I hate getting books for Christmas in general because I’m such a mood reader, and I’ve plastered a fake smile on my face many a time and repeated internally ‘Its the thought that counts.’ as I unwrap a book I will not read.
But the worst one by far, given to me by my own Mother , who I know loves me, when I was fourteen years old! was >!Men are from Mars Women are from Venus.!< I am sitting there horrified thinking what is she trying to tell me? As my sisters are flat on the floor laughing to the point of puking. We eventually came to the conclusion she just saw an attractive cover on a bestseller table and grabbed it. Love to know your terrible gift stories.
Oh! Actually I do have some. Someone got me a series of books by an author that had the same name as me one year as a kid. They did not pay attention to the fact that these were steamy romance novels.
(Or possibly they did, and that was part of the joke. It might have been a fellow kid that got them for me, I forget.)