I thought last year's Christmas was bad...what with the fact that I said back in September of that year ''DON'T GET ME A BIKE'' and low and behold on December 25th 2006, I got a bike. I then got called an ungrateful bitch for saying thank you but always also pointed out that they didn't have to because I didn't have the need for one. To be fair, the bike that had lasted me 5 years and still fitted me was replaced by a bike that lasted 1 year, is too big for me and is now broken.
But its happened again...but with my grandparents this time. They've only gone and got me an all-in-one printer. Now I did say thank you, but...gah, I just don't know what to do with the effin' thing. I have this wireless printer thing, you see, already connected to my laptop. Albeit without a scanner and digital memory card slot attached. But I don't need a scanner and I don't have a memory card (my mum does though, ironically).
I was going to give it back to them and explain why I just can't accept the gift properly. And these are the reasons why:
1. I have no room for a printer of that size and this one is huge compared to my desk...it will fall off!
2. I already have the wireless printer downstairs
3. I do not use scanners etc.
4. I don't print stuff off that much because I prefer e-mails due to the 'not wasting of paper'...I'm turning into a right eco-freak at the moment.
5. I don't use it for printing off pictures because I'd much rather conserve ink
6. I can't afford the ink...I'm only 16 and don't really earn that much money TBH
But my mother called me an ungrateful bitch for finding fault with it. Well to be fair, Ms I'm Never Happy With Anything My Kids Do Or Give To Me, if I didn't have a printer already, had oodles of cash for ink and felt the need to plaster my room with pictures of 'teen hunks', hell yeah, I'd keep the printer but it just seems like my mum told my grandparents to get it for me but secretly for her.
I was going to see if they could return it as well, but guess what THEY did...opened it, used the ink and destroyed the packaging...so now I'm lumbered with a printer which has nowhere and I mean nowhere to go...
Its just 2006 all over again.
2008 is going to be a big one and all...TBH I was hoping for money like they normally give me because I was saving up for something big...but alas I'm going back to my £13 a week s*** hole of a job which entails going round a rough area of my hometown, getting called Chesty Breasty by obviously horny teenage boys, getting shouted at by an OAP whose head is up his arse (he's never happy, you get a drop of rain on his paper and he demands a new one), dodging broken glass and going out in crap weather risking my health...which is not all that good when you're doing your MOCKS either!