Schoolboy Errors with presents for the Mrs :)

Pacing Mule

So I bought my wife among other things a Les Miserables DVD for Christmas. She's a big fan of musicals and had hinted heavily for this particular one. Stephens Day arrives and she sits down to watch it and enjoyed it so much she watched it again last night. I'm obviously protesting that the TV has been nabbed again for something I have little or no interest in. Friendly banter ensues about me buying it in the first place etc

Me thinking I was being smart said to her "I'm glad you actually watched this one - you still haven't watched Chicago (referring to the DVD I had bought her for Valentines day this year) to which she replies - that's because you got it for me last year as well and I watched it then.

I promptly declared here the winner :pac:

Anyone else get their presents woefully wrong at Chirstmas or Birthdays recently

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Have you only one telly and no streaming capabilities....?

tallaghtmick

that fitness dvd on her birthday......and xmas

RobbieTheRobber

tallaghtmick wrote: »

that fitness dvd on her birthday......and xmas

I reckon third time might be the charm for you mick, Valentines is next around the corner so buy her another copy!

fakearms123

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Smyth

Brool story co

fakearms123

tallaghtmick wrote: »

that fitness dvd on her birthday......and xmas

Clever username :rolleyes:, I'm going to go out on a wild guess here, jesus this guess is very wild altogether, is your name Mick and you live in Tallaght?

RobbieTheRobber

fakearms123 wrote: »

Clever username :rolleyes:, I'm going to go out on a wild guess here, jesus this guess is very wild altogether, is your name Mick and you live in Tallaght?

Now see if you can do the same with my name next!

tallaghtmick

fakearms123 wrote: »

Clever username :rolleyes:, I'm going to go out on a wild guess here, jesus this guess is very wild altogether, is your name Mick and you live in Tallaght?

yes its very simple you're a clever mannequin;)

blackdog2

Woof!

hondasam

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

So I bought my wife among other things a Les Miserables DVD for Christmas. She's a big fan of musicals and had hinted heavily for this particular one. Stephens Day arrives and she sits down to watch it and enjoyed it so much she watched it again last night. I'm obviously protesting that the TV has been nabbed again for something I have little or no interest in. Friendly banter ensues about me buying it in the first place etc

Me thinking I was being smart said to her "I'm glad you actually watched this one - you still haven't watched Chicago (referring to the DVD I had bought her for Valentines day this year) to which she replies - that's because you got it for me last year as well and I watched it then.

I promptly declared here the winner :pac:

Anyone else get their presents woefully wrong at Chirstmas or Birthdays recently

Id say you do that alot

women always win it's just that ye men can't accept it.

Pacing Mule

hondasam wrote: »

Id say you do that alot

women always win it's just that ye men can't accept it.

Ha no ! Men don't win all the time but women don't win all the time either. When you've been smacked from left field though with something like that you have to acknowledge you're fighting a losing battle

danniemcq

fakearms123 wrote: »

Clever username :rolleyes:, I'm going to go out on a wild guess here, jesus this guess is very wild altogether, is your name Mick and you live in Tallaght?

unless he is uploading something to wikileaks i think it's ok to be have a normal enough username. Poor Dbradley86 or whateverhe used

hondasam

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Ha no ! Men don't win all the time but women don't win all the time either. When you've been smacked from left field though with something like that you have to acknowledge you're fighting a losing battle

That's a win for me so

get back in the kitchen and make the dinner.

tallaghtmick

danniemcq wrote: »

unless he is uploading something to wikileaks i think it's ok to be have a normal enough username. Poor Dbradley86 or whateverhe used

its actually a standard username ive had for about 5 years now,i registered with adverts.ie 2 years ago and thought my name and location would be best suited.

Pacing Mule

hondasam wrote: »

That's a win for me so

get back in the kitchen and make the dinner.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were deliberately missing what I was referring to for comic value. The confusion arose because there was no comic value provided :pac:

Boxoffrogs

One x-mas I got an exercise bike and a full length mirror from my then boyfriend, either of which would have been fine on their own, it was the combination that was curious. Schoolboy error? Most definitely!!

danniemcq

tallaghtmick wrote: »

its actually a standard username ive had for about 5 years now,i registered with adverts.ie 2 years ago and thought my name and location would be best suited.

Quite possibly the best reason for a username on boards!

Anyway on topic worst I done was decide to get blue denby glasses and bowls and plates to match the ones my Ma had at home as presents one Christmas. (she had kept saying how great it would be to complete a table set) So I bought them had them all carefully wrapped and brought the whole way from Galway on the bus with me and hid them in the house so it would be a complete shock and boy was it. Turns out the plates which I had been using for 3 years before I moved weren’t blue but green.

hondasam

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were deliberately missing what I was referring to for comic value. The confusion arose because there was no comic value provided :pac:

Thanks

Im not confused at all.

kowloon

Not the Mrs, but a good while back I bought a DVD for a girl I was seeing for Christmas. They were quite expensive and new at the time.
She was very happy with it and thanked me and all, but she then handed me my present, which was a good bit bigger.
It was a DVD player and a selection of DVDs to play on it .

If I even make my millions I will be buying her a house to allay the guilt.

theboss80

diddledum wrote: »

One x-mas I got an exercise bike and a full length mirror from my then boyfriend, either of which would have been fine on their own, it was the combination that was curious. Schoolboy error? Most definitely!!

ooooh akward


Which one did he give you first?

Boxoffrogs

theboss80 wrote: »

ooooh akward


Which one did he give you first?

The bike. I must add that the two were on my wishlist, particularly the mirror which was beautiful and I had been eyeing it up for a while. But putting them together as a package seemed a bit wrong. He took a right slagging for it. I daresay he thinks more carefully about presents now. Although he did buy me something this Christmas which I intend to keep boxed and maybe pass it on to someone else as a present

Coriolanus

hondasam wrote: »

Id say you do that alot

women always win it's just that ye men can't accept it.

Tell that to Rihanna.

Rhamiel

A girlfriend told me before how she really wanted the Peter Pan live action movie but couldnt find it anywhere and that they seemed to have stopped being produced... So one Christmas I of course duly and valiantly tracked down a copy and then to make the suprise all the more and as a little joke put the dvd into an Arnold Schwarzegger dvd case before wrapping it up

When it came to her opening it she just stare blankly at the cover then smiled the most awkward smile ever and said thanks and gave me a hug :pac:

Rockery Woman

Years ago I bought a boyfriend a cd player, Ben-Sherman shirt (ok - it was the 90's), Hugo Boss aftershave, and some cd's.

He hadnt given me anything for Valentines Day, or my Birthday so I wasnt expecting much for Christmas.

So after thanking me profusely for the expensive presents, he gives me an envelope. Looked like it was in the pocket for a while, bit crumpled and all. So I opened it and inside was £100 cash. Nice. But looked again in the envelope and there was his wages slip. Lazy git! Didnt even stick the cash into a card for me.

He is still single... ah well!