Buy me a coffee?
As we get older, buying Christmas presents becomes a chore and when you reach retirement years, for many, it’s a royal pain. Spending time to finding the perfect gift, not knowing if they will like it anyway or re-gift it instead, fighting the crowds in stores, or hoping it arrives on time (and in one piece) if ordered online…
Last Christmas, Grandpa was feeling his age, and found that shopping for Christmas gifts had become too difficult. So he decided to send cheques to everyone instead.
In each card he wrote, “Buy your own present!” and mailed them early.
He enjoyed the usual flurry of family festivities, and it was only after the holiday that he noticed that he had received very few cards in return. Puzzled over this, he went into his study, intending to write a couple of his relatives and ask what had happened. It was then, as he cleared off his cluttered desk that he got his answer. Under a stack of papers, he was horrified to find the gift cheques which he had forgotten to enclose with the cards…
Moral of the story:
Sometimes, the intention was completely different than the way the message was received.
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