Page 17 | Inappropriate present, hideous bookends and me in drag!!!!

confusedgoldilocks · 2025-12-26T14:53:04+00:00

I love christmas, and I love christmas presents, I got my best friend a lovely calendar showing photos that were precious to me throughout the year of all the good times we have shared, in return, and this is so strange, I got two bookends, which have obviously been handmade, but look like my face, but in a grotesque punch and judy way, I'm not sure whether they are supposed to look so scary, but they are hideous, I actually had nightmares about them last night, and on top of that, a smaller 3D figurine which is basically me looking like a drag queen in hideous blonde hair and a massive red bow, they obviously took a long time and I get that, but I wonder what they are trying to tell me, they have sent me a message asking what I think of them and I really don't know what to say, to be honest, Im quite upset they see me that way. Im just a normal person who loves christmas, I was hoping for tickets to see a christmas carol or something like that.

BriefEncountersOfTheThirdKind · 27/12/2025 11:28

It also changes from Bookends to BookMarks....

Alpacajigsaw · 27/12/2025 11:32

Oh come off it OP

we weren’t born yesterday

MummaMummaMumma · 27/12/2025 11:37

Pay them back for the meal! Insist!!
The bookends you've totally taken the wrong way. It's obviously a joke.

BlackCat14 · 27/12/2025 11:38

I can’t cope with this thread 🤣🤣

How, HOW have you gone from being so upset you could barely look at the gift, in such a tizzy over how awful it is, how much it devastates you… to suddenly remembering you usually play practical jokes on each other, and you now find it funny?

Also, you’ve just magically found the concert tickets? Are yougoing to accept these £300 tickets, plus not pay them back the £300 you owe them for the disastrous meal? So recently they’ve spent £600 on you and you’ve bought them a cheap photo calendar? I’m obsessed.

Poutingtrout · 27/12/2025 11:42

And who the hell takes it in turns where one year one party buys expensive presents and the other party buys cheap and you switch the next year?!! This has got to be one of the most bizarre things I have ever read on here 😂.

TheOccupier · 27/12/2025 11:58

Are you paying them back for the reataurant though? Why did you promise them a fancy meal out if it was your year to stick to a cheap present?

Ariel896 · 27/12/2025 12:00

BlackCat14 · 27/12/2025 11:38

I can’t cope with this thread 🤣🤣

How, HOW have you gone from being so upset you could barely look at the gift, in such a tizzy over how awful it is, how much it devastates you… to suddenly remembering you usually play practical jokes on each other, and you now find it funny?

Also, you’ve just magically found the concert tickets? Are yougoing to accept these £300 tickets, plus not pay them back the £300 you owe them for the disastrous meal? So recently they’ve spent £600 on you and you’ve bought them a cheap photo calendar? I’m obsessed.

😂😂😂😂 I’m also obsessed. Keeps getting better! We need more from you OP

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confusedgoldilocks · 27/12/2025 12:06

its only a single ticket, I dont think it cost more than £50 actually, and yes, I have paid for ALL of the meal, and yes, I guess looking at the little blonde figurine, I suppose I can see some sort of resemblance, mainly my hair, but I still think it has an ugly face.

OP posts:

3luckystars · 27/12/2025 12:07

Does it have a big Pinocchio nose now too?😂

Thanks for the laughs x

UneAnneeSansLumiere · 27/12/2025 12:07

confusedgoldilocks · 27/12/2025 11:10

Many thanks for the replies, all of which gave good food for thought, I should provide some background, I guess I am just a normal everyday person that got caught in a whirlwind of doubt and anxiety over this, and the replies gave a good balanced view which was actually quite helpful. To give some background, we are good friends, and we do have a history of playing practical jokes on each other, so I can see the funny side of it now, we tend to take turns over christmas with one of us buying an expensive present, and the other a cheap one on alternate years, so I should have probably explained this was my year for the cheap present, during the meal they were both laughing because I am a bit scatterbrained about money but I guess next day, sometimes everything can look glass half empty instead of half full .

