Unwanted Birthday present

**McMurdo** · 13th May 07, 07:30 PM

I just got back from my brother's house, well I was wearing my Isle of Skye, so anyway my brother hands me a box wrapped in tartan paper and says jokingly
"This is a gift for everyone."
I open it up and what should my eyes behold you ask? A new pair of Trousers

now I know that that is dirty word and could get this thread locked but honestly if it were anything else I would be happy to tell you. I suppose that my poor uninformed brother can be forgiven the offending gift came from his menswear store.
I told him thanks and that they would hang up in my closet. I just wish he would get it through his head that as of today I am 41 and am quite capable of dressing myself.

**ccga3359** · 13th May 07, 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

I just wish he would get it through his head that as of today I am 41 and am quite capable of dressing myself.

I guess I should be the poor sap that has to tell you. Pleats actually go in the back. You're not being fashionable. Sorry but it's about time you knew.

**Kid Cossack** · 13th May 07, 07:37 PM

Some people just don't get it. Their problem, not yours (although that's harder when it's family).

**Barclay** · 13th May 07, 08:25 PM

Maybe he's secretly hoping that you gift him with a shiny new kilt.

**Finn** · 13th May 07, 08:27 PM

That's something my brother would do too, and he was kilted before me! He only wore his as a member of an FD pipe band (drum major). He hasn't worn it since the band broke up.

**Dreadbelly** · 13th May 07, 09:14 PM

Well... My advice, however unpopular it might prove, is to hold him down and give him noogies and purple nurples till he cries for mama.

Or not.

**Erisianmonkey** · 13th May 07, 09:21 PM

I would have told him in no uncertain terms where he could put his trousers, however uncomfortable their new location might make him.

**Robin** · 14th May 07, 01:08 AM

Cut it in as many pieces as you have (ignorant) family members and send each a piece.

**cessna152towser** · 14th May 07, 04:51 AM

A rather thoughtless gift, but you can always turn it to good by donating the trousers to a thrift shop.

**McMurdo** · 14th May 07, 05:06 AM

I was thinking of taking all of the trousers he has given me in the past and making a patchwork kilt out of them. I ws also thinking of buying him a kilt for his birthday, lets see how he likes it.