Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Best Christmas gift I never got

So I'm a vocal boycotter of Wal-Mart (aka The Great Satan). My whole family knows it and occasionally gives me grief about it.

Christmas 2006, my parents gave all the kids gift cards for Christmas. Everyone except me got a Wal-Mart card. I got a Target card. I thought that was pretty cool of them. They told everyone -- with much mock eye-rolling -- how they knew better than to give me a card to that evil store.

This past Christmas was even better. My dad went to Wal-Mart for a repeat of the year before. Gift cards for everyone but Samsara, but this time he saw one of those "spend it anywhere" Visa cards and bought one of those for me. Thoughtful and above-and-beyond in itself because there's an added fee on those cards. But wait, it gets better. When he got home and was filling out the enclosure cards, he saw that the Visa also had a Wal-Mart logo, probably meaning that some of that fee would go to Wal-Mart. You know what he did? He took it back! I kind of think, if it were me, I would have told the recipient to get over herself since she didn't have to actually shop at Wal-Mart. Not my super-conscientious dad. He took it back and I got a new cellphone instead. Best non-gift ever.

1 comment:

Lass said...

that totally rocks!!! how sweet of him!