When I was 12, my grandad gave me a Thomas the Tank Engine book/cassette that was obviously meant for a 5 year old. I was so anxious to make him believe that I really liked it (and therefore not get told off for being ungrateful) that I launched myself across the room to give him a hug, tripped and cracked my head on the edge of a wooden chair.
I cried
lots.
Каждому, каждому в лучшее верится,
Катится, катится голубой вагон!
For 4 years my Step-Great Nan gave me a BBC history magazine for christmas.
Strangely I miss her presents now I'm over 16. (She stops sending gifts when you hit 16 - special lady lol)
Let us go then you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table
- T.S. Elliot
Last year's version of this thread descended into an argument after someone pointed out it could be seen as ungrateful to say any were 'worst.'
Did make me chuckle to remember..
Heh, I remember that.
My Grandma got a very luminous handbag, I never carry handbags but I didn't throw it away; It's somewhere in my room filled with a lot of crap.
I've had some very odd presents but hum for Christmas last year I got my friends second hand pair of ugg boots now this would be fine except she knows I hate ugh boots!!
For my birthday she gave me a fake DVD that doesn't work and I know they say the thought counts and what not but I was really offended by that haha
When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty. ~Woody Allen
Is a chocolate muffin loving glitter ball
give it to someone? i get presents i dont like but ive never put anything in the bin, and i think if i did my mum would just refuse to buy me anything again.
I never put stuff in the bin, but I should give stuff to charity more; I always just keep stuff in the hope that one day I will use it, but I never do!
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I dont want to turn it this into an anti-RSPCA thread, but basically their policy of putting down animals when other charities do not. For example those with long term medical issues. One example is putting down cats with FIV (FIV is the cat equivalent of AIDS in us), regardless of them not showing any symptoms of being unhealthy. FIV is generally referred to as "cat aids" in the TV programmes which feature them. Whereas the Cats Protection, Blue Cross and Battersea do not put cats down with FIV, unless the vet says so. They also put down cats which have been there a long time, just because they are deemed "unadoptable" whereas the other charities (Blue Cross/Cats Protection) do not.
Google "RSPCA and putting animals down" and you will find things that the RSPCA have done wrong when other charities have not had to take some drastic action.
BTW if anyone here is an RSPCA volunteer, I am not angry at you, as the volunteers are not to blame. It's the managers and those that are in headquarters making decisions who are to blame, not the volunteers.
Oooh, I see! Thanks for the explanation :) I don't know a lot about animal charities, so it's good to hear different perspectives!
I really can't think of a worse Christmas present! Last year I did a secret Santa with people from my drama course at uni and it was ****ing ****. Everyone ended up revealing who they had and it just ruined it. So the girl who had me she bought me some little Hello Kitty box with a Hello Kitty inside, stickers and sweets HOWEVER she did buy me a t-shirt and I think it was supposed to be an MCR one and it had gone out of stock so she ordered me one that is black with a like shirt pattern on it. I can't recall where I have put it but it was a lovely thought from her. But that wasn't the worse... I really can't think what has been the worse! XD
I once got a load of really girly, tight-fitting clothes :/. I cannot cope with tight-fitting clothes and I am not very feminine at all.
But the good thing is, is that I gave some of the clothes to charity and the rest to a friend who is younger than me.
When my mum and I actually talked, she used to throw away all my presents, saying to my face that they were "rubbish" or "not suitable", birthdays included. Needless to say I stopped buying her presents when I moved out into supported housing.
PM me if you want a PDF copy of the ICD-10or the Mental Health Act 1983/2007. I ALSO HAVE THE DSM-V BOOK and am a pharmacology student.
I have a visual impairment / neurological problems so I need people to type in clear text and no funny fonts. Also excuse any typos, my vision blocks things out.
I have autism and have problems communicating, PMs included.
Just becasue I type well doesn't mean I speak well. I am only part time verbal.
I try not to hate any of my Christmas presents, no matter how random. However, once I got a secret santa gift from a girl on my swim team that was a cardboard jewelry box filled with used bath beads. They were all different colors and sizes, and had pretty obviously been leftovers of other sets. Also, it was labeled on the inside, "To Emma, Love Grandma".
Neither her name or mine was Emma. Where the heck did that box come from?!
My nan always gets me presents which are never going to be used every year. When I was about 14 she got me this horrible top which stuck to me and choked me. She also used to give me free stuff from magazines every year. Like make up and stuff. I've never ever used make up that came free from a magazine so I don't even know why she bothered with that one.
Oh, just remembered that boyface once got me a fake Ipod from China off Ebay. For a fiver. The day I got it, the USB cable broke so we had to send off for a new one. When I got a new one, I put some songs on there, within a day, the "Ipod" was dead. Not one of his greatest ideas
Celtic Wings - that really is awful! Was it a punnishment for being naughty or a joke with your real present elsewhere? Both cruel to a seven year old I would say.
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