What's the worst 'Homer Bowling Ball' gift you've ever received?

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Das Boo: Jun 9, 2011; There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

A friend have my sister a plastic Halloween bucket of Dollar Store poo poo. I remember police tape, a fuzzy pen that didn't work and some disposable chopsticks. She then said, "Oh, I bought those for myself." and took back the chopsticks.

My sister thought it was so low effort it became hysterical.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2021 01:43

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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 03:37

Das Boo: Jun 9, 2011; There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

The Bloop posted:

A handmade thing that was very thoughtful but goddamn terrible so it created an extremely awkward set of social circumstances

I still think decades later that it may have been a test

I respectfully request elaboration.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2021 03:00

Das Boo: Jun 9, 2011; There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

The Bloop posted:

Handmade gift intended to be displayed and used, sort of a corkboard/ stuff holder situation. Made by the person who was essentially my first SO. It was horribly ugly but it was obvious that a lot of, if not effort or skill, at least time went into it.

I had to display it and use it because anything else would obviously be relationship suicide. I always suspected for some reason that there was a chance that it was bad ON PURPOSE to see how I would react, to see if I would be nice about it or not, you know? Probably not I guess, but I thought so even then and I guess I will never know for sure.

Definitely not a Homer Bowling Ball situation with a gift for themselves, but a stressful gift to receive

It's always a nightmare to get a display piece that's extremely bad/not your taste. You done good, either way.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2021 17:17

Das Boo: Jun 9, 2011; There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.

I brought a raccoon skull (from an oddities shop) to a work White Elephant with a coworker in mind. The person who opened it looked confused as all gently caress, then a different coworker ended up stealing it.

Same thing happened when I brought in a fish fossil to a different White Elephant. I don't know who could dislike a fish fossil, but the opener sure did.

If you work at me, there gonna be bones and rocks at your WE.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2021 00:20

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