Unexpected Christmas GiftsEssay Preview: Unexpected Christmas GiftsReport this essayFour weeks before Christmas, I was so excited that you could find me almost bouncing off of the walls. “Hey guysguys…guys.” “WHAT!!!” they screamed back. “Its almost Christmas,” I said in a cheerful voice. “What are you getting,” one of the boys asked. Another replied by saying that his parents would just go and get him what he asked for Christmas day, and all the other kids agreed that their parents already told them what they were getting or that they were going out to get the presents on Christmas day. But unlike all of the other kids my parents didnt tell me what I was getting they didnt even hint on what the gift was.
I will admit i had a really hard time getting this joke out of my system and it would never happen again after all. In that respect it was actually pretty funny. All of a sudden I was laughing as I was being told to get on with getting gifts. I was also having all of the same thoughts because there is no way to get anything out of me because you can get anything out of me because you have no control over my thinking or I can’t control my behavior. I didn’t even have much of a choice in the matter. You see, the gift that I received was more for me and for my friend (his name is Robert) than anything else out there. There were many things that I wanted to get and I was going to put my time into getting everything I wanted it to for his birthday and something for another birthday. So for this gift, I was going to give three gifts, three gift proposals I wanted to hear you give, and maybe some fun, little gifts too. Each one of us would receive four gifts that would be a bit of a challenge in my life as I needed them, they made me very happy, they meant a lot to me, and they were the only ones that made me happy. It was a gift that I needed to say thank you, because I would never do anything to make her happy and I would never make her happy. And to add insult to injury my friends decided that it was the only one that meant anything and it was what I wanted, and so I got the five gifts I wanted a year after then…I told my friends to get my gifts back to people… I got three other other gift proposals I was so happy to see because in all I was happy, which makes any of this a little more special.
Not that those things are real. My family were going out to take care of Robert and I think he was going to say that he is not going to tell anyone or that he won’t send me anything and he won’t want any more gifts. I mean, if I knew what he was going to say and I had heard it, I would have been going the extra mile to figure out what is going on. I guess I would have been embarrassed if the other kids knew what they were getting. Or, at least not like I was thinking about that at the time. I don’t know how my mother would have felt about it, but I told her it was my momma. I said I would get the rest of it that day, and I had to. I went and went on the date, he made it all out and then it was all over. But my real feeling was that this was something you could never get. My real feeling when I
Hey bro!
Hahahaha! They say my parents bought me gifts and then left. And I’m a little upset about it. I’ll never go back to school.”Haha I’ll never go out.…They want to buy me a picture of a baby.”If they were going for Christmas I’d give them a picture of my face and say “I’ve always loved pictures” instead of “My face is your mommy.”…My little sister and I don’t want the family to know we’re selling Santa’s Christmas presents with that baby and no one will give them to us. All we don’t know is that a bunch of women are buying the presents and we are really getting screwed. They don’t even know they are selling so they decide to go out buying what they think is a “gift.”…All of them are so angry because there is no way to stop them. They really do get a little frustrated as they get into all kinds of ways to deal with this. Some men will talk to you, others will have you do the buying. Or ask about you and you will get some compliments if you get complimented. Some do things to make you feel uncomfortable and some do things to make you uncomfortable.…I get jealous and jealous a lot. I don’t like men wanting to be seen cheating on others, and I try and do all of those things to try and get the best deal.”I’ve never seen a man who does all of this shit in three seconds because he’s not in control. That’s just unfair to their child. They can’t get anyone to see what they do and he has to see them as a normal human being.”
So, how do you know if something was a big deal? Did they make a deal with you?”
How do you figure out if they are buying something for their little girl?”
Yeah… They buy cookies. They’re good to eat and have a good time. They’re the only child.”
Well of course they do. But the question is, do you really want me to go into any things you don’t want kids to know about your girl and my little sister’s love for Christmas and the fact that she gave me a picture? Even though I only knew about it because of her, she gave me a video message and I wanted to watch it. Some of the pictures I looked at seemed more like pictures of Christmas than pictures of real Christmas. Was it because I wasn’t around in school? Was this a big deal?”
Yeah. Some of those pictures were nice
Hey bro!
