Best gifts you've ever received
Discussion
Andy_mr2sc said:
Vocal Minority said:
Inigma said:
Forgiveness.
Classy little answer, that 
I suspect we have all done something in our lives that was a mistake and we regret, especially if it has hurt someone else's feelings.
I think acknowledging that forgiveness is a gift is magnanimous and shows a contrition and appreciation of the important that is missing in a lot of modern society.
Also it implicitly goes against the standard PH mantra that remorse is a fiction created by SJWs to enable scumbags and that those who have wronged you should be subjected to the heaviest punishment imaginable.
So I like it for that too,.
21st birthday present from my teacher girlfriend (now wife of 7 years), she organised for me to have a passenger ride in the school receptionist's husband's Tuscan.
It turned into him filling up the tank with Super, pulling over at an industrial estate and handing me the keys.
Got to take my missus and my mum out by myself - an hour feeling like a superstar.
Twas awesome.
It turned into him filling up the tank with Super, pulling over at an industrial estate and handing me the keys.
Got to take my missus and my mum out by myself - an hour feeling like a superstar.
Twas awesome.
Legend83 said:
21st birthday present from my teacher girlfriend (now wife of 7 years), she organised for me to have a passenger ride in the school receptionist's husband's Tuscan.
It turned into him filling up the tank with Super, pulling over at an industrial estate and handing me the keys.
Got to take my missus and my mum out by myself - an hour feeling like a superstar.
Twas awesome.
Sensational.It turned into him filling up the tank with Super, pulling over at an industrial estate and handing me the keys.
Got to take my missus and my mum out by myself - an hour feeling like a superstar.
Twas awesome.
I lent a mate my RS4 for a few hours once. You should have seen his face, and I haven't paid for a pint since!
Hilts said:
1906 King Edward VII gold sovereign in my grandmother's will.
Only one of 26 grandchildren to get one.
I still have it.
My son was born last week and I'm already working on an18th birthday present. I've bought a small hardwood and brass box and am going to slowly fill it with various gold and silver coins that I think are interesting and unique. I have a few that have been passed down to me, some which whilst not particularly valuable, are great looking things. Only one of 26 grandchildren to get one.
I still have it.
The best gift I ever received, putting aside airguns and Iron Maiden tickets, was probably from my grandfather. A large silver cigar box with a jet engine engraved inside the lid (he was ex RAF and then worked in aviation). He died when I was around 4, so I have a vague recollection of him. We recently discovered that he'd adopted my mother, and never told her, but she tells me that having a grandson seemed to be the best thing that had ever happened to him, so I value the box even more so now.
Handheld 'Raise the Devil' pinball game from my grandad for Christmas 1980 or 81 when I was 5 or 6. Bit of a Homer bowling-ball gift as really he wanted to play it.
I still have it, 60% of the time it works 90% of the time.
Actually anything my grandad gave me, no matter how trivial, is treasured. He was ace.
I still have it, 60% of the time it works 90% of the time.
Actually anything my grandad gave me, no matter how trivial, is treasured. He was ace.
Funny one really. I've had lots of lovely gifts, and I'm really lucky for that. My grandparents left me some money, which enabled me to go travelling when I would otherwise have been stuck in a job I didn't want to do, but the downside of course is that I no longer had grandparents and I have no way of explaining to them all the amazing things I saw because of them.
One that sticks out though is soap. Nothing fancy, just Dettol soap. It's quite hard to find in the shops, and my OH got me a load as a gift. I an age where giving anything, no matter how little thought goes into it is the done thing, and where cost is seemingly prioritised over value, ten bars of soap absolutely nailed it for me. It really is the thought that counts.
One that sticks out though is soap. Nothing fancy, just Dettol soap. It's quite hard to find in the shops, and my OH got me a load as a gift. I an age where giving anything, no matter how little thought goes into it is the done thing, and where cost is seemingly prioritised over value, ten bars of soap absolutely nailed it for me. It really is the thought that counts.
We were presented with Kalashnikov vodka in a moulded glass replica of an AK47 at the end-of-project party when we were in Moscow.
Due to the nature of the gift, we asked that they be couriered to our home addresses, rather then trying to take quite a large wooden box with a glass gun filled with a couple of litres of vodka in our checked luggage.
Never did see them again though, so I assume the office administrators drank/sold them...as the client didn't pay the last month's fees either.
Due to the nature of the gift, we asked that they be couriered to our home addresses, rather then trying to take quite a large wooden box with a glass gun filled with a couple of litres of vodka in our checked luggage.
Never did see them again though, so I assume the office administrators drank/sold them...as the client didn't pay the last month's fees either.
DrSteveBrule said:
Handheld 'Raise the Devil' pinball game from my grandad for Christmas 1980 or 81 when I was 5 or 6. Bit of a Homer bowling-ball gift as really he wanted to play it.
I still have it, 60% of the time it works 90% of the time.
Actually anything my grandad gave me, no matter how trivial, is treasured. He was ace.
Oh my godI still have it, 60% of the time it works 90% of the time.
Actually anything my grandad gave me, no matter how trivial, is treasured. He was ace.
I had completely forgotten about this, I got it for christmas sometime in the late 70s, I loved it used to play it all the time
A day at the Jim Russell driving school at Donington for my 21st birthday. Quite a culture shock for a shop assistant living in a council house in central Scotland!
My folks divorced when I was 11 and while my Dad had a well paid job my Mum scraped by to provide for us so while the former could throw a bit of money or just give me money as a gift she didn't have that luxury so the JR day was a kind of "tsar bomba" i.e maximum thought but also a complete f
k you in terms of who could afford what. I do remember Kelvin Burt walking past my Astra GTE and saying "phoar, smell that clutch.." Short of getting me Jennifer Lawrence for a weekend in Berlin not much could top that day.
Except a donated major organ of course, nowt more important than life itself.
My folks divorced when I was 11 and while my Dad had a well paid job my Mum scraped by to provide for us so while the former could throw a bit of money or just give me money as a gift she didn't have that luxury so the JR day was a kind of "tsar bomba" i.e maximum thought but also a complete f
k you in terms of who could afford what. I do remember Kelvin Burt walking past my Astra GTE and saying "phoar, smell that clutch.." Short of getting me Jennifer Lawrence for a weekend in Berlin not much could top that day. Except a donated major organ of course, nowt more important than life itself.
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