"So, are you the sort that likes to wait for the surprise of your presents, or do you too send your wife off to the tip with the old guttering while you rummage through all the carrier bags?
Mr ddc"
The latter |
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After years of disappointments Mrs ddc gives me a list for her birthday 
For other people she uses the joint credit card, though now shows me what "we've" bought (after an embarrassing Christmas when I said to her mother "ooh, that's nice, who bought you that?" Only to be told "You did, don't you remember buying it?"  ) |
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Ahhh bless, she's just come back and gone to hide them upstairs so I can't see them.
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(Soooooo much trouble  )
On the bright side, I may not be needing much make-up for the Hallowe'en avatar challenge...
(Fingers crossed fresh raspberry mille-feuilles will placate her) |
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I was dreadful as a kid, always rummaging in the backs of cupboards to see what I might be getting for my birthday or Christmas.
I'm a little more restrained now  |
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"So, are you the sort that likes to wait for the surprise of your presents, or do you too send your wife off to the tip with the old guttering while you rummage through all the carrier bags?
Mr ddc"
Is this a subtle way of getting someone to shoehorn the Christmas word into a thread?
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You don't give to receive obviously but after giving my friend a really great birthday present in march I was a bit let down with the crap perfume she gave me for mine. |
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Is this a subtle way of getting someone to shoehorn the Christmas word into a thread?
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Noooo,
My birthday, Hallowe'en, bonfire night, Mrs ddc's birthday. Only then are we allowed to use the 'C' word |
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I'm not fond of surprise presents as both the giver and the receiver need to be attuned for it to work. I am rarely on the same wavelength as others, even those closest to me. |
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Lol once my missus or children say they got a surprise for me its game over! I'm like a dog with a bone....... poor kids even hide there advent calenders from me  |
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"What surprise new socks! "
So, after struggling for days matching the colours of the random multi-coloured stripes on my new socks to the colour of my pants and shirt, Mrs ddc has just admitted that she bought them deliberately to mess with my head.
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"What surprise new socks!
So, after struggling for days matching the colours of the random multi-coloured stripes on my new socks to the colour of my pants and shirt, Mrs ddc has just admitted that she bought them deliberately to mess with my head.
Mr ddc"
Revenge for your unreasonable birthday cake demands 
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"What surprise new socks!
So, after struggling for days matching the colours of the random multi-coloured stripes on my new socks to the colour of my pants and shirt, Mrs ddc has just admitted that she bought them deliberately to mess with my head.
Mr ddc
Revenge for your unreasonable birthday cake demands
Won't do that again will you? "
Next year I'm going to insist on striped Smarties - that ought to keep her quiet for a bit...
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"What surprise new socks!
So, after struggling for days matching the colours of the random multi-coloured stripes on my new socks to the colour of my pants and shirt, Mrs ddc has just admitted that she bought them deliberately to mess with my head.
Mr ddc"
I actually thought it would be easier as you could just pick the first pair out of the drawer and wear em!
Either that or you'd ask me to take them back. 
Mrs DDC
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Striped smarties, omg, good job he's old enough to have forgotten this by next year. (I hope) |
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I've recently told people to spend more on my nieces rather than give me stuff as I don't need anything. That backfired as now I receive money equivalent. I don't think my family quite understood what I meant |
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I actually thought it would be easier as you could just pick the first pair out of the drawer and wear em!
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27 years, and still she doesn't know me
(Which is the 'shaking head in a disconsolate manner' emoticon?)
And where's that "Should I try to change him?" thread... |
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I actually thought it would be easier as you could just pick the first pair out of the drawer and wear em!
27 years, and still she doesn't know me
(Which is the 'shaking head in a disconsolate manner' emoticon?)
And where's that "Should I try to change him?" thread..."
Poor fellow, maybe perhaps you should purchase handcuffs and each year Mrs DDC buys you presents that aren't to your satisfaction, you handcuff her somewhere to think about what she's done
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I actually thought it would be easier as you could just pick the first pair out of the drawer and wear em!
27 years, and still she doesn't know me
(Which is the 'shaking head in a disconsolate manner' emoticon?)
And where's that "Should I try to change him?" thread...
Poor fellow, maybe perhaps you should purchase handcuffs and each year Mrs DDC buys you presents that aren't to your satisfaction, you handcuff her somewhere to think about what she's done
Disclaimer: this may contravene human rights act "
I rue the day they made 'obey' voluntary in the wedding vows
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I actually thought it would be easier as you could just pick the first pair out of the drawer and wear em!
27 years, and still she doesn't know me
(Which is the 'shaking head in a disconsolate manner' emoticon?)
And where's that "Should I try to change him?" thread...
Poor fellow, maybe perhaps you should purchase handcuffs and each year Mrs DDC buys you presents that aren't to your satisfaction, you handcuff her somewhere to think about what she's done
Disclaimer: this may contravene human rights act
I rue the day they made 'obey' voluntary in the wedding vows
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Is this a hint that you want a tardis for Christmas young man? |
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More worryingly, no Smarties 
I miss having someone to buy presents for as I used almost an entire roll of wrapping paper and sellotape for each present and 
hid them 