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My aunt gifted me a chia pet shaped like a cat turd last Christmas
I opened it in front of everyone and just sat there holding this brown blob with a chia logo on it. She said it was funny and I should grow grass on it for my desk. I watered it for three weeks and all I got was moldy green fuzz that smelled like a wet basement. My coworkers kept asking if I was growing science experiments next to my monitor. I finally tossed it in the break room trash and nobody even noticed. Has anyone else gotten a gift that was clearly just a joke with zero effort?
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the_lucas3d ago
Yeah that gift was just a lazy joke with zero thought behind it. Your aunt probably bought it as a last minute thing and thought it would be hilarious without caring if you actually wanted it. The fact that you tried to make it work for three weeks and it just turned into a moldy mess says everything. Nobody noticed when you tossed it because nobody cared about it in the first place. At least now you can laugh about it and tell people about the time you tried to grow a chia turd.
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elliotadams3d ago
The whole "nobody noticed" part really hits, huh.
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valh323d ago
Heard a podcast once that talked about how gag gifts like that are just a way for the giver to feel clever without actually putting in effort. It's like they're giving a joke instead of a present, and you're stuck dealing with the mess. At least you got a fun story out of it, even if that chia thing was a total lost cause.
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