You H is being a complete goober here!! Like you needed ME to tell you that!
So he asked for a list from you and then went ahead and bought some thoughtless piece of crap anyway?
Friggin OUCH!!!
And he quibbled over a $100 bauble for you and had the gall to mention there was enough money for his watch worth 12X that amount????
What a conundrum...I know all about gift disappointment.
In fact this V day I couldn't work up the will to buy CJ ANYTHING...as I was ready for my usual disappointment.
He did come through with small gift, and I didn't apologize nor say anything about my own lack of a gift...I got him a card, that's all.
Had he ASKED...I probably would have told him that his lack of gift giving to me (despite the fact that this is one of my LL's) led me to believe that this was not an important LL for him, and that frankly I did't want to be disappointed by going overboard and getting little or nothing in return.
My tendancy would be to NOT get him that watch...if $100 is too much to spend on you, then even $100 is too much to spend on him.
Not the most kind, gracious or pro-DB sentiment perhaps, but JMHO.
Shiny
P.S. For my 38th birthday CJ bought me the most HORRIFIC wooden/painted ugly looking cat sculpture thing with painted eyes and wires hanging off of it...OMG!! The man KNOWS I collect pins...even a $10 one would have been better than THAT piece of unsentimental crap!
