"Oh...Wow, Aunt Berthie, uh, thanks for the card...what's this? A gift certificate for Betty's Big Duds For Whales?"
Sorry. I'm a spaz.
But seriously, has this ever happened to you?
(thanks to Kiwi Thunderer for the idea of this thread).

Every year my grandmother would give my white handkerchiefs  ::)

The fact she had been calling me by my cousin's name for the 15 years prior to her passing made it even more ridiculous, as it was his initial she had monogrammed onto them.... :o

My brother and sister-in-law once got me a pair of mugs, one with a pack of coffee in and the other filled with chocolate coated coffee beans.  I HATE coffee.  My brother was the only one in our house to drink it, did he forget that?

My mother bought me a black and white leopard print speedo. And of course like all mothers she forced me to wear it.

My grandmother gave me a "Massage Wand" for my 19th birthday, she didn't understand why everyone was laughing so hard when I opened it up. She had no clue that people use them for more than just stiff muscles.

I recd a shirt for Birthday from my friend that had the 101 Dalmations.... I thought it was really cute. I looked at it closer and saw it was "101 Dogs Doing It"  and these dalmations were um..well anyway I thought I was gonna die because I had opened it in front of a bunch of people that I didn't really know!  :-[ ;D

My brother and his wife are pretty good at asking what you want and then getting something completely different that you don't like/will never use.My fiance made the fatal mistake one year of going out on the morning of my birthday and buying me a video that he wanted ...........as you can imagine he has NEVER made that mistake again ! ;D

Many years ago, I used to live with this guy. One year, for Christmas, my sister sent me a shirt. I opened it up and the guy looked at it and said, "WHAT AN UGLY SHIRT!!! Would you wear something like this?" He went on and on how the shirt was so ugly. He even tried it on to make his point on how ugly it was. After that, the only time I saw the shirt was when HE was wearing it. I never understood that. He made such a production at how ugly the shirt was and basically stole it from me. (That's ok, though because it was an ugly shirt and I wouldn't have worn it.  ;))



Cat

One year for Christmas, I took a catalogue and circled what I wanted-one of those sound machine/aroma thearapy things. Thus armed, my husband Paul went to Service Merchandise, purchased it, wrapped it and put it under the tree.  On Christmas morning, I opened it up and...the box was empty! He had grabbed the display model box! When he took it back, the store was completely out-they had sold even the display model! (I always wondered id they were curious as to where the box went.) Oh, yes, I really wanted to go with him to see the look on the clerk's face when my husband took an empty box back for a refund! Fortunately. he took it back to the same clerk that he had got it from-and she remembered him  She probably STILL remembers him! What a goofus!

I never did get a replacement present!

Only in my world! ::)

After three years of stating how much I HATED fuzzy slippers (the kind that covers your whole foot), that's exactly what my mom got for me one year.

They were supposed to look like bear paws.  Ok, they were cute, but I would not wear them.  I HATE fuzzy slippers, they make my feet sweat, and the sweat makes them stink.

Mom could never understand why I never wore them.

About a year later, my brother clued her in.  I just couldn't bring myself to do it...I didn't want to hurt her feelings.

She still doesn't understand why I HATE fuzzy slippers.  She says they keep your feet warm in winter.  So do socks, and my feet don't sweat in socks.  :P

For my 13th birthday, ShellyGal gave me a birthday card and it said "....wow, your 13, in cat years, you'd be dead." I was like... "Thanks, how thoughtful." ::)

One year my 2 best friends were making their way home from a road trip on the day of my birthday. They arrived at my place with a "present" for me...they said they had only remembered it was my birthday part way home...

The envelope had been sealed and ripped open...it had "Joyce" written on it in blue pen, crossed out with black pen and "Jon" written on it...

Inside was a birthday card "To a lovely daughter" and the word daughter was crossed out and friend was written in the same black pen...also inside was a key chain with the name JOYCE on it.

They also gave me a McDonalds cheeseburger but had taken a bite out of it to see if it was good.

As I was LMAO they gave me my real gift which was a new comforter for the bed I had just purchased.

It was the funniest gift I ever got!

modified to correct a spelling error...d'oh!

in the group I used to hang around with in school we had this thing where we would buy joke presents fro xmas and serious ones for birthdays but one year we thought we'd take it a step further and take something about the person and buy them a joke present relating to it, my hair was a serious issue and so i got hair gel  :-/ I did use it though!!