The other night at dinner I told the story about Barb and the picture of the Asian gentleman with the enormous cat (see Barb is Funny, below). Today I get a link to this picture from buddy Snark, with an email saying "I know you love this stuff." Frankly, I do love it. I desperately want an enormous cat. But now I'm fearful that this will become my gift theme.
You know what I'm talking about. Certain people get stuck being identified with a certain totem, and whenever it's time to buy that person a gift, one can always just default to that theme. With Wendy, for instance, it's frogs. Supposedly you can't go wrong getting Wendy a pair of frog socks, or a frog towel, or a frog calendar for her birthday. A friend of my father's, Dave Mann, his theme was Snoopy. Can't think of something he'd really like? Get Mr. Mann a Snoopy coffee mug.
I think gift themes are a lazy way to make easier the difficult task of gifting someone with something meaningful. And to any friends or family who are reading, I do not want to be the person with the enormous-cat gift theme.
You know what I'm talking about. Certain people get stuck being identified with a certain totem, and whenever it's time to buy that person a gift, one can always just default to that theme. With Wendy, for instance, it's frogs. Supposedly you can't go wrong getting Wendy a pair of frog socks, or a frog towel, or a frog calendar for her birthday. A friend of my father's, Dave Mann, his theme was Snoopy. Can't think of something he'd really like? Get Mr. Mann a Snoopy coffee mug.
I think gift themes are a lazy way to make easier the difficult task of gifting someone with something meaningful. And to any friends or family who are reading, I do not want to be the person with the enormous-cat gift theme.
1 comment:
Your ending statement that the gift theme is a LAZY solution is one I agree with. You and Barbara have not so far depended upon "themes".
Many have in my life, i.e. lovely birds, little brass ducks or chickens -- yet their consideration is a + counted in my limited reference. They went to the trouble to find what they recall as an interest of my own.
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