The Merry Christmas and Happy New Year thread

[Rían]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

I have an extremely tricksy family. They effectively tricked me into getting my own New Year gift this year. I occasionally have gotten my own gift before, if the others won't have enough know-how about the specific thing I want, or won't have time to get it, but I've never been tricked into it. And of course I fell for it all the way.

So my mum comes up to me two weeks ago and says she wants to get something for my dad but needs my help because she doesn't know what all the specifications do. So I go with her, visit several stores, compare products, explain tech specs, write down models, spend hours at home looking up models and packages. All while my dad is out of the room so he doesn't get wind of things. Eventually I end up picking something I think will work for him, go to the shop, buy it and end up dragging the giant box home on a rickety caddy across a slippery sidewalk through 10 cm of snow. Then have the thing take up space in my room for a week, covered with a blanket and with a note 'top sicrit, no peeking'.

I even buy my dad a smaller effigy in candy so I don't have to pack the whole box in paper. (Now I know why my mother wasn't quite as enthusiastic about that idea as she would have been...) I only suspected something like twenty seconds before being presented with the very thing I spend all that time acquiring for my dad. And of course everybody was in on it, expect for me.

I have an awesome family, but they're very tricksy.

That is just SO great, it deserves to be quoted in full!

Yay family and enjoy your new computer, Earniel!