Pissed off with reaction to present?

[LolitaChi]

Bought friend birthday present. She opened it and literally looked at it in disgust and just muttered thanks and shoved it back in the bag.

Genuinely thought I’d bought her something she would like - obviously not. Which is fine and you can’t help what you like or dislike but surely most people would at least pretend to like it?

It’s annoyed me so much that I’ve text her to apologise. Aibu?

I read that to mean that you've texted and asked her to apologize. Am I right?

how ungrateful x

I received presents from a few of my friends today and I’m absolutely delighted with all them. I’m really grateful and said all my thank you’s but I was so pleased to see my actual friends it’s possible a I didnt enthuse enough over the gifts. If it was me, I’m sorry, and if it wasn’t me maybe she’s delighted on the inside but more excited by seeing you.

There was other people there so I didn’t want to ask in front of everyone and I thought I might just be being sensitive. But I asked another friend and she said she was shocked by the reaction too.

I know I don’t have to apologise but it’s my backward way of calling out her reaction

What was the present??

Was it a tin of tuna? My Granny once gave me one as a birthday present. I was very polite about it, though I'd been hoping for something a bit different.

You are annoyed, so you apologised?!

Scrap that, I just reread your post and saw you have sent a text to apologise. I have received no text so it can’t be me . Think youre daft for sending a text though. Why apologise, you’ve done nothing wrong.

What was it??

Say what it was or it didn't happen

Is she always ungrateful and dramatic?

You’ve done the right thing in calling her out... but unless you’ve given her something absolutely hideous or totally insensitive, then it was a poor reaction. If you’re like me who LOVES giving gifts and really always goes OTT on the grateful when I receive anything, it will really jar.

Was it a pack of Tena Lady?

WHAT WAS IT OP? PLEASE TELL US!!!!!!

Either you've made a proper faux-pas, or she's really unpleasant!

What did you buy her?

You know you need to tell us!

YANBU to expect us to judge without knowing what it was, she may have been extraordinarily dignified about it for all we know!!

Unless you tell us what the present was, this is pointless.

It might be a size 8 top and she's a 16, or perfume she hates...

Or it might be something lovely.

We need to judge!

Is she Jill Tyrell? She might prefer the equivalent in cash.

What was the present?

What was it?

Was it Tony Beak's album?! --I might actually have been dancing
ironically of course, challenge you to prove otherwise! to his version of look good on the dancefloor this morning,

Nick Knowles album?

I've had that reaction to a perfectly lovely gift I gave to my husband's nephew's baby. His mother picked the items up using only the very tips of her thumb and forefinger, said "Ugh, handknitted clothes" and threw them on the floor. This was the first time she's ever met me, but I had already given them a pile of new and nearly new baby stuff.
You won't be surprised to know that they got fuck all when their second child was born.
I think most parents teach their children to find something nice to say about a well-intentioned gift. Anything else is just nasty.