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!