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To ask why you think MIL bought

42 replies

Fantail · 27/04/2014 08:38

us (as me, DH and DD) a Papa Smurf Gnome for our garden as a present.

Even DD (3.2) can't work out why.

Weighs about 5kg and DH had to bring it back in his suitcase on the plane.

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wonderstuff · 27/04/2014 08:40

Is she quite mad? My nan would do something like this, it would amuse her greatly and she wouldn't consider practicalities or how we felt at all.

AlpacaLypse · 27/04/2014 08:42

It's the sort of thing my mum would find irresistibly funny too.

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Fantail · 27/04/2014 08:42

Most people would consider her normal.

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Fantail · 27/04/2014 08:43

DH says no inkling that she thought it was funny, or taking the Mickey.

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LucilleBluth · 27/04/2014 08:43

At least you can gaze at it and think of her. It is funny though.

SavoyCabbage · 27/04/2014 08:43

Mine got us a pub a foot high that lights up. We haven't a clue where to put it

At least yours goes outside.

wonderingsoul · 27/04/2014 08:44

maybe she just like it? maybe she thought youd like it?

its hardly the crime of the centry nor is it something that you could read into.

people get far to offended at times

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Fantail · 27/04/2014 08:45

It's currently gazing out of the shed window.

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Hassled · 27/04/2014 08:46

You realise this is just the start, don't you? There will be a steady succession of Smurfs arriving over the next decade, culminating in Father Abraham. And when she visits you'll need to make damn sure they're all clearly visible around the garden.

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Fantail · 27/04/2014 08:46

Erm, tongue in cheek...

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Fantail · 27/04/2014 08:47

Maybe I will have to plant a surf berry bush, or magic mushrooms

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Nishky · 27/04/2014 08:47

I would love that! Blush

meditrina · 27/04/2014 08:48

A 5kg present for someone you know to be travelling by plane?

So whatever the reason, it's important. And she will expect the item to be treasured.

ElizabethJennings · 27/04/2014 08:49

Surely those naughty baggage handlers could break it?

puntasticusername · 27/04/2014 08:50

You have checked it's not full of heroin, right?

Goldmandra · 27/04/2014 08:51

its hardly the crime of the centry nor is it something that you could read into.

people get far to offended at times

Are you offended, OP? My impression was more that you were bemused.

Fluffycloudland77 · 27/04/2014 08:52

Garden ornaments get stolen though, especially highly collectable ones like 5kg smurfs.

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Fantail · 27/04/2014 09:00

Our neighbour does have an orange cat..

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Andrewofgg · 27/04/2014 09:03

SavoyCabbage You say We haven't a clue where to put it and I could make a suggestion . . .

WitchWay · 27/04/2014 09:04

We rented a house for a while with a front garden full of cheap nasty gnomes. Even though they were not ours & it wasn't our house, we found them too awful embarrassing to be on show, so hid them round the back. Over the subsequent very cold winter, all their heads fell off Grin

Tinkerball · 27/04/2014 09:07

My DH would love a 5 kg smurf for our garden, it would blend in well with the overall colourful theme with his windmills!

MostlyMama · 27/04/2014 09:17

5Kg! Fuck that for a game of soldiers I'd have left it on a seat in the airport.

Kundry · 27/04/2014 09:45

Are you absolutely positive it didn't break on the plane?

LokiDokey · 27/04/2014 10:10

5Kg! Fuck that for a game of soldiers I'd have left it on a seat in the airport

Can you see the headline? 5kg Smurf detonated by bomb squad at busy airport Grin

BigArea · 27/04/2014 10:12

Grin puntastic