Maria Gabriela Mendez
One of the best things about Christmas are the presents, and yeah all the giving is nice, but I’m more into the receiving. I love to destroy the wrapping paper when opening a gift, just to find out what I got. I love playing Secret Santa, but there’s always that one person that gets a really bad gift, I hate when that’s me.
I’m always the girl who’s super excited about the game and puts a lot of effort picking the perfect gift, I mean the details are important. I always look up for ideas on how to make the coolest wrapping. But I’m also disappointed since my Secret Santa always sucks. Now, I don’t want to make you sad with my stories, but I’m about to put your feet on the ground about gift expectations with these 10 stories of people who received awful Secret Santa presents. These following comments were posted at the BuzzFeed Community.
10. A stolen gift.
“I got a sticky mouse someone stole from a school computer.”
9. How about a lesson?
“I was 18 or 19, working as a telemarketer, never heard of Secret Santa, so I was hyped up and so excited. I got my person an awesome gift based on their interests and then it was my turn to open my gift and it was a $5 gift card to the mall. That’s it. The guy that got me the gift told me his girlfriend wouldn’t let him buy me a better gift. It was good though because I learned a valuable lesson about not dating an asshole who is jealous of a co-worker that you haven’t spoken to outside of work.”
8. Maybe this is the one thing she needed.
“Once, my best friend in school received a hug as a Secret Santa present.”
7. When your expectations were just too high.
“I waited and waited, but I got nothing so I was really upset. Eventually, the girl that had me comes up and says, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry. I completely forgot to bring your gift but I’ll bring it tomorrow — it’s from Thailand, I’m sure you’ll like it.’ So of course, I’m thinking something cool, especially since it’s from Thailand, but I was so wrong. The next day, she comes up to me and whips out a NAIL CLIPPER and it wasn’t even cool — it was just a regular nail clipper that said ‘made in Thailand’ on the bottom.”
6. No present.
“Nothing, because my Secret Santa was in jail.”
5. I would have loved this one.
“I got three giant bags of Reese’s peanut butter cups, but I am severely allergic to peanuts.”
4. A confusing gift.
“A butt plug. Thought it was a wine stopper at first. Then I realized I was standing in the middle of a circle of 25 people holding a butt plug in the air.”
3. In case of emergency.
“A small pack of ‘to-go’ band-aids, and it was already opened and one was missing.”
2. When they truly know you.
“Someone once gave me napkins because they noticed I was a messy eater.”
1. Debts.
“A $20 gift card. Went to use it and the cashier said there was nothing on it. I ended up paying for my own gift.”
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