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My dad gives Represents! (Cheap Asshole!)
I'm curently mad enough to eat a steel beam and crap thumbtacks!The is my mom's birthday. We, us kids (All five of us) each got her something nice, though the dynamic differed based on our financial and taste positions. The point is, we each tried our best to Get her something.
Our dad gave her a very very nice pair of boots.
The REASON I know they are a very very nice pair is that *I* gave them to our Grandmother for a gift about two yrs ago (Nanna has been dead about a yr now and the boots were in a box in our basement.)
The point is, my fucking dad ALWAYS does this shit to everyone! For christmas, a "gift" for my brothers is either something of his (Dad's) that he no longer wants, doesn't fit him anymore or he picks up at the local funeral home (they sometimes have suits and he knows the guy in charge.)
Or, occationally, dad will go out, by something HE wants (in his size, color, style) and then "borrow" it back after the fact. (Last yr he gave my other brother a tie collection and when my brother - who Never wears ties - told the old man what he could do with it, our dad elected to keep the "gift" for himself.
For us girls, well, now that grandmother died, for gifts he has been cleaning out her home of clothes, rings, necklaces appliances and other crap.
I am REALLY sick of him. (In general I think that when a person hits 70 they should be put to death, but he is making me re-evaluate my term limits downward.)
REALLY PISSED OFF HERE!
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I mean even a five dollar fake necklace would be nice!
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I'm with you! It would annoy me too but I would put it in perspective. You make an effort to really try and it seems your father puts very little effort into picking a gift, virtually none. Hence, you are irritated and disgusted. Try to see, we expect others to contribute on the same level we put forth but such thinking is just not real. Life doesn't work that way and life habits/efforts are not distributed 50/50. I would take a guess that your father contributes in other ways such as providing for the family financially, just a guess. A lot of fathers are downright poor in selecting appropriate gifts and spending time in it, often they just don't place the same emphasis of importance on it as others do. Many feel less obligated to emphasize the role of gift giving as they have others to fill in.
So, yes, you are right to be annoyed as hell, but I would let it slide and sometimes we just have to accept that is the way the person is, will always be, something we can't go about changing nor should you try to do so.
Remember, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.