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RE: Most Awkward Presents
March 11, 2014 at 12:24 am
(March 11, 2014 at 12:16 am)futilethewinds Wrote: What's the most awkward present you've ever gotten?
My mom once got me what she thought was an interactive horror B-movie. It was actually interactive horror porn. Then, we watched it together. I will never get those images out of my head. One of the last scenes shows a chick fucking another chick to death with a katana. 
I never had an awkward present really but my dad and I once rented out the modern version of "psycho" and it was ridiculously embarrassing watching the scene where hes masturbating while watching the girl through a hole in the wall while my dad was there.
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RE: Most Awkward Presents
March 11, 2014 at 12:28 am
My cousin once got a present from one of our 'eccentric' (ie, crazy as hell) aunts which really made us wonder. It was a box of walnuts packed around a white styrofoam mannequin head. We were never sure if the walnuts were packing material for the foam head, or if the foam head was filler for the box of nuts.
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RE: Most Awkward Presents
March 11, 2014 at 10:40 am
This is more embarrassing than awkward but when I was like eight or nine years old my family threw me a birthday party at Red Robins and I was eagerly tearing through all my gifts, holding them up so everyone could see them as you do. So I got to the gift my aunt gave me and it turned out to be frilly underwear from some kind of pre-teen Victoria's Secret. I held them up before I realized what they were and was mortified.
But, honestly? Who buys that kind of underwear for a kid who's not even a double-digit age yet?
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RE: Most Awkward Presents
March 11, 2014 at 10:42 am
Every girly present as a child. Barbies, dresses, etc. Awkward pretending to be happy when misgendered.
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RE: Most Awkward Presents
March 11, 2014 at 11:37 am
I never got an awkward gift, but I've sure given some. When we moved for the last time before my dad retired from the Navy, we moved into a neighborhood that really stretched my parents financially, but they wanted us in the best schools. (For which I thank them today) So we had NO money. Like ever. So when I got invited to birthday parties, my mom gave me $5 to get my friends presents. This gets you embarrassing presents for a 13 y.o. to give to his rich ass friends. We're sitting around a table in the $2+mil home of my friend when everyone has gotten him bad ass Super Soakers and video games and bitchin' Lego sets, and I got him a 100 piece puzzle for a toddler. Mortifying.
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RE: Most Awkward Presents
March 11, 2014 at 11:56 am
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Nothing too awkward. My parents hate sports, but know I like soccer. I like Manchester City FC of the English premier League. Once, my mother thought Manchester nly had one team, so she got the first t-shirt she saw with "Manchester" on it, and it was for Manchester United, a nearby rival. As well, I sent my parents a hint link for a poster of City of Manchester Stadium, where Man City play, and somehow it directed to a long sleeve Chealsea FC t-shirt. Comfy shirt, but when you're a Cubs fan, you're likely not a White Sox fan, to put it in baseball terms.
ETA: Oh, and one time in maybe the early 90's, I got three identical homework planners. From different family members. During I time I struggled in school.
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RE: Most Awkward Presents
March 16, 2014 at 9:56 pm
Not so much awkward as stupid.
One of my very religious aunts bought me a bible for Christmas a number of years ago, and she knows I'm an atheist.
In return I bought her a copy of God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
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