Posted Feb 16, 2005 by Mu Beta
A vaguely related anecdote.
I went out on 22nd December last year to get all my Christmas shopping. It wasn't too busy, and I quickly picked up all the requisite requests: an electric toothbrush for my Mum, the LOTR DVD for my brother, a bottle of scotch for my stepfather (a posh one that comes in a metal tube), and so on. I also, remembering that I had used my supplies the week before, bought another can of de-icer for the car. I came in and dumped all the shopping bags ready for Odo to do the wrapping (she enjoys it, bless her).
Only when my car froze over on Christmas Eve did I realise that we were within 24 hours of giving my stepfather a can of de-icer. It was exactly the same shape and size as the whisky, and Odo had got carried away and wrapped everything. 
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Posted Feb 16, 2005 by KerrAvon - Regret is a part of life. But keep it a small part.
And for Heaven's sake don't do the classic 'buy everyone CDs wrap them and then spend hours holding them up to teh light trying to work out which is which' trick. Although my tactic for the legion of elderly aunts I have negates this problem- half a dozen identical gift boxes from Body Shop.
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