Biggest Present Letdowns!

[gunsage]

Okay okay...I'm more interested in what everyone elses' experiences have been, mostly because mine are just...ehh. Here goes...

One time my Dad had wrapped me a package that suspiciously seemed to be about the same size as a NES box. I was CONVINCED it was a game. Nope, it was a book. I can't even remember what it was, honestly.

I had gone on and on and ON about how much I loved Wave Race 64. Right around Christmas the first year the N64 had come out, there really weren't a lot of titles yet. In fact, for those that don't remember, only Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64 were out for the launch and Wave Race 64 came around about 3 months later. In any case, there were maybe 10 games out for the N64...and a package that DEFINITELY looked like a game. "Wave Race! Wave Race! It's GOTTA be Wave Race!" I remember thinking. Nope...Cruisin' USA. MEH.

That's about all I can remember at the moment. Yes, I am a whiner. Anyway, how about everyone else?

[Plaidman]

Hmm. Only one I can really remember is one year for my 8th birthday, I remember telling everyone I just wanted Ninja Turtles.

I got 9 turtles action figures.



All Ralphael.

[blas]

I've told this before, but it's ridONKulous and bears repeating.

My great uncle and his drill sergeant of a wife hate little girls with a passion (well, most of the people on my mother's side of the family do). It's the thought that counts with presents, and their thoughts were pretty much nonexistent.

My little brother got a brand new gun. I got a candle holder in the shape of a squirrel BUT there was a half melted candle inside of it already.

[gunsage]

All Ralphael.
Sounds like an incomplete present. They should've included these (http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product_stock.php?productid=28). :lol:

[Dreamstalker]

I want that shirt now.

My grandmother has been known for spoiling my cousins rotten (and they're the last people who need it) and both her and my aunt have been generally clueless about what to get me. The year I started college, my aunt got me...notebooks and pens :confused:

About 2 years ago my grandmother gave me...catalogs and junk-mail freebies, tossed into a shopping bag that had to have been older than me. Prior years I've gotten hideous sweaters, a (fugly) wolf vanity license plate (WTF I don't even drive, yes it has wolves on it BUT...)

I've stated repeatedly: if you don't know what to get me, cash or gift cards to my favorite stores will do just as well. The world will not end if you straight-up ask me what I want :rolleyes:

[Misanthropical]

I have mentioned this before, but for my birthday a few years ago, my aunts gave me Christmas ornaments.

Yes, I have a December birthday, but come on! Those who know me (like my aunts) know I hate anything Christmas on my birthday.

They are usually my very favorite aunts, and usually give me the coolest gifts, so I don't know what came over them that year.

[chops]

I hope this doesn't turn out to be a letdown in the long run, but my dad seemed disappointed in a gift I just gave him for his birthday today, in spite of the fact that it's not what it seems.

I gave him a copy of the Beastie Boys' new CD, The Mix-Up, because I thought he'd appreciate their instrumental works. (This is from the same person who asked me to get him a Chemical Brothers CD.) So I show him the CD, and he assumes it's one of their regular CDs, and his face just turned to absolute disappointment. I had to spend the next ten minutes explaining that this CD is not what he thinks it is, and played a track to prove it.

Like I said, he may not be let down in the long run, but the presentation didn't go well.

[AnqeiicDemise]

I was fifteen. It was my birthday. My old tv was on the fritz.

I wanted a tv.

I got a box the size of a tv. It was as heavy as tv. The box was for a tv.

I could feel my hearbeat race and my face turn into a wicked grin. New TV, YAY!

Then I tore open the box. There were clothes. Tons and tons and tons of clothes for me.

I've never been so dissapointed in my life with a present.

was it because it was no tv?

WRONG!

It was because at fifteen, I was a tomboy. And tomboys don't wear skirts or fancy shirts, or girly little pants. Tomboys don't dress like mini versions of their mommies and they certainly don't wear make up. (which, by the way, that birthday party was a total ambush for me to 'girly' up. EVERY present was either perfumes, mirrors, make up or girly outfits.)

I couldn't hide the dissapointment. I got up and ran to the bathroom crying. Mom couldn't get it.

Dad came up to me later that day and gave me his old tools for me to keep. Now THAT made me happy.

[Slayergrrl]

I got luggage for my 10th birthday.. I thought my parents wanted me to go away. I was devastated. Turns out my Mom thought I could use some cool luggage when I went to visit my Dad. I still bring it up every birthday :lol:

[sportsmom]

When I was a kid my parents always let me open one present on Christmas Eve night. When I was 13 all I wanted was a portable stereo with a cassette player (hey! Don't make fun of me because I'm old!). There was this very intriguing box under the tree that I thought just had to be something really cool, though. It was about 8" square and very heavy and it thumped when you turned it. I decided to open that box, and imagine my upset when the box contained.....

batteries and a pair of socks.



My mother almost wet herself laughing at me.


Luckily I got the stereo the next morning.

[Chanlin]

My parents were never very well to do when I was growing up. Dad was a new teacher and mom didn't work. Dad also had a second job to help make ends meet. So we got a Nintendo when I was 7 because I had seen one at my aunt and uncles and both me and my sister thought it was the coolest thing (we had never seen a video game before this). So every year we got one new game each to pick out. Eventually my sister lost interest in video games so it was down to me to pick out one game of my own and they would buy my sister a gift roughly equal in value. I think the biggest Christmas let down was the year I didn't get a video game but a chess set instead.

In retrospect I would have loved that gift now since I'm into just about anything that is a game.

[FuzzyKitten99]

When DH & I were still dating, when we got to Senior year, we actually *kind of* were engaged, but not officially. He hadn't really proposed yet, but we talked about getting married, and he had me pick the ring out, and he put it on layaway (we were only 18 and still only working PT jobs) and said that when he had it paid off, he would pop the actual question in the most romantic way he could think of.

So, about 6 months after I picked out the ring, I am getting ready to go down to his house after school. He calls me up and says he has something for me, but it was a surprise. Immediately, my mind went to the ring-come on, your's would too. So I started asking all sorts of questions like is it something shiny, something that I can show other people, etc. All of which he answered and I still kept thinking the ring.

When I get down there, he told me to wait, and he'd go get the surprise.

It wasn't the ring. It was a headlight for my truck to replace the one that had burnt out the week before, and I had to wait until I got paid from my job to replace it. I got a little upset as he acted like he just gave me the keys to a new car or something. I asked him if this was a joke, he said no. I can't remember too much of the conversation, and he did get mad, thinking I was being spoiled, however when I told him to look at it from my perspective, that a surprise gift of a headlight then taunting me about it, acting like it was the most-wanted gift of the season is SO not cool, especially when I had been dying to wear my ring since I spotted it in the store. He then apologized and said he didn't think about it like that.

It has been an inside joke with us for a while now, and as all of our friends have heard the story (they all side with me of course, that what he did was in bad taste), so when Christmas or any kind of gift-giving occasion rolls around, we joke about getting random car parts to be funny.

He proposed in front of everyone at Senior Prom, BTW.