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I don't think I've ever received a really horrible gift.
The only thing that comes to mind is this book I got. My boyfriend's family (his mother's side) was having a family reunion and his mother invited me to join them. This was the first time I was meeting any of his family. As part of the festivities, they asked every guest/couple to bring one gag gift and one real gift. My boyfriend and I bought a pair of lacy, thong panties as our gag gift and this really cool wood puzzle as our real gift.
Now when the gift giving time came up, they handed everyone some monopoly money and told us we were to bid on the gifts. All the gifts were wrapped, so it was the luck of the draw, whether you got the gag gift or the real gift. When the gift I got was up for auction, it was obviously a book. I thought, it's probably a cook book or a nice art book, so I bid on it.
Now before I go any further, I should mention that his family is catholic. Some practicing, some not. One cousin is extremely devout. She is also a member of Opus Dei. She held up dinner that saturday night to take her 7 lovely children to mass (which pissed off Grandma to no end, who is also quite devout).
Anyway, I open the gift and it's a book about the Pope! The whole room errupts with laughter and I hear from the corner of the room "Is that the gag gift?" and cousin says "no, that's the real gift". Now, I'm not religious, neither is Mr. Pi Phi (even though he was raised catholic), and cousin is somewhat of a joke in the family. So I have a book, that I will never read, never keep out on the coffee table, the whole family is laughing hysterically and I'm trying to be gracious and polite, because this is the firt time meeting the family.
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