Comments on: Instead of Coal in the Stocking http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1721 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Fri, 22 May 2026 13:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Becca http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1721&cpage=1#comment-15752 Becca Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:09:38 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=1721#comment-15752 It's so hard to pick just one horrible gift, but certainly one of the Top Five has to be the year my mother wrapped up a bunch of old grease-covered spatulas and other kitchen tools and gave them to me. (I think she and my dad were purging junk from the kitchen.) I refused to accept them, and she said, "Fine, I'll just give them to somebody else!" To whomever that somebody was, I apologize. It’s so hard to pick just one horrible gift, but certainly one of the Top Five has to be the year my mother wrapped up a bunch of old grease-covered spatulas and other kitchen tools and gave them to me. (I think she and my dad were purging junk from the kitchen.) I refused to accept them, and she said, “Fine, I’ll just give them to somebody else!”

To whomever that somebody was, I apologize.

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