Rudeness condoned

[amanda_lodden]

Tonight's rant-inspiring commercial is one for DSW, in which a shoe goes over to a neighbor shoe's house to sing a parody of Jingle Bells about how much the neighbor shoe's gift sucks.

This pisses me off no end. I don't care what you receive for Christmas. I don't care how much you hate it. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ANY GIFT AT ALL. Gifts are not a right. If you expect a gift, you are doing it wrong. If you're getting crappy gifts, then perhaps you should step back and consider whether your friends are getting you gifts because they want to get you gifts or because they are being emotionally blackmailed into doing so.

If one of my friends or neighbors or family members ever sang a song like the one in that commercial, I would not go get them a gift card in a desperate attempt to please them, as the commercial suggests I should. I would never buy them another gift ever.

Comments

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

...And now I'm even more glad I don't pay for cable TV. Yeesh.

[sorcycat.livejournal.com]

Preach it, sistah!

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

But, but, but... I LOVE crappy gifts. I love getting them, I love giving them. I can't tell you how much joy I get finding a bunch of silly junk in my stocking or giving someone a box full of tiny horses.

Sorry, I know that's not the focus of your rant, but I always feel bad when someone doesn't like a silly little gift.

Sorry, HTML problem. Fixed it now.

[amanda_lodden.livejournal.com]

If you love crappy gifts, then they're not crappy gifts for you. Which is sort of my point: part of giving someone a gift is knowing them well enough to know what gifts would be crappy *for them*, and putting the time and effort into finding something *that particular person* would like. Which becomes hard (or well-nigh impossible) to do when your Christmas list includes 50 people you barely know.

I hate Secret Santa things, too. You're virtually guaranteed to be getting a crappy gift, because the person buying for you rarely knows you well. And you're virtually guaranteed to be wasting your own money, because you rarely know the person you're buying for well either.