay. I bet you could get $20 for it; people will buy anything on there.
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any chance of you getting the shirt out putting it on and letting us have a look? You know flower print is back in vogue for this season you could be highly fasgionable
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Thats the kind of granny I want to be.
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Believe me. She wasn't.

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Are you insane? Hell no! The only part of me that will touch it is my hand, and that's only to move it from place to god forsaken place when necessary. It's an atrocity.

But the worst part is that she asked me for the 20 bucks back!!! I don't need the 20 bucks, but jesus christ! I was aghast.
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And it's going to stay there til I attend my grandmother's funeral.**
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I'd be afraid of what she leaves you in her will.* Very afraid.
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OKAY: I have a picture of the offending garment. Please understand that I am not responsible for any damage to your optical retinas, rods or cones. Look at your own risk...

kill me

It looks like it's trying desperately to masquerade as "sweet and innocent".
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