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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: frankie on 01 Dec, 2021, 10:07:56 am

Title: Xmas pressies?
Post by: frankie on 01 Dec, 2021, 10:07:56 am
What was the very worst present you were ever given on the 25th and why?
Mine was a large doll (I subsequently learned my father had won it in a raffle), which walked and talked!  As anyone who knows me will tell you I HATE dolls with faces, so to have one which also talked in an automated voice really freaked me out.  It was ages before I didn't wake up yelling after nightmares.  Needless to say, it was given to a more deserving person and was the first my parents knew of my phobia which remains to this day...
Title: Re: Xmas pressies?
Post by: Judi_bk on 01 Dec, 2021, 02:58:18 pm
I remember the ones that delighted me but none that I hated.  The delights were, a walking doll, a hand made red wooden sledge with my name written on it, a second hand bike that Dad had lovingly restored and painted my favourite colour, the hair curler that all my friends wanted