Originally Posted by
Shwa Girl
Ok. Maybe not what you were expecting Mr. Danger, but the worst gift was money.
As a kid, we would get a birthday card with $5,$10,$20. What makes it the worst gift was what the parents made us do.
1. The gift must go in the bank. We must walk to the bank and the kid must go up to the teller to deposit.
2. A thank you card must follow immediately. It must have a hand written comment. It was hard for kids to think of what to write.
3. If parents and kid forgot the card, we must immediately pick up the phone to call to apologize and to thank the giver for the gift. This resulted in a 20 minute conversation about how is school and how big you are getting. For a kid, 20 minutes on the phone with this conversation was torture.
4. We never got to spend the money on cheap candy and junk -- just what a kid wants to do. Parents said, everything we needed, they would provide -- this meant things like broccoli.
Wasn't I an ungrateful chid?:P