My relatives made me become a thespian ungrateful git. Took some practice, but now I can embrace the odd horrible wool sweater with a beaming smile.
As long as you've been labeled ungrateful... you may as well play the part. Put the 50 song wonder in a drawer and go buy yourself the one you really want. Then, the next time you want to reward one of your students for doing an extremely good job (or bribe them to get them to try harder), just re-gift that 'thing' in your drawer.
i'd try to return it. anyway, gifts like that should come with a return receipt if they were bought legitimately.
I suggest you should accept any gift in the spirit in which it has been given...they didn't have to give you anything!What you do with it is up to you.
OK, I didn't accept the gift with a scowl, or throw it across the room in a tiss, but I wasn't doing cartwheels either. I had heard from the missus that they wanted to buy me something as a thankyou, and I had told her to tell them not to bother because it made me feel a little uncomfortable...anyway, I'm going to take it to China, though it might accidentally 'slip' into the Tiger Leaping Gorge...
Really Shleppy, this is Tel Aviv, not Boca. Ashley, Mrs AS is pissed because when you're grown up, you should accept all gifts graciously. You're supposed to be grateful they spent brain cells thinking about you. Unfortunately nowadays, gifts that are neither cash nor chocolate based are almost always useless altho some people will never understand that.
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