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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:39:20 +1000
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- From: LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- Subject: Re: An observation
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- >Sure. Never bought any xmas presents or cards this year. I've been
- >promising not to for years, but I usually give in at the last moment.
- >This year I got so many hints and reminders from my mother that I was
- >disgusted with the whole thing and stuck to my principles. No amount
- >of telling relatives that I don't give a shit about Jesus fucking Christ
- >and his bloody birthday have done any good, so I'm just going to keep
- >the presents they send me and not reciprocate until they get the
- >message.
- >
- >G
-
- I'm starting to wonder if we could be distantly related.... my son has always
- felt almost exactly the same way.... only almost because he gets really cut
- if no-one buys him anything. I count myself lucky that in the last 5 years
- he has bought me two presents (one on my birthday last year and one for
- Christmas this year) - both were books about computers. The book this year
- was given to me 3 weeks before Christmas but he did say that he wasn't
- going to buy me anything *else* for Christmas, so it counts. :-)
-
- Carolyn
-