White Elephants

One of my favorite parts about the Holidays is the White Elephant game. I'm not talking about the game where you get nice stuff, I'm talking about the game where you could possibly come home with a horrendous gift. Note:Hard to call that a gift. I have noticed that not just anything is acceptable, sure you can dump your junk, but there are some items that work better. For instance a bad movie, especially one that comes back year after year. Last year Natalie walked away with the Fat Spy. The title in and of itself was ghastly, I have no idea about the film, we never did watch it, we just kept it on the shelf all year to come back this year. Candles always seem to find there way into the game, its a gift you buy for someone else, in other words no one walks into the game hoping they will walk away with a candle. An AOL start up disk is a good white elephant for the laughs. We gave away a Pizza Hut gift card with $1.00 left on it. When Julie pulled it out she looked shocked, like how in the heck could this be the last gift in the game, and who screwed up. Well no one did, this is the white elephant game, no one accidentally gives a $20 gift when you could pull something out of the trash. This year I walked away with a camoflauge hat that had an attached mullet. I now have a Halloween costume for life. Tell me your favorite White Elephant story.