HUMOUR
These Christmas Gifts Were Ho-Ho-Horrible
’Tis the season of terrible gifts. Vote for your favourite!
’Tis the season of spectacular Gift Fails. I’ve been the recipient of a few jaw-droppers. My most memorable was the year my husband gifted me — wait for it — an elephant costume. What woman doesn’t want an elephant costume?! (Hint: This one.) He said the costume store was going out of business, the elephant outfits were a steal, and he remembered how I “love Halloween.” Hmm.
I thought: I can’t be the only one who’s received a comical or ghastly Christmas gift. A little scouring of the internet proved I’m in good company. Feel free to vote in the comments on which of these terrible gifts should be crowned “The Worst Christmas Gift Ever”:
- American media personality Michelle Visage laments on YouTube that her loving husband once gave her a laminator for Christmas. (You never know when the urge to laminate will crop up. Michelle is ready.)
- A woman on Reddit recalls the year her great aunt gave her moisturizing lotion. Nice. But it would have been nicer, had the label not shown it was 12 years out-of-date. (#ReGiftingFail)
- A woman on Facebook bought her young son a toy spider, called a “Yellie.” Yellie scuttles across the floor in the direction of the loudest sound it hears. It began chasing the boy around when he started screaming in panic. (No doubt the kid is still in therapy.)
- Most people think hard candy is a dandy gift. However, one recipient was less than impressed to receive a tin of “Fried Chicken Candy.” (Perhaps she’d have preferred the company’s alternate choice: “Ketchup Candy.”)
- A guy who posts on Reddit says that, as a teen, Santa brought him a book titled Coping With Being Adopted. Surprise! He hadn’t known. (No wonder his username is AngryCyclops.)
- A fellow who posts on Reddit under the username datcat2 says his grandma was once gifted a pair of socks for Christmas. Pretty standard present. Unbeknownst to the giver, she’d recently had her leg amputated. #Awkward.
- How about the “Shark Bath Bomb that Bleeds Red” available from Etsy? (Hopefully this wasn’t a stocking stuffer for the little guy still traumatized by his Yellie.) The giver may have added a “bloody bath mat” that appears to leave a trail of bloody footprints when wet.
- And then there’s me, and the infamous elephant outfit (droopy ears displayed by my elf granddaughter in the photo below).
So, your call: Which one qualifies as “The Worst Christmas Ever”? Or do you have an even-worse #GiftFail to share?
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