Weird Christmas presents received?

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• KT53 Posts: 9,016

  1 January

  Joyce Goldenlily said:

  I think this year I received the weirdest present ever!
  A small pretty bag of cellophane-wrapped firelighters! I was not wearing my reading glasses when I opened the gift and thought they were sweets of some kind. A good job I didn't go for the taste test immediately.

  
  Imagine if you had tasted them whilst smoking a cigarette!
  

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• KT53 Posts: 9,016

  1 January

  A friend of ours clearly thinks I enjoy puzzles and I'm super intelligent.  Over the past 3 Christmasses I have received 'The World's Hardest Sudoko' book, 'The Escape Room' book and, this year, the 'Mensa Crossword' book.  She has obviously only heard part of what I enjoy - jigsaw puzzles not just puzzles in general.  How do you tell somebody they are buying the wrong thing all the time?
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  1 January

  Last year someone have us some alcohol in a cage with a padlock and a puzzle to work out the combination.  I managed to get the wrapping off the bottle with a pokey stick. It turned out to be spiced rum. We've never fancied it enough to work out how to get in - so there it sits.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Ergates Posts: 2,953

  1 January

  @KT53, I’d try and drop into conversation as soon as you can that it was a shame that you didn’t get any jigsaw puzzles this year. I usually give very detailed ‘hints’ to my children! They usually ask me for suggestions for presents for OH, who is notoriously difficult to shop for, so while I’m doing that, I drop some ideas for myself! Worked a treat this year. I was given a selection of lovely soaps from both children, not expensive but a real treat and something that will get used. 
  OH used to get quite concerned when my late mother would give him every year a book along the lines of ‘The Worlds Worst Failures’ or similar. Asked me if she was trying to tell him something!

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• Simone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073

  1 January

  @pansyface made my day 😂 

  I ♥ my garden.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  1 January

  Bats in the belfry

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• KT53 Posts: 9,016

  1 January

  B3 said:

  Last year someone have us some alcohol in a cage with a padlock and a puzzle to work out the combination.  I managed to get the wrapping off the bottle with a pokey stick. It turned out to be spiced rum. We've never fancied it enough to work out how to get in - so there it sits.

  
  I was given one last year too.  I looked at the puzzle and really couldn't be ar**ed to go to all that effort.  A wide bladed screwdriver was enough to open the hinges on the lid.  Nice bottle of red wine no longer captive.

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• Joyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933

  2 January

  My neighbour gave me a large stick on  No 1, to put on my swanky new wheelie bin which everyone is being given.
  Except, I haven't been given a wheelie bin and I live in No 3.
  I gave her the number back thinking she may have meant to give it to her other neighbour and got the gifts the wrong way around in the hussle of Christmas.

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• Joyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933

  2 January

  KT53 said:

  Joyce Goldenlily said:

  I think this year I received the weirdest present ever!
  A small pretty bag of cellophane-wrapped firelighters! I was not wearing my reading glasses when I opened the gift and thought they were sweets of some kind. A good job I didn't go for the taste test immediately.

  
  Imagine if you had tasted them whilst smoking a cigarette!
  

  Boom!

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• Joyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933

  2 January

  Hmmm! I hadn't thought of that.
  No chance, it is half the size of my cottage, although I would own 2 fields and a lane, but no garden front or rear. I don't think so.

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