We had a Secret Santa exchange last night amongst quite a few Friday night regulars (dinner's at our house every Friday night). We all opened our gifts one at a time. When one person was done opening, we all ooohed and aaahed and moved on to the next person. When it was my turn, I received... a pen. A very nice Cross pen, actually. We're talking like a $30 pen with 23K gold accents (which I may exchange for the one with chrome accents since I don't particularly care for yellow gold). Not quite what I was expecting from that person (I knew ahead of time who it was), but nevertheless a very nice gift. I'm not quite sure what I expected to come from him anyway, but it was more along the lines of foo-foo lotions or candles or something... well, girly.
Anyway, one of our friends said to me later "you know, everyone could totally see you were disappointed." I said it wasn't necessarily that I was disappointed, but it totally threw me (well, I *was* a little disappointed that it wasn't something more girly, but that definitely NOT the bulk of the emotion I felt when I opened it - I was more like "huh?"). She went on to tell me that he had actually put some thought into it. People had suggested that he get me foo-foo lotions or candles, but he thought they were too cliche. And then he remembered me saying one time that I really like nice pens. Now, I don't remember saying this at all, but if there was a time that I actually said that, I have to give him kudos for remembering and putting that much thought into it.
And I feel like a heel for making everyone think I was disappointed. I hope he's not upset.
Posted by beenie at December 20, 2003 03:48 PM