So yesterday was my birthday, and the holidays are coming up, which means that people all around the world are thinking about gifts for each other. After getting a couple of interesting gifts from the kids, it made me think of all the whacky things I’ve gotten for my birthday or Christmas, and what some of the combinations have been. You know, like a Cook Book and an Intake Manifold, or a Cam Kit and an Ice Cream Maker. Trust me, there are plenty more, as Grandma was always good for the giant bag of socks each year. Can you even buy a bag of 30 pairs of socks anymore? Hmmmm
But anyway, this one is about your whacky gifts or combos, and to be fair I’ll share the gifts that Peyton and Cole gave to good old dad here for his birthday.
Yep folks, a wireless grilling thermometer and a bullhorn. Hell’s to the yeah!
Now it’s your turn! Tell me what you got that is some strange combination of gifts or just one whacky one like a bullhorn!
I got a peddle firetruck from my uncle one year-God bless his soul-I was 12 !
Happy belated birthday, Chad!
I got Go-bots one year….which would have been cool if I had asked for Go-bots…I specificaly said Transformers. All the kids in school got Transformers and I got Go-bots. I was grateful and I played the hell out of them Go-bots…however, what my well meaning mother didnt realize was that she just inked the paperwork that allowed the kids to be cruel to me for another year.
A year mag subscription to a motor cross rag, normally not an odd gift.. but mother didn’t like motorcycles, and would never let one be owned while living under that roof..
Another was a card that said, we got you one gift for your b-day & x-mas (10 days apart) and had to wait till b-day to see what I got.. talk about total suckage, at age 12 to have to wait for santa’s prize, but it was worth it.. my own hifi system..
I got an 8 track player from Panasonic, bright orange in color, that looked like a dynamite plunger. Still works.
On any given football Sunday you can monitor the grill from the easy chair and bullhorn out the window to your wife/kids keeping the weenies safe. From the tape on the handle you’ve used it many times or were hit on the head with it!
One xmas was told I was getting a little sister–wonder if I could return it?
A used handkerchief. Thanks Grandma.
(What I really wanted was a clip-on dead squirrel tail for my chin so I could be like . . . . )
Sucks to have a birthday so close to Christmas. Mine is Dec. 27th. I always got, “Hope you don’t mind that we just combined your gift”. YOU’RE EFFIN-A-RIGHT I MIND!!!
At least you got TWO gifts.
Sorry, sore subject…
hmmmmm,toss up—either the toilet paper with jokes on them—or the official star trek beanie cap—-the 70’s weren’t kind………………
A pair of socks and a dollar bill for twenty one years from my great grandma.