To have given this as a gift?

[JMSA]

A colleague really helped me out today, and I wanted to give her a token of my appreciation. I remembered that I had a lovely, unused bottle of limoncello that I bought while in Sicily over the summer. So when she dropped me off at home after work today, I nipped inside to grab it for her.
On taking it out of the cupboard, I saw that the cellophane had been removed from the stopper and a wee bit was missing. Bloody teenagers! (not underage, I hasten to add).
I gave it to her anyway because I was completely caught out. But now I feel silly and a bit embarrassed. I'm hoping she won't mind. It could only have been opened recently and she is very thrifty - as well as an incredibly resourceful and amazing human being - so I know that it definitely won't go to waste. She likes the drink and is a keen baker, etc.
I'm hoping that maybe she'll think it's more authentically Italian with the cellophane removed, and that that's how it's supposed to look

Would you be insulted by this gift? I would have lined up something else had I known the bottle was opened.

😭

I was just rasing the backwash as a potential issue

Thanks!

Until the opened bottle spilt in the car on the way home

I would be kind of offended and wouldn't drink it. I know what teenage ds used to do with bottles of interesting stuff that had hung around too long!

@DryBiscuit

Are you always so bottle half empty?

My teenage daughter is a clean freak, so I know it will have been opened and sampled hygienically (and not from the bottle!).

I hate to say this but Limoncello is the exact same colour as piss.

I wouldn't have given it. I'd have said sorry I couldn't find it will give it to you next time and bought something new.

See I thought that but didn't say it as I'd already been told off for the backwash comment

Says one of your kids has confessed they had a bit and you want to drop around a new bottle.

I think that's a great idea.

I'd message her now and say you're so sorry but teen just confessed they'd had a glass.

It’ll be fine OP

Genuinely delighted says it all. I would have been as well, assuming I liked limoncello. I wouldn't accept an open bottle of booze from a stranger in a bar but a trusted friend is different. My neighbour sometimes brings round a bottle of wine she has already started and it is always a treat.

I would think that it’s very strange (and I wouldn’t drink the opened bottle it would go to straight to the bin) . Tbh I wouldn’t expect anything apart from thanks.
If you realised that it’s obvious that the bottle was opened I would messaged her and would say sorry, you wanted to thank her but didn’t know that your teenager opened the bottle secretly, next time when you’d see her coffee would be on you. Something like this.
Because it’s true, you were in a hurry and couldn’t know

I agree with this.

She knows as well as you do it was a last minute gesture. Personally I would have been very happy to have received your gift!

OP it perhaps wasn't the best choice but I think you're getting a bit of a hard time here. Did I really just read someone imply that your seemingly completely normal DD may have drank the whole bottle and then filled it almost to the top with piss?

I mean I made some stupid decisions at 16 but this is absolute insanity.

The milk story makes me think she wouldn't mind. I would bring in something different for her like a box of chocolates and explain that you said you'd given it to her and your teen was mortified and explained they'd already had a glass. Then give her the other present instead.

I wouldn't give her another bottle of limoncello because there's a very good chance that either she doesn't like it at all or was fine with the partially drunk bit and then that's quite a lot of limoncello either to get through or to waste, especially if she's the kind of person who hates waste.

But did she know it was open and some of it had been drunk?

Backwash was my first thought too.

I am older now and over the days when we passed around a pint of Beam. 😎

I would have taken it in the spirit of kindness and appreciation that it was intended.

At dinner at a friend’s house and he brought out cheese. I mentioned that I really liked one and he gave me the rest of the pot, really insisted. I fear i binned it. Bit weird.

Mother once gifted someone a half drunk bottle of port for Christmas and laughed it off when she pointed out it was half gone. I’d have been horrified had that been me, the total lack of consideration, giving someone something because it was convenient rather than buying them something specific, but I think the limoncello is ok, hopefully it wasn’t drunk from the bottle. I’m forever telling kids at school not to share water bottles (yes, it probably helps them and their gut biome etc but euw!)

Exactly. Genuinely delighted then..hmm..is this? Open??? Ewwww

That's coz he hated it so he wouldn't have cared as would have binned it anyway

@ahemfem

It's really weird that you keep making the same digs. Crack on. Says more about you, and all that!