Worst Christmas Present Ever Contest!
On December 9, 2011 at 10:06 PM Pacific Time, k9ophile wrote:
We're actually waiting until spring for better weather for outside training purposes. It's too cold to be taking them out for potty trips even in TN. When we do get them, they'll be rescues. Yep, I said them. I just hope I can hold out that long. Since my dog died last August, I have been having very serious fur withdrawal. I tried to make friends with the dog next door, but he doesn't cotton to strangers very well. I have yet to approach total strangers to ask for puppy cuddles, but it's been very hard not to.
So I go to the pool with my MIL and I compliment her on her beautful legs, which is true, she does have great legs. Well, that Chrsitmas she gives me a gift. I open it in front of my FIL, my husband and my husband's brother who happens to be very cute and an ER doctor. It is in a pretty Sephora bag and Im thinking its purfume or eye shadow. I was very excited to open it as I love Sephora. Well, it turns out to be a tub of cellulite cream called "Fat Girl Slim".
The first is a bad present story, but not funny. The second is just a horrible Xmas story. Both involve my DH's ex. Bah, humbug!
My husband's first wife decided to be a stay-at-home mom when their kids were born, leaving a decent job as an insurance adjuster to make him to be the sole breadwinner. Being in the construction business (building new homes and remodeling homes), he worked essentially 24/7, 365. On the weekends, he did side jobs.
Eventually, on some weekends, his wife agreed to bring the girls to the job site for a couple of hours so he could see them while they were awake. They would play with the wood and sawdust and small hand tools, pretending to be daddy's helper, and the ex would occasionally "help out" while he was working by sweeping up the sawdust or sanded drywall dust.
He was rather enjoying these little family projects, and the girls loved being around their father and watching him build things.
So what did his wife get him that Xmas?
A Shop-Vac, so she wouldn't have any reason to bring the kids to the job sites anymore. And she didn't.
~~~
Another story about this horrible woman: a few weeks before we met, it was December, and my DH had contracted pneumonia. He had an hourly job, and didn't get paid when he didn't work. He had left his wife a couple of years before, and given them essentially everything he didn't need to live a substistence life on - he even lived in his car for a bit. Although he is normally a superb and overly-generous Xmas gift shopper, and LOVES to buy presents, he was simply too sick to shop, and somewhat short on money. So he gave his ex $300 and asked her to use it to buy presents for the girls (ages 13 and 18).
His ex had recently met someone online, and invited him to spend Xmas at the house. Yet, for some reason, she INSISTED that my DH come over for Xmas morning for the opening of the presents. He REALLY didn't want to, but she guilted him into coming. So he got up from his sick bed and dragged himself over to his former home, to watch his girls open their presents with his ex-wife and her new lover sitting on his former couch in their PJs.
Important fact: it was their family tradition that all the presents under the tree were from "Santa." So imagine if you can, his feelings when he realized that what he had been dragged over to witness ....
That all the presents under the tree for the girls were labeled "From Mom and Mark" (yes, loverboy).
He was gobsmacked. To his credit, and most amazingly, he didn't say a word while this nasty tableau was played out for his benefit.
He had about $50 in his wallet to tide him over until after New Years. After the presents were opened, he took the girls aside and gave them the money, apologizing for not getting them any actual presents.
This was one of the things I learned not too long after I met him in early February. Eventually, I made sure both of his daughters learned what had really happened that Xmas (I was good and patient - I didn't tell the younger one until she was an adult). I would kill that woman with my bare hands if I could. Hohoho.
My husband's first wife decided to be a stay-at-home mom when their kids were born, leaving a decent job as an insurance adjuster to make him to be the sole breadwinner. Being in the construction business (building new homes and remodeling homes), he worked essentially 24/7, 365. On the weekends, he did side jobs.
Eventually, on some weekends, his wife agreed to bring the girls to the job site for a couple of hours so he could see them while they were awake. They would play with the wood and sawdust and small hand tools, pretending to be daddy's helper, and the ex would occasionally "help out" while he was working by sweeping up the sawdust or sanded drywall dust.
He was rather enjoying these little family projects, and the girls loved being around their father and watching him build things.
So what did his wife get him that Xmas?
A Shop-Vac, so she wouldn't have any reason to bring the kids to the job sites anymore. And she didn't.
~~~
Another story about this horrible woman: a few weeks before we met, it was December, and my DH had contracted pneumonia. He had an hourly job, and didn't get paid when he didn't work. He had left his wife a couple of years before, and given them essentially everything he didn't need to live a substistence life on - he even lived in his car for a bit. Although he is normally a superb and overly-generous Xmas gift shopper, and LOVES to buy presents, he was simply too sick to shop, and somewhat short on money. So he gave his ex $300 and asked her to use it to buy presents for the girls (ages 13 and 18).
His ex had recently met someone online, and invited him to spend Xmas at the house. Yet, for some reason, she INSISTED that my DH come over for Xmas morning for the opening of the presents. He REALLY didn't want to, but she guilted him into coming. So he got up from his sick bed and dragged himself over to his former home, to watch his girls open their presents with his ex-wife and her new lover sitting on his former couch in their PJs.
Important fact: it was their family tradition that all the presents under the tree were from "Santa." So imagine if you can, his feelings when he realized that what he had been dragged over to witness ....
That all the presents under the tree for the girls were labeled "From Mom and Mark" (yes, loverboy).
He was gobsmacked. To his credit, and most amazingly, he didn't say a word while this nasty tableau was played out for his benefit.
He had about $50 in his wallet to tide him over until after New Years. After the presents were opened, he took the girls aside and gave them the money, apologizing for not getting them any actual presents.
This was one of the things I learned not too long after I met him in early February. Eventually, I made sure both of his daughters learned what had really happened that Xmas (I was good and patient - I didn't tell the younger one until she was an adult). I would kill that woman with my bare hands if I could. Hohoho.
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