Best and worst gifts

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Best: A $30 Applebee's gift card.

Worst: A $30 Applebee's gift card.

If you buy me a gift and it takes you two minutes or 2,000 it is the same to me. I hate gift cards because they generally shift the burden of shopping from the gifter to me.

The comic, Jim Gaffigan, has a bit to the same effect about people who buy something ugly and thoughtless and say with a giggle and a shrug as it's being opened, "You can always return it." "How about I just throw it in the garbage? I want a gift. Not an errand."