Comments on: All right, let’s have the battle of the sexes again

By: A.C. Gray

A.C. Gray — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:35:07 +0000

Oh boy! My then sort of boyfriend gave me a box of tennis balls. I didn’t and don’t play tennis. They were a freebie from his frequent shopper bennies. Needless to say they were served back and the finally score wasn’t Love!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:44:00 +0000

It was a pair of cheap black socks from a girlfriend (back in the 70s). I gave her an engraved Khalil Gibran diary (she was into his poetry).

I was hurt but she didn’t understand why. Actually, it is my impression that men give gifts, women judge gifts.

By: Eric J.

Eric J. — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:41:09 +0000

I’m tough to buy gifts for, and am rarely surprised by gifts, so I tend to be very charitable towards those giving disappointing gifts, therefore, I don’t really have a “worst” gift.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 22:19:08 +0000

In reply to Pamela. Oh, man. You win---so far.

By: Liana

Liana — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:20:01 +0000

My cousins once gave me an Advent calendar… for the current year. Wrong religion fail -plus- expired gift fail. Yay?

And yes, it only took me a couple of seconds to come up with that answer.

By: SnoopyTheGoon

SnoopyTheGoon — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:07:05 +0000

This only proves my theory the ladies have a perfect recall of all the bad stuff we, the males, have ever done to them or have done in general. I have already wasted 10 minutes trying to recall that bad present and it looks like I am going to quit soon.

By: Snortwood

Snortwood — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:24:18 +0000

Um, twisting it slightly, worst gift i ever gave.. . . that would be, well, you see, the wife likes wooden objects. Toys and statues and whatnot. And not knowing any better, I guess, for Mother’s Day one year i purchased a lovely wooden children’s toy — with colored blocks and dowels, it was really cool, but, uh, well, it wasn’t much of a hit. i think it cost me a pair of diamond earrings and a night out and maybe i’m still paying for that blunder, if women never forget. :)

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:45:48 +0000

The worst gift was in 1975 from my then boyfriend (may he continue to rot in hell).
He took me out to dinner to a nice little Italian restaurant. Turns out he had a buy one get one free coupon.
And the beautiful bracelet he so proudly gave me from his “hard-earned” pay, was from his sister since she was going into a convent and was giving away her worldly possessions.

The truly worst part of the “gift”, he paid for dinner with twenty dollars he had stolen from my purse.

By: Jay Tea

Jay Tea — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:39:49 +0000

I once gave a girlfriend an axe. A big axe, with a plastic handle that was her favorite color. The following year, I gave her a matching sledge hammer. I think it was Valentine’s Day, but might have been her birthday.

Of course, she had a fireplace, and I used those gifts to split wood for her. And I gave her other gifts. But that was my big romantic gesture — an axe and a hammer. (Oh, and a wood-splitting wedge, but that wasn’t color-coordinated.)