Inappropriate present, hideous bookends and me in drag!!!!

If you were hoping for tickets, why did you not buy you and her tickets as her present? but a calendar and then expect tickets???? Art is subjective. You didn’t appreciate it and that’s fine. The choice is, be honest and say they’ve upset you or get rid and say nothing. The dinner debacle could be put right by buying restaurant vouchers for your friend and her husband

This sort of seems to suggest that you think that because you intended to take them out for a £300 meal they should have got you £300 tickets. But what actually happened is THEY took YOU out for a £300 meal, you want £300 tickets in addition, and in return your friend got a homemade calendar.

The bookends are ugly, I'll give you that. Some people do like caricatures though!

They're always lurking somewhere 😂

So they not only have a photo of you that they modelled their curse object on, they have a film capturing you in the first instant with it?

Do not let these people cross your threshold again.

They sound awful and your brother sounds awful too. Are they mutual friends? If you said you’d pay them back I don’t know what their problem was. They’re cruel and you should cut them off over this

Well it would sound like that, however the fact they specifically requested her brother film her reaction when opening it and then played it on a big screen as entertainment for their family all laughing, certainly looks like it was purposeful.

You are bonkers. They stumped up for a meal you were taking them out for. You expected expensive tickets and gave them a calendar in return! Can't comment on what they have given you. They may not be supposed to be caricatures of you at all but you have taken it that way perhaps.

What does that mean?

From what you’ve posted, you are a CF Friend.

You take your Friends out for a meal, encouraging them to order what food/wine they want. They end up paying for the meal themselves!

You buy a calendar, and expect Theatre tickets in return!

Pay them back, what you owe them.

Eh?

Yeah this is obvious maleficium

The eyes on that figurine are all wrong.

Put the things in a bag, smash them with a hammer while inside the bag, put them in an outside bin, take a bath with salt, say a prayer.

And pay them the money.

Quite and how is it any difference to those caricature sketches that people get done? They're really common and while they exaggerate characteristics, they are not intended to be rude or spiteful. My Dad has one of him playing rugby for Wales from when he retired.

I can't get over the fact that no effort was made to pay back this friend £300 for the meal which was supposed to be 'a Christmas present' and then to expect £300-worth of tickets as a gift?! OP bought a calendar. Her friend spent £300 on a meal and also made some homemade trinkets. Why would anyone expect to be bought tickets when they hadn't reimbursed the meal that they were 'hosting'.

That is hideous and I think I'd have it blessed before sticking on a bonfire tbh.
So called friend dropped from great height as well, would NEVER talk to her again what a total cow.

Are you any good at art and crafting, OP? Because if someone did this to take the piss out of me I'd be sending a similar themed item back to them.

I really cant work out what is going on in this post however you do seem to have raised some red flags. You sound emotionally imature. Why the heck would u take someone out for dinner and encorrage them to run up the bill if you couldnt afford it? why are you sending random pics of yourself to friends? I have a family member who does this and eveyone laughs at her. I think the calender was a poor choice of a gift you sound quite full of your own self importance and i think your friends are trying to tell you something.
Use this as a wakeup call/ learning curve. Get some councilling and move on.

It is witchcraft

Thanks 👍

Sorry ignore, it wasnt her post

I thought she'd just shown the weird figure?

She hasn’t! The image posted was the figurine, we haven’t seen the bookends.

This sounds spiteful and cruel of them and completely over the top compared to not being able to pay a bill.

A real friend wouldn't do this. I think if you look back over your friendship you'll see there were other examples of off behaviour, gaslighting, making fun of you dressed up as misunderstandings or "just a joke".

I can see why you're upset op.

So you took friends out for a meal but couldn’t afford it? And all yours cards were declined so you had no way of paying it even by splitting it up between cards or offering to only pay half? How much did you think it would be?

And now you think they have made / have had made bookends to look like you in order to insult you?

I would just be honest. Ask if they are supposed to be you. If your friend says yes, tell them how offended you are. Take it from there.

I don’t understand why you got your friend a calendar and expected expensive tickets in return knowing that you o es them money for the meal?! And why wouldn’t it check before encouraging the ordering of things that you had funds?!

This is very strange.