Posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2007, at 22:35:33
In reply to Re: Another quirky thing..I don't like gifts » Sigismund, posted by star008 on December 12, 2007, at 12:13:08
Just to be clear.....
I wasn't upset for being given a donkey I didn't receive.
No one has ever given me one of those wonderful donkeys.
I just found the whole open-the-presents-and-thank-everyone a pain.
Which might lead someone to wonder: "Isn't there *anything* he enjoyed at Christmas?"
And once there was....
I don't come from a background where people said grace before meals. We were Anglicans. But one Christmas my wife said grace before the Christmas lunch, and in the course of it she mentioned everyone who had died in our families in the last 10 or so years, saying she wished they could be with us. And that made me proud to be part of a group who thought it was important to remember.
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