No I am not Trans.

This morning I was about to throw the box out that had the bookends and I found half hidden away my ticket for the old vic, so they came down and there were hugs and all the sillyness was swept away.

It was interesting watching you all play devils advocate and all opinions were taken on board.

Thanks everyone for your contribution,

Happy New Year xx

Thank you for one of the most entertaining threads I've read on here. And they all lived happily ever after. That's all, folks!!

Original poster

confusedgoldilocks · 27/12/2025 12:09

and thats what christmas is all about!!!!!!

As Tiny Tim would say
God bless us, every one!!

OP posts:

Thanksforyourlackofthought · 27/12/2025 12:10

confusedgoldilocks · 27/12/2025 11:10

Many thanks for the replies, all of which gave good food for thought, I should provide some background, I guess I am just a normal everyday person that got caught in a whirlwind of doubt and anxiety over this, and the replies gave a good balanced view which was actually quite helpful. To give some background, we are good friends, and we do have a history of playing practical jokes on each other, so I can see the funny side of it now, we tend to take turns over christmas with one of us buying an expensive present, and the other a cheap one on alternate years, so I should have probably explained this was my year for the cheap present, during the meal they were both laughing because I am a bit scatterbrained about money but I guess next day, sometimes everything can look glass half empty instead of half full .

No I am not Trans.

This morning I was about to throw the box out that had the bookends and I found half hidden away my ticket for the old vic, so they came down and there were hugs and all the sillyness was swept away.

It was interesting watching you all play devils advocate and all opinions were taken on board.

Thanks everyone for your contribution,

Happy New Year xx

And then you woke up?

Original poster

confusedgoldilocks · 27/12/2025 12:12

no, your thinking of the wizard of oz, this is something different, this is confused goldilocks and the ugly bookends, do keep up

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TheEverlastingPorridge · 27/12/2025 12:22

we do have a history of playing practical jokes on each other, so I can see the funny side of it now, we tend to take turns over christmas with one of us buying an expensive present, and the other a cheap one on alternate years

Quite the drip feed

FFS

If you had said this tiny, weeny morsel of background info in your OP, then it would have explained the whole nonsense a lot

BunnyLake · 27/12/2025 12:36

Poutingtrout · 27/12/2025 11:42

And who the hell takes it in turns where one year one party buys expensive presents and the other party buys cheap and you switch the next year?!! This has got to be one of the most bizarre things I have ever read on here 😂.

I actually quite liked that aspect of this story.

BlackCat14 · 27/12/2025 12:51

How has the ticket gone from £300 to £50?

VioletandMauve · 27/12/2025 12:56

BlackCat14 · 27/12/2025 12:51

How has the ticket gone from £300 to £50?

Because this whole thread is rubbish

Forthwith81 · 27/12/2025 13:01

And lo, the happy ending. 🙄

limetrees32 · 27/12/2025 13:08

And now I'm back to not believing any of this.
Oh well , more fool me !

Grapewrath · 27/12/2025 13:28

lol this is such weird BS to make up.
As if you’d skank your friends out of covering the bill for such an expensive meal and then expect them to buy theatre tickets. If it was genuine you’d be embarrassed to post that surely

UncannyFanny · 27/12/2025 13:45

Oh come off it. And not one person mentioned that there were theatre tickets in the box when they all laughed at the video of you opening it? You realise we’ve all gone from not completely believing you to now knowing 100% you’re a wind up?

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 27/12/2025 13:48

😂 at the update

And they all lived happily ever after

UncannyFanny · 27/12/2025 13:49

Goldilocks and the unopened bottle of cooking sherry.

FeliciaFancybottom · 27/12/2025 13:55

I never thought my life could be
Anything but catastrophe
But suddenly I begin to see
A bit of good luck for me
'Cause I got a golden ticket
I've got a golden twinkle
In my eye...

Nifty50something · 27/12/2025 14:14

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