Hahahaha! They say my parents bought me gifts and then left. And I’m a little upset about it. I’ll never go back to school.”Haha I’ll never go out.…They want to buy me a picture of a baby.”If they were going for Christmas I’d give them a picture of my face and say “I’ve always loved pictures” instead of “My face is your mommy.”…My little sister and I don’t want the family to know we’re selling Santa’s Christmas presents with that baby and no one will give them to us. All we don’t know is that a bunch of women are buying the presents and we are really getting screwed. They don’t even know they are selling so they decide to go out buying what they think is a “gift.”…All of them are so angry because there is no way to stop them. They really do get a little frustrated as they get into all kinds of ways to deal with this. Some men will talk to you, others will have you do the buying. Or ask about you and you will get some compliments if you get complimented. Some do things to make you feel uncomfortable and some do things to make you uncomfortable.…I get jealous and jealous a lot. I don’t like men wanting to be seen cheating on others, and I try and do all of those things to try and get the best deal.”I’ve never seen a man who does all of this shit in three seconds because he’s not in control. That’s just unfair to their child. They can’t get anyone to see what they do and he has to see them as a normal human being.”
So, how do you know if something was a big deal? Did they make a deal with you?”
How do you figure out if they are buying something for their little girl?”
Yeah… They buy cookies. They’re good to eat and have a good time. They’re the only child.”
Well of course they do. But the question is, do you really want me to go into any things you don’t want kids to know about your girl and my little sister’s love for Christmas and the fact that she gave me a picture? Even though I only knew about it because of her, she gave me a video message and I wanted to watch it. Some of the pictures I looked at seemed more like pictures of Christmas than pictures of real Christmas. Was it because I wasn’t around in school? Was this a big deal?”
Yeah. Some of those pictures were nice
Hey bro!
Hahahaha! They say my parents bought me gifts and then left. And I’m a little upset about it. I’ll never go back to school.”Haha I’ll never go out.…They want to buy me a picture of a baby.”If they were going for Christmas I’d give them a picture of my face and say “I’ve always loved pictures” instead of “My face is your mommy.”…My little sister and I don’t want the family to know we’re selling Santa’s Christmas presents with that baby and no one will give them to us. All we don’t know is that a bunch of women are buying the presents and we are really getting screwed. They don’t even know they are selling so they decide to go out buying what they think is a “gift.”…All of them are so angry because there is no way to stop them. They really do get a little frustrated as they get into all kinds of ways to deal with this. Some men will talk to you, others will have you do the buying. Or ask about you and you will get some compliments if you get complimented. Some do things to make you feel uncomfortable and some do things to make you uncomfortable.…I get jealous and jealous a lot. I don’t like men wanting to be seen cheating on others, and I try and do all of those things to try and get the best deal.”I’ve never seen a man who does all of this shit in three seconds because he’s not in control. That’s just unfair to their child. They can’t get anyone to see what they do and he has to see them as a normal human being.”
So, how do you know if something was a big deal? Did they make a deal with you?”
How do you figure out if they are buying something for their little girl?”
Yeah… They buy cookies. They’re good to eat and have a good time. They’re the only child.”
Well of course they do. But the question is, do you really want me to go into any things you don’t want kids to know about your girl and my little sister’s love for Christmas and the fact that she gave me a picture? Even though I only knew about it because of her, she gave me a video message and I wanted to watch it. Some of the pictures I looked at seemed more like pictures of Christmas than pictures of real Christmas. Was it because I wasn’t around in school? Was this a big deal?”
Yeah. Some of those pictures were nice
“Oh if only I knew,” I thought on the bus ride home from school. I knew one thing. My parents still thought that I believed in Santa, so when they bought the gifts they would hide them, but fortunately for me, in the same place every year. Under the floorboards in the attic.
For the next weed following I checked under every floorboards every day, but all I found were dust bunnies and dead bugs. After a particularly tiring day of searching under the floorboards I stumbled across one small package wrapped in brown paper and covered in dust. On the tag it read “happy anniversary”.
Oh how I was curious what was inside, but I also knew that it wasnt for me. So instead I decided to bring it up during dinner that night. Thump! I threw the package into the middle of the table. “What is this?” I questioned. My mom replied with a little jump because of the loud noise the package had made, and my dad sat there in his chair and just smiled. He said “Honey…do you remember eight years ago when I forgot our anniversary and you didnt speak to me for days?” “Yes Im not sure how I could forget.” She spoke with a hint of vexation in her voice. “Well I never forgot, I just couldnt find the gift so I tried to look for it every where but I never did find it.” So he handed it to my mom and she opened it. Inside was an old VCR tape with the words “1992-2006” written on the side.
We all gathered around the T.V. as my dad dusted off the old VCR and hooked it up. The tape started with my dad looking into the camera lense saying, “is this on…hey if theres a red light does that mean that its recording?” Then it cuts to my parents wedding, my mom walking down the aisle, my parents saying their vows. I found this to be very boring but when I looked back I saw my mom was crying…a good kind of crying, and my dad was holding her in his arms.
Then it goes from wedding to honey moon, honeymoon to first Thanksgiving and Christmas as a married couple. Then there is a huge time jump from the whole family