giving me gifts is usually a felony so don't even try
An ode to that “coffee friend”
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#52Of course, the exact opposite should follow if their interest is meth.
Opposite mean get them what they want or dont? Easy gift is just hand them the "Get Out of Jail Free" Monopoly card. All will have a good laugh.
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#53Well, if any of you want to buy me a gift, I am really into bass fishing. And collecting hand tools. And power tools.. And test equipment...
Pretty neat that your perfect gift has been invented and you have the skills and gear to mount and display it.
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#55I assume everyone is a "chocolate friend". If they aren't, they'll let you know.
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#56As somebody who has been “that coffee friend” and received far too many coffee-related gifts for years (including many pounds of stale, burnt beans), I wish people wouldn’t do this. If I’m super into topic X and you’re not, there’s a good chance whatever you get will either not be of interest (e.g. bad beans) or just redundant (I can only use so many mugs or grinders). Obviously the thought is always appreciated, and…
This. I hate getting books as gifts because I am lucky about the editions I buy nowadays. People used to gift me books until I asked them not to. I'd prefer it if someone asked me what I wanted and got me specifically that, unless, of course, they made me handmade cards or bookmarks.
People get me crypto books because apparently I like books and tech.
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#57I thing I decided late in life is that being really into things is cool. Something I'm rather sad about is that highschool kinda beat that attitude out of me. I was a classic nerd, including all the bad attributes that label comes with, but also one really good one: I was really into a number of things. But I learned from hard experience that being super into stuff was lame - being disinterested and too cool for stuf…
At the risk of sounding immature and causing offense (none intended), I think it's important to remember why your initial instinct in youth was to dislike unironic enthusiasm.
I can only speak for myself, but was trying to avoid being labeled.
I wanted to people to actually get to know me and not just use me as a means to an end. I am not merely my hobbies. I do enjoy helping people out from time to time, but I strongly dislike being someone's "_____ guy". Very easy to be taken advantage of. The world isn't always nice.
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#58I'm "the book friend", and though I only occasionally get books as gifts, I like gifting books that people may have heard of and can read quickly. Books like The Martian, or The Hobbit.
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#59As somebody who has been “that coffee friend” and received far too many coffee-related gifts for years (including many pounds of stale, burnt beans), I wish people wouldn’t do this. If I’m super into topic X and you’re not, there’s a good chance whatever you get will either not be of interest (e.g. bad beans) or just redundant (I can only use so many mugs or grinders). Obviously the thought is always appreciated, and…
This is my experience as well. I appreciate my friends getting me some coffee but too many bags of expensive burnt Kona coffee have been thrown in the trash. And I don't need N+1 drippers as gifts
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#60As somebody who has been “that coffee friend” and received far too many coffee-related gifts for years (including many pounds of stale, burnt beans), I wish people wouldn’t do this. If I’m super into topic X and you’re not, there’s a good chance whatever you get will either not be of interest (e.g. bad beans) or just redundant (I can only use so many mugs or grinders). Obviously the thought is always appreciated, and…
This. I hate getting books as gifts because I am lucky about the editions I buy nowadays. People used to gift me books until I asked them not to. I'd prefer it if someone asked me what I wanted and got me specifically that, unless, of course, they made me handmade cards or bookmarks.
> This. I hate getting books as gifts because I am lucky Did you mean picky here?] about the editions I buy nowadays.
The mental image of you being annoyed because you just know that while your friends did their best, the universe would have conspired to put a really pristine first-edition there is pretty funny.