The night of the party the presents were divvied out amongst the 30 women and on the count of 3 everyone tore into their packages. I got some St. Nicholas square appetizer plates that were still in the box. They didn't seem very funny to me and as I looked around the room at all the other gifts every single one of them was some kind of nice home interior piece, or Christmas decoration. No gag gifts whatsoever. I was so confused, but most importantly I thought about the recipient of my present.
Then I spotted a women around my mom's age cocking her head with a gift bag that including a Tae Bo video accompanied by some Zip Fizz energy powder. Yeah, that would be my gift. I felt so bad for her that I went over to offer her the appetizer plates that I received. Without any explanation I said "Here, I will trade you. Take my gift, I insist." She declined the offer because THAT WAS THE GIFT THAT SHE BROUGHT. What are the odds?
I wish I could say that at least we got some good laughs out of it, only it wasn't funny to her at all. I pulled some strings (I've got connections) and I got her a different gift that she could get more enjoyment out of. Although I don't know what could be more enjoyable than watching a sweaty bald guy in spandex.
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Thanks for the good laugh (and hey, I have a TON of those BB Tae Bo workout tapes/dvds!). We had a similar experience THIS YEAR (we being my 13 year old daughter mostly). Her sewing club decided to have a white elephant gift exchange. Think teen girls (well, ages 10-14). So, we thought gag gifts, too. My 13 year old went nuts with this, having never heard of it before. She put a LOT of stuff in a gift bag from broken pencils to wadded up kleenex, maxi pads (not used, of course), among a million other similar things....but everyone else had gifts that were nice, but gently used. OOPS! She DID have some cute nice stuff in there along with a bunch of candy, but you had to dig through everything else to get to it!!! :-/
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