Christmas Gifts

What is the most memorable Christmas gift you ever received? It may be memorable for a variety of different reasons, good or bad. I can tell you my most memorable and this is good. Those who know this story are probably already belly laughing. It was back in '94, my first year out of High School. I was going to Univ of Mary, in Bismarck. I took on a job at Scheels Sporting Goods. It was a great job and I loved a lot a things about it, but few things more than the discount. I offered to my Mom and family that if they needed to buy any gifts for friends and family and they found it at Scheels I would buy it for them because I get a great discount. Mom took me up on this and I bought a couple items for her. One of the gifts was a pair of roller blades for a relative that is about 6'2'' tall and goes a good 260 lbs... a big fella! I asked why she was getting him these size 10 roller blades. She told me that Jim was going to try to exercise more and thought roller blades looked like fun, and she said that was his size. Immediately I pictured Jim stumbling down the street trying to use these roller blades, not a graceful sight, but I thought whatever, he just wants to get more exercise and that’s cool. Well wouldn't you know here comes Christmas and I have this heaping helping of presents sitting in front of me and I can't wait to dig in. About half way through the pile and I open up this rather large box, you guessed it Roller blades. I say to Mom, you know I could have gotten you a discount on these, why didn't you have me get them for you. She says... You did! I guess the joke was on me.