Woman Complains About Getting 'Joke Gifts' For Christmas -- Commenters Inform Her She's Being Abused!
04.01.2024 - 03:43
/ perezhilton.com
This time it turned out AITA stood for “Am I The Abuse victim?”
A woman took to the Reddit page on Monday after a truly awful Christmas, in search of objective opinions about who was in the wrong — and got quite the shock from commenters!
She began by explaining how her family “likes to play pranks with Christmas and birthday gifts”:
OK, that could be a cute tradition — you know, when they all know the real gifts are coming afterward. But this Christmas, the 21-year-old brought her boyfriend home — and they walked into an absolute ambush! She wrote:
Sorry, wait. These “joke gifts” were pretending to give the young woman what she wanted — only to snatch it away and give it to a different family member? OK, what about the real presents? Yeah… not so much.
Well, we’re already seeing the problems with this little tradition. Kind of like when you have a potluck but don’t tell anyone what to bring, and you end up with 18 bags of cookies and no actual food. At least, that’s what we’d think if they were at all sorry that no one had managed to get the girl a decent present! They apparently weren’t!
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The poster says she “realized I went out of my way to get everyone something they wanted or they’d like” and yet she “didn’t get anything.” Not a single actual gift. Naturally, she was upset:
She says her family “got mad” when she and her boyfriend left, telling her “it wasn’t serious.” But she spent the rest of Christmas with his family, with her phone off. Seems like a good call to us. However, her family had NOT given her space! When she checked it again, she “had several missed calls and texts from them calling me names like