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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Aug 12, 2023 13:42:16 GMT
It never ceases to amaze how people who have known you all their lives - friends or family who by all rights ought to be aware of your tastes, interests and hobbies - can still buy you completely inappropriate presents for birthdays and the like, while saying with a totally straight face "I saw this and thought of you." Why do they do it, I wonder? Is it some form of passive-aggressiveness where what they're actually saying is "you should like this because I/ everyone else do[es]"? It's all very bizarre, I must say.
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emily
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Post by emily on Aug 14, 2023 19:25:22 GMT
I had an aunty like this
never quite understood it
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Post by Bruce Partington-Plans on Aug 20, 2023 12:12:53 GMT
I think the worst example from my own family must be my father who, for a Christmas or birthday back in 1997, gave me a build-your-own polystyrene hovercraft kit and - I kid you not - one of those fake rubber arms you see in joke shops. To this very day I don't know what he was thinking; he gives me money now, which is probably safer if a bit uninspired.
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