FYI Your worst gift ever?

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

My daughter bought me something for Christmas three years ago and I still have no fucking idea what it is or what it is used for. When I asked her what it was she said that she wasn't sure but she said that it looked like something a dad would have. It is in a fancy case and it is like a ball point pen but where the refill should be is a solid piece of pointed metal, a bit like a nail, the box also contains a spare "nail" and a small metal template with various size hexagonal cut outs. There is no writing on the box and nothing inside to indicate what this piece of absolute junk is for.

Sounds like a scribe set for marking metal

 

[King-Rory]

You got a pic of it ? Sounds like a glass etching pen View attachment 841688

It looks something like that but I couldn't see the rounded end of the point etching anything harder than card.

Sounds like a scribe set for marking metal

That is what I thought when I first saw it but the tip is rounded and appears to be made of mild steel, I doubt it would hold a point for very long.

 

[Super Kirbo]

The mystery of this gift is killing me

 

[djdeeds]

My daughter bought me something for Christmas three years ago and I still have no fucking idea what it is or what it is used for. When I asked her what it was she said that she wasn't sure but she said that it looked like something a dad would have. It is in a fancy case and it is like a ball point pen but where the refill should be is a solid piece of pointed metal, a bit like a nail, the box also contains a spare "nail" and a small metal template with various size hexagonal cut outs. There is no writing on the box and nothing inside to indicate what this piece of absolute junk is for.

LOL maybe you can heat the ends up on the stove and brand people with it

 

[Graziani]

My parents lost their nicest house on my 11th birthday.

How?

 

[FundamentallyLoathsome]

An ex that wanted to experiment with roleplay and called me "dad" instead of "daddy". Crazy people give you uncomfortable "gifts" all the time.

 

[girl101]

It wasn’t a gift to me, but this hurt - when I was a kid I was in love with geology. I BEGGED my mom to take me to Knotts Berry Farm bc they had a store that sold geodes and would cut them open for you. She finally relented, I picked the best looking geode I could find, and it was amazing! It was crusted with tourmalines, with larger crystal growths intersecting. Pinks and greens, it was wonderful, the shop even offered to buy it back for twice what we paid for it (I said no way).

Fast forward about 8 years, she’s dating some bozo with a kid younger than me, and I watch that twerp open a gift from ‘me’ ( I didn’t get her shit, idc who she is) and it’s my geode 😢 my mother gave MY geode, that had several levels of connection and meaning for me, to someone else.

Well that sucks. I would be pissed off to.

That store is there

https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-geode-shop-buena-park

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

Well that sucks. I would be pissed off to.

That store is there

https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-geode-shop-buena-park

Yes, that is the shop! Lovely to see it’s still there.

 

[girl101]

Secret Santa at work last year... Not bad, but more embarrassing. So I have an autistic stim with music. If someone says a specific word, or hums a small part of a tune, my brain will immediately pick a song that matches and I'll sing to it. One of my coworkers was playing his YouTube music and this song called "No cock like horse cock" from pepper coyote started playing. It was funny, we laughed, but now my brain knows of the song. For 3 years, any time someone mentioned anything about horses, or even hummed the intro, I would sing the whole song! Last year for our work Secret Santa, we all went out to a Chinese restaurant, ate, and exchange gifts. When it became my turn, the fucker who introduced me to the song got up started playing that damn song and plopped this 13" long black horse cock dildo on the table. Damn thing had a decent suction cup so it was stuck on the table. I'm not gonna use the damn thing (I've got my limits) so I decided to make it a self defense weapon at home. If someone breaks in, they're gonna find out how Mr Hands feels my god, hilarious and you have the picture to prove it

 

[Ares_rose1991]

I knew with a story like that, proof was definitely needed 😆

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

With a story like that, a demonstration is essential

 

[girl101]

I think the horses dick takes the cake
On worst gift ever

 

[whitelife]

Dad restored and sold a nice car as a kid and promised something awesome when he got home. It was a pack of gum.

 

[girl101]

My parents lost their nicest house on my 11th birthday.

