Christmas - The Good and the Bad!
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Don't get me wrong. To be honest, I love gifts. They don't have to be expensive or even something that is really needed, so please understand this when you read the bad section.
THE GOOD: If you have heard some fowl words being ottered by someone, it was me. I love those el cheapo can openers that you could buy for 25 cents. Nothing fancy, didn't last a life time but did the jobs. OK, like everything else the prive went up - to $1. Still the best as far as I am concerned. They are around but you have to seek them out. I am a righty and the stroke affected my right hand. Opening cans with the wonderful new openers has been very difficult. I even had to buy a new one when doing a food demo necessitating opening cans - and had trouble with it. At home, even a tuna can becomes a chore using my sisters openers. I had/have? an electric can opener which is packed away waiting for my move but right now I haven't got one. Not that I eat a lot of canned foods and not freah, but things like tuna, salmon, tomato sauce etc. have to be opened. Well, I'm sure you all know about the One Touch can opener which is supposed to be shown on tv, but I didn't. It is magnificent! You only have to put it on top of the can and push the button (it's battery operated) and it goes around the can, has a magnet to hold the severed top and is supposed to stop when complete. It cuts the can on the side not the top but you still have to be careful. Best thing since sliced bread.
THE BAD These things didn't happen to me but are something else - LOL! My niece, my sister's youngest daughter, has always looked around when visiting and observed what is needed and would get these things as gifts. I tried that method this year and it worked great! Several years ago when Game Boys came out, we had gotten them to play Tetris- a good brain game. My sister kept hers on the bookcase headboard. It stopped working though, and she did not, for whatever reason, throw it out. My niece mentioned it to her and my sister simple said- "It doesn't work" Well, since she has lots of books, magazines and other "toys" there, she did not realize that it was missing. Today, she had a small shopping bad and in it was a Game Boy. Looking at it, it looked old and in fact like hers. Apparently, my niece had put new batteries in it to surprise her mother. Guess she didn't try it and- it still isn't working. The laugh was on her...... I guess when a person is old, you don't think they have the sense to change the batteries?
But, the "best" bad of all and really the funniest, was a gift with others in a very pretty flannel decorated draw string Christmas bag. It was from her friend who is a hypochondriac - Are you ready? a bottle of Vitamin C! Hello? This is Florida - we have all the citrus one could possible want and right in the yard- and no! My sister does not have to take Vitamin C for any problem. LOL! :roflmao:
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