The Christmas Shopping

By Jossy Grishan

Christmas is always a time when I get really really nervous. I enjoy giving gifts to my family and friends but the hardest part about is picking what each of them want.

I am quite a family guy and I love to celebrate, drink and dine with my family. Ever since I was a kid that is what I have seen my father doing hence, I guess this is something I have inherited. I have seven sisters and I am the only boy in the family. By the grace of God I am doing well in my profession which has empowered me to take care of all the needs of my family members. All my sisters are younger to me and at times I feel that I am playing father to them. However, the only difference is that they dont treat me like one. I am their only brother.

When Christmas comes and I have to make sure that I get all these seven ladies their gifts, I just go crazy. Imagine, seven girls with different personalities! Remembering what each of them like is the hardest task in the world to do. One thing that always happens is when they unwrap some one else' s gift and they love it more than what they got. In the end, they all come running to me and asking why they did not get what they wanted and the other person did.

I have tried every thing from stationary to jewelery, from pants to pets but I just dont get it what these women really want. Again Christmas is round the corner and I have been intimated that this year I should not be repeating any of the gifts that I have had ever bought in the past. And when I ask them that they could give me a list of thing that they are expecting as gifts, they would have this philosophy that gifts are never asked for. In fact around the same time the last year, I kept a suggestion box in the living room hoping that some one would at slip a slip about what they want but no, when I opened the box it had slips that read pick it on your own we wouldnt tell. I cant tell you that how frustrated I was.

This time around, I just decided that I would just randomly pick things once I see them down the street. Because even if I pick or not pick, they would always be saying something about it either way. So once I started walking, a got a make-up set, a DVD player, a huge mirror, a wall clock, an aquarium, a stuffed toy and a Cartier fake handbag. I gift wrapped ever single one of them and on the day itself, place it underneath our Christmas tree.

One thing I did this time was that I did not put their names in the gifts. I just told them to get any one gift from the pile and that's what each one of them did. And I'm not even surprised about it but they all acted the same way they did from past Holidays. But one thing happened and that I was very surprised about. When my youngest sister Kelly got her gift, she was so happy and hugged me afterwards. She was the one that got the Cartier fake handbag. - 30535

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