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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Motivational calendar...

Thanks mom

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

XXL pajamas. I'm a medium bordering on small so I was swimming in them.

I think I also got a video game for a console I didn't have but the gesture was nice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My mother got me Rogaine for my birthday last year. Pretty rude and uncalled for I felt but now I've stopped cutting it and have the longest hair I've ever had so I guess she hit a nerve with that one

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

A box of Mario fruit snacks when I was a kid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

one of my buddies got a mtn dew. thats it

another got a playstation gift card, which would have been good but he didnt have a playstation

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

PTSD on the hoops I had to go through to get the Xbox gift card my kid received one year into Minecraft coins. We don't have an Xbox, it was... Tricky at the time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've always been a computer/theatre nerd. When I was a teen my parents bought me a bike. I did not express nor have any interest in a bike, but I'm sure my mom felt I needed to go outside more and spend less time on the computer. A week or two later while upset at me about something else she complained that I haven't even used my new bike yet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (7 children)

That sounds a bit petty from you, at least from my POV.

No matter how nerdy you are, going outside is healtht, both physically and mentally. They got you a nice gift, IMO.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Bro upset his parents told him to be healthy and touch grass.

Lenny moment

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Rum flavoured spirit drink.. Twice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

In middle school, there was this one super unpopular girl that gifted me acne medication for Christmas.... Unprompted. We weren't even friends and yes, I had acne problems like most teens did.

I never bullied anyone in my life before and since, but I did that year.... This was why she was so unpopular. The year after, she called 1 of the 2 only black kids the N word, got her ass kicked and either removed or expelled from school.

I have no idea why anyone would go around picking fights, especially with no friends to begin with. Before anyone asks, no, no mental health issues.

Edit: I also wasnt "popular" and had very little friends too. I mean, it wasnt right either way to turn bully either but I was young

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even negative attention is better than no attention for some. Good chance she had a pretty bad home life, poor girl.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

One of the harshest lessons I've ever had to learn, especially as someone who struggled socially growing up, is that some people don't have any friends for a good reason

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