So tell us we all want to know

Secret Santa at work last year... Not bad, but more embarrassing. So I have an autistic stim with music. If someone says a specific word, or hums a small part of a tune, my brain will immediately pick a song that matches and I'll sing to it. One of my coworkers was playing his YouTube music and this song called "No cock like horse cock" from pepper coyote started playing. It was funny, we laughed, but now my brain knows of the song. For 3 years, any time someone mentioned anything about horses, or even hummed the intro, I would sing the whole song! Last year for our work Secret Santa, we all went out to a Chinese restaurant, ate, and exchange gifts. When it became my turn, the fucker who introduced me to the song got up started playing that damn song and plopped this 13" long black horse cock dildo on the table. Damn thing had a decent suction cup so it was stuck on the table. I'm not gonna use the damn thing (I've got my limits) so I decided to make it a self defense weapon at home. If someone breaks in, they're gonna find out how Mr Hands feels.

Your gift takes the cake on worst gift ever

And you have the picture to prove it

Congratulations

 

[Amalgamation]

How?

So tell us we all want to know

US housing market crash, 2008.

 

[girl101]

US housing market crash,

Oh that sucks

I thought you were going to say it burned down or something like that

 

[mrln]

Oh that sucks

I thought you were going to say it burned down or something like that

i was thinking a gambling incident.

well @Epicurus you werent the only family,so you werent alone in that. but it still sux,i know.
lost my job during the recession shortly there after that. and if i was making mortgage payments back then,i too would have lost the house. as it is,i almost lost both vehicles. good thing i had children at that time,because the landlord never threw us out. because i was only able to make partial rent payments for most of that year. took me almost a year to pay him all back what i was behind.
sorry to hear that.

 

[Amalgamation]

i was thinking a gambling incident.

well @Epicurus you werent the only family,so you werent alone in that. but it still sux,i know.
lost my job during the recession shortly there after that. and if i was making mortgage payments back then,i too would have lost the house. as it is,i almost lost both vehicles. good thing i had children at that time,because the landlord never threw us out. because i was only able to make partial rent payments for most of that year. took me almost a year to pay him all back what i was behind.
sorry to hear that.

I'm glad your landlord was half decent, and took your children into consideration. My mother and her husband were at the mercy of the banks, but if we never went through such things who's to say I would not be like the spineless bastards that fill my generation? It is what it is. We couldn't afford heat, so I learned to cope in negative temps with wind chill to cut and gather firewood. Had to weave a Dodge between trees in a foot of snow at fourteen and up. Learned to build an addition to the trailer we moved into so we could have some more space again.. installed windows, insulation, helped with mud and sanding.. shit I wouldn't have been doing if everything was "perfect".

I'd hardly be a quarter of the man I am if it wasn't for shit like that, but it's nice that you understand how terrible things were at that time.

 

[mrln]

I'm glad your landlord was half decent, and took your children into consideration. My mother and her husband were at the mercy of the banks, but if we never went through such things who's to say I would not be like the spineless bastards that fill my generation? It is what it is. We couldn't afford heat, so I learned to cope in negative temps with wind chill to cut and gather firewood. Had to weave a Dodge between trees in a foot of snow at fourteen and up. Learned to build an addition to the trailer we moved into so we could have some more space again.. installed windows, insulation, helped with mud and sanding.. shit I wouldn't have been doing if everything was "perfect".

I'd hardly be a quarter of the man I am if it wasn't for shit like that, but it's nice that you understand how terrible things were at that time.

yes i know all too well. almost lost the family car just the same.
ive been on the "balls of my ass" before. not a good feeling.
ive tried everything in my power (even still) to keep a roof.
so far,so good!

 

[Ares_rose1991]

I think the horses dick takes the cake
On worst gift ever

I can never return to that restaurant ever again 😭. The prolonged eye contact with the waiter while I'm trying to fight this horse dick off their table (fuckers had a plexy layer on the table tops and the assholes had the inside of the suction cup damp so it would hold better)