By stupidpplsuck - 15/09/2016 08:41 - United States - Seaside

Today, it's my birthday. The only gift I got was a book on the history of cancers. Not the illness, the zodiac sign. I'm a Virgo. I don't even like astrology. FML
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stupidpplsuck 33

op here i wouldn't have cared about not getting a gift at all, especially since money is a little tight right now. But the fact that there was a gift and it was something that doesn't really pertain to me or my interests is was got me a little down. I'm still gonna read it and I appreciate the thought, but I would have preferred just a card or something.

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Tripartita 44

And there you were, getting your hopes up about the prospect of reading a book documenting the history of an insidious disease, complete with pictures and early accounts from grieving folk who had lost loved ones. My condolences, OP. Wait…

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sweetpotato301 7

Good for you? People who have grown up to expect birthday presents can turn out alright too y'know.

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Fairyjoshy 13

Sometimes getting somebody nothing is better than giving them an obviously poorly-thought out gift. On one hand, they don't care. On the other hand, they STILL don't care but now you're forced into thanking them.

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xx000o 27

It sounds like reregift that sat in someone's closet for quite awhile.

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stupidpplsuck 33

OK, so this was a gift from my sibling. They didn't mean anything mean about it. In fact they had thought it was actually a book about the history of the disease because they didn't research it very well. They thought I would like it because my profession is in a medical field and I've always been interested in the history of medicine and how illnesses have evolved over time. It was an honest mistake that we all got a bit of a laugh about. Also I did end up getting another gift, a box of chocolates which 'just happened' to be half dark chocolate which I hate but everyone else loves which means they split those and I got all the milk chocolate ones.

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manuwish 9

things like that always have a wonderful potential, imagine everything that could happen while you sit at a bus stop with a box of chocolates you don't want to eat bringing a book you don't want to read to a open-air book market or a garden sale..the people you could meet or the funny situations that could occur..by chance or error, a situation comes up that otherwise never would've been..let the magic of life happen :)

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