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Monday, January 7, 2008

Funny Gift Story Winner!

Thank you to Kelli, our week 4 winner! Sorry for the break in the contest, we were busy trying to get orders shipped throughout December. We're back on track now, so keep sending those entries!

A few years ago, my parents took the whole family to Disneyworld for Christmas. My dad’s birthday is a few weeks before Christmas and so my mom decided to give him some gifts to get ready for our vacation to Florida . The first few gifts were just fine, but then when my dad opened this one, the look on his face should’ve told it all. He pulled out what was in the box and just kind of stared at it. Then he unfolded it, to take a better look. You could tell he was trying to think of something nice to say, but failing miserably. As soon as I saw what it was, I had to hide my face and try not to laugh. So it sounded like a combination of a snort and me choking. When my dad saw what I was doing, he just bust out laughing which in return got me laughing. Then my brother and the rest of the gang must have thought it was okay to laugh also. My mom kept saying, “What? What’s so funny?” My response was, “If Dad wear’s that to Disneyworld , he’s either going to get his butt kicked by somebody or he’ll be walking around alone, because none of us will want to be seen with him.” By this time, my dad had forgotten all politeness and he was laughing so hard he was crying. While my mom continued innocently saying, “But I thought he’d look good in it! You two are so rude. That’s the last outfit I will ever buy your dad.” Thank goodness!



The gift was a navy blue and black floral print shirt with matching short shorts. I know it doesn’t sound very funny, but you should see the thing! The funniest part was, my mom and her best friend go shopping together a lot and her friend had bought the same outfit for her husband. To our embarrassment, he actually wore it. Guess he didn’t have anyone to warn him.



Just the other day my mom got an email with old JcPenney ads in it. The title to the email was- If you want to get your a** kicked wear this outfit to… It had different outfits from the old ads. I swear one of them was this same outfit. The caption next to it said- If you want to get you’re a** kicked on vacation, wear this. So it proved our point to my mother. To this day, if anything is funny, we compare it to “Dad’s Disneyworld Outfit”. My mom still thinks we are rude and even now is hurt by our reaction years ago. I attached a few pictures to show how hard we were laughing. You can see the outfit on the counter, but the picture doesn’t do it justice!!

by: Executive Gift Shoppe