Gifts

It's always hard getting a gift for someone of the opposite sex. Unless you buy the other person a pet monkey in which case you have won......hands down. But as a man I find buying gifts for women incredibilly difficult.

My mum will never tell me what she really wants until 23:45, the night before her birthday/whatever, what she wanted. Which is way to late as BHS has closed and I have already bought for her.

My daughter is easy to buy for. She is one of these kids that if you hand over, literally anything, she will tell you that its "what I've always wanted".

This is all well and good. But then, when you add the girlfriend into the mix it gets a whole lot more difficult.

Now going back to just after Xmas we had a little conversation. To help avoid confusion we will call my girlfriend L.

L "My friend got a Radley bag for Xmas"
"Really?" (WTF is a radley bag?)
L "Yeah and she sold it........can you belive it?"
"................................Not at all"

Now going by this conversaton you can guess that she would like a Radley bag.

This leads me to walking around shops looking at handbags for hours. Only after the third shop do I realise that I may look like some sort of "weirdo". To avoid this I go up to the sales woman and demand that she show me the Radley bags and tell me exactly which one I need to get to keep my woman happy. This of course is impossible as no two women think alike. About anything. EVER.

Lots of questions from her, and shrugs from me later........

I purchase a Radley bag. The slaeswoman told me that its what all the "ladies" want and that I "can't go wrong".

I have kept the receipt just in case.

Just wish I had recorded the sales woman making these promises so that my death for the "crap bag" can be explained to all men everywhere.