The Gifts that Keep on Giving

Have you ever heard the phrase, "its just a gift that keeps on giving"? Well I have and I actually have one of those 'gifts' in my life right now. We all know of such gifts, fruitcakes at Christmas time, nasty perfume or cologne a grandparent gave us, an 'ex' significant other, stalker, illnesses, etc.
Possibly my favorite is the Christmas fruitcake. Why do they even exist anymore? Nobody likes them and the same fruitcake can make it all around the community in one Christmas season! I've seen, in my own family, husband/wife conferences discussing some gift they are thinking of giving to someone else on a special occasion. The discussion usually goes with the husband saying, "Yeah, lets give them that. We don't use it and it looks new. They'll never know we didn't buy it specifically for them." The wife, who is usually more on the ball, replies something like, "No, honey (gag for the pet names also but that's for another day), I'm almost certain, now that i think about it, that they gave that gift to us!" And so the story always goes, we have these things that nobody wants but we give them away to people in vulnerable positions (such as having it be their birthday or being our neighbor around Christmas) and hope to never see them again. But just like those nasty exes, dramatic friends, and malaria, they always seem to find their way back to us!

So I guess what I'm getting at is if you have one of these gifts in your possession give it to the DI so someone else can be graced with it and charity can get some money from them. Nobody wants those gifts to make the rounds again. If you are one of those gifts then PLEASE for the sake of humanity STOP giving back, as your giving may be compared to the giving of The Bubonic Plague or AIDS.

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