What Christmas gift disappointed you/pissed you off the most?

[morethanpretty]

I am pissed off about a gift I haven't got, I don't know what it is, and I don't care. What pisses off is that I should have gotten in Christmas morning. The gift is from my nanny (g-ma to some). Why didn't I get it? Because she decided her Christmas morning was better spent over with my aunt's family rather than mine. Sure she had gotten stuck over there the night before due to snow and ice, but she could have driven home the next morning, easily. My mom even called and asked her to come over, we moved our gathering back an hour so that the roads would be plenty clear. My mom explained clearly to her that Christmas would be the only day our side of the family would be able to all get together. Did she come? No.
I saw her later in the day at the extended family gathering, we all brought our gifts to her and gave 'em over. Its just not the same, not nearly as close family-ish. Oh, and she had the nerve to say "I feel bad I can't give y'all your gifts now." Really, you do? You're a few hours too late for that. I guess my aunt's family is just more important than us, I mean they are the one's with all the drama and drugs. Oh, and they're the side who always begs her for money because they misspend theirs. I guess if she spent less time with them she would have less to complain to us about.


I think my rant beats yours Elzie...not that its a competition.

[glatt]

I'm happy with all my gifts this year. Nothing extravagant. But everything was nice. An excellent Christmas all around.

The only thing that I could possibly complain about is that an uncle gave the kids a small aquarium. After our cat died a few years ago, we decided we would be a no pets household. So I hid the thing in the basement after the kids opened it and they were busy playing with other presents. If they notice and ask about it, I'll tell them that we don't do pets in our house. But it would have been easier if this uncle hadn't pushed pets on us for Christmas. He meant well.

[monster]

Originally Posted by glatt

I'm happy with all my gifts this year. Nothing extravagant. But everything was nice. An excellent Christmas all around.

The only thing that I could possibly complain about is that an uncle gave the kids a small aquarium. After our cat died a few years ago, we decided we would be a no pets household. So I hid the thing in the basement after the kids opened it and they were busy playing with other presents. If they notice and ask about it, I'll tell them that we don't do pets in our house. But it would have been easier if this uncle hadn't pushed pets on us for Christmas. He meant well.

If they do remember it, you could use it for tadpoles in the spring and then release the frogs....