ocg's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the Grinch didn't like his present. There's nothing quite so... what's the right word? Devastating?, humiliating?, humbling?, crushing?, emabrrassing?, sad? ...as buying a present for your partner of over six years, your husband of over three, thinking it will be his dream, that he'll love it, that it will be everything he never asked for because it's just for him, and he would never get it for himself, right? And then bragging to your friends, his family, and coworkers, that it's the PERFECT gift, oh, it's just what he'll want, he'll just be SO EXCITED! Even your best friend will tell you, after the fact, "Well, from everything I know about him, he should have LOVED it." (Maybe that's why she's your best friend, though.) And then, Christmas morning, having him cackle (yes, my preeties, he cackled) in disbelief before realizing that wasn't the expected reaction, and pseudo-covered while his family was there, and the sweet baboo, he lied to you for almost 24 hours to spare your feelings. And you knew, you just knew, that when he played, "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" (that your MOTHER BOUGHT HIM!) (I KNOW!) all Christmas evening rather than touch your gift, that it wasn't the right gift, and that he didn't, "really like it, babe, but just wasn't expecting it." You knew it was the WRONG gift. And everything he got you was perfect, really, and SO thoughtful- I mean, he got you the SHOES! THE SHOES! (no, really, THE SHOES!) that you wanted (and you told him the wrong size, but it WORKED OUT FINE), and a new wooden spoon, so he really DID listen to you when you talked to him repeatedly almost a year ago about loving really, really nice wooden spoons, and the Cat Butt Plate that you laughed and laughed about over a year ago, and that you secretly coveted, and never told him you really wanted, but he just knew. Yes, my friends, there's a big pile of shame that you rack up when this happens... and you know that this will always be the year you gave him the gift he didn't like. And such Sadness. I'm not a really emotionally expressive person, but the Sadness? It is still in my heart. But there is also the Hopefulness, because he finally did come out and tell you that no, he really didn't like it. And he didn't want to hurt your feelings, and oh, how I cried, and he cried, too, but it's ok, really, because at least he was (eventually) honest, and you want him to have something he'll really, really like.
WHY IN THE FUCK DID YOU MAKE ME HAVE KARAOKE AT OUR WEDDING IF YOU DIDN'T LIKE IT ENOUGH TO WANT YOUR OWN MACHINE? That is all. 12:55 a.m. - 2004-12-28 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
||||||
|
||||||