Oh man, I received an utterly dreadful gift, unasked for, unsuited and unexpected.
I would really rather the person who sent it to me saved their money instead (moreso than I would usually, I don't need people to spend their dollars buying me gifts in the first place), but now I probably have to pretend to like it lest I upset them.
I mean really, said person could have paid the same amount of shipping and sent me a book of mine that I've been wanting to have in my new home for ages and thus made me very happy without buying anything new.
What was this awful item, that upset you so?
I didn't respond to this when it was posted, in order to give people time to come up with amusing suggestions. Oh well.
The gift in question is a book of cartoons. Really bad ones, that have for some reason been expensively published.
It's like the author/artist lacked even the skill required to create those stupid political cartoons newspapers tend to print, so he dropped the political part and just tried to fill the void with childish, inane "lol random" humour. Which isn't actually funny. I feel almost ashamed that this money-grubbing hack has been paid whatever ridiculous price the book sold for on my behalf. It's not worth the paper it was printed on.
Worst of all, I am apparently supposed to really like and appreciate this gift. Like, I get the feeling the person who gave it to me thought it was gonna go down well, that it was right up my alley and somehow the perfect gift for me. I'm going to make them very sad if I don't like it, and they happen to be my mother. I can either choose the guilt of telling her the gift she chose for me is lamer than a one-legged dog, or the pain of compromising my integrity by swallowing my pride and pretending to like it.
Or I could just continue as I have been, evading questions about how I like it. >.>
The book is currently sitting on my floor, staring up at me. It's awful, I didn't need this kind of stress.
Gifts are a pain.