You're obviously the archetypical Man Who's Got Everything, Roger, if your loved ones have to resort to such desperate measures to buy you a cherished gift.
I can't recall any such similar slip of the tongue leading up to the last Christmas before my second marriage broke up (possibly pertinent), but on the excuse that she wasn't well and hadn't been able to get to the shops as often as usual (
), my then-wife presented me with 'The Ultimate Line-dancing CD' for Christmas, and...well...that was it, really. I
think it was meant to be a joke, but my manufactured 'delighted laughter' upon receipt was carefully pitched at a level that could have had at least two or three interpretations. I don't
mind Country & Western music, but I have two left feet when it comes to dancing in any form, and three when it's line dancing (I tried once when on holiday for about 90 seconds, at entry level, and after knocking out a handful of highly adept toddlers, I sat down in disgrace).
As if this wasn't bad enough, later that same day, my then-mother-in-law presented me with
exactly the same album, but in cassette format. The only cassette player we hadn't yet replaced with CD equipment at the time was the one in my
car.
What the f............
??
