Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The Christmas Shopping

By Jossy Grishan

The time around the Christmas gets really get to my nerves. I love to present gifts to my friends and family but the only concern is to decide of what to pick for whom.

I am quite a family guy and I love to celebrate, drink and dine with my family. Ever since I was a kid that is what I have seen my father doing hence, I guess this is something I have inherited. I have seven sisters and I am the only boy in the family. By the grace of God I am doing well in my profession which has empowered me to take care of all the needs of my family members. All my sisters are younger to me and at times I feel that I am playing father to them. However, the only difference is that they dont treat me like one. I am their only brother.

During the Holidays, shopping for these 7 ladies is the hardest task to do, no doubt. I feel like I'm almost going to get a heart attack every time this time of the year comes. I mean, come on now. Seven girls! How the heck do I remember what each of them like. One scenario that happens most of the time is that some one likes the other person's gift more than her own. That one of my sisters looks at me and asks me why she did not get that. Oh yeah, I always get in the mess all the time anyways.

To tell you how much this has caused me problems and frustrations, I have bought everything possible for them, from shoes to clothes to even pets but for some reasons, I still never get what they want. And the time of the year is here once again, and I promised myself that I will never repeat any gifts ever again. Every time I ask them what gifts they want, most of them would just say that they don't know yet. So i managed to think of another way to do this, so I made a suggestion box for them in the living room so that they can just put anything in the box of whatever it is that they want for the Holidays. But no one really put anything in there but "just get whatever you want, we wouldn't tell." That made me even more frustrated.

This time around, I just decided that I would just randomly pick things once I see them down the street. Because even if I pick or not pick, they would always be saying something about it either way. So once I started walking, a got a make-up set, a DVD player, a huge mirror, a wall clock, an aquarium, a stuffed toy and a Cartier fake handbag. I gift wrapped ever single one of them and on the day itself, place it underneath our Christmas tree.

One thing I did this time was that I did not put their names in the gifts. I just told them to get any one gift from the pile and that's what each one of them did. And I'm not even surprised about it but they all acted the same way they did from past Holidays. But one thing happened and that I was very surprised about. When my youngest sister Kelly got her gift, she was so happy and hugged me afterwards. She was the one that got the Cartier fake handbag.

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