To think "tit for tat" presents are petty

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My son's birthday is 2 weeks after my friend;s daughter's. I/he bought her some hama beads. Mum wasnt impressed and said "I'll get you back for that". Thought she was joking until she got my son an electric guitar that goes off everytime you touch it (and wont stop until laid flat a certain way) and a packet of nuts and bolts. Given with a snidey "told .
you Id get you back"
Now my son chose the beads becaiuse he thought she would like them. AIBU to think that revenge gifts are petty?

Lol
sorry that is funny
you're being too serious
it's just something people say when they hand over something noisy or messy etc
chill out a bit!

Could you give the other child some finger paints and a home-made card with lots of glitter on it for xmas?

Hahahaaa I have this going on with my friend - it's just a bit of fun!!

I do it to my sister too!

And I buy her kids loads of chocolate at easter!

Doesn't your son like the presents then?

I think she got the nuts and bolts (Meccano type thing?) because it's a fiddly toy that requires adult help and gets scattered across the house, like the Hama beads. So, it was a jokey 'I'll get you back for buying us something she likes but that is difficult to keep tidy'. I think you've taken her comments the wrong way.

good lord woman it's a joke!

My friend handed dd a huge bag of arts and crafts stuff once and said 'Your mommy's going to love me for this ' and I laughed and told her 'It's only a month til X's birthday, i'll have my revenge soon enough '

It's not vindictive or nasty, it's just a joke about the annoyance factor of some of the toys kids love best.

Now what I have going on with another aquantaince is a war.... the differance is neither of us have ever alluded to the fact that it's a war. She gave dd a huge big pink plastic monstosity she found in tecoes for her birthday.... it's supoosedly a dressing table and it doesn't fit anywhere in dd's tiny room. It's payback for the game of Kerplunk i got her son (she's the sort of person who hates to play games with him and can't stand anything that has fiddly bits)

It's been going on for a couple of years now after i got sick of giving well thought out gifts that the child loved and getting utter tat in return

LOL

My friend bought my DD two noisy books.

I bought her dd a noisy tinkly piano toy.

I then bought her DS some fingerpaints.

She bought my dd some moon sand.

Its fun .

I'm just saving up to buy her DCs a drum kit.

Shes just joking with you! me and my friend did this for years! It was hilarious scrolling through the shops for the noisiest, messiest things we could find!! Lighten up!

We have to worry about what message a gift sends across now? Shit, I always knew I was a bit clueless when it came to relationships and the politics therein, but I didn't realise that things like buying presents were actual analysed and given deeper meaning too. Waaaaaah.

Seriously.

seriously has anyone got the guitar im talking about

gawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwd Im going craaaaaaaaaaay lol

take the batteries out

My daughters noisy toys used to just up and walk out of her toybox late at night and not come back for 2 days sometimes. innocent face

Goodness knows where they went? shrugs Perhaps they were magic flying toys that secretly went to toyland on little holidays? We used to have wonderful long ponderous descussions about the whereabouts of the toys. She has told me with great seriousness that she thinks there might be toy-pirates borrowing them on account of the boringness of the ships. Well I never! Toy-pirates indeed!