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My sister gifted me the third book of a fantasy trilogy series once.
I never read or got the first two books.
Also, when I was little, my grandma (who hated me with passion) bought me a pink bike just to piss me off, because she thought a boy wouldn't ever like that color. I rode that bike until I was too tall to use it and every time she saw me enjoying that thing she was furious. :)
The propensity for you and your grandma to both act out of spite for one another is impressively high. Its good to have proof you're related
Oh, you're mistaken. I enjoyed that bike because it was a good bike. It just wasn't "boy-colored", but I didn't mind.
Gendered colours are stupid anyway.
Especially when you consider the arbitriness of it. Pink used to be the color for baby boys.
Exactly, and I was way too young to actually care about colors anyway.
Yeah, but surely you knew how she'd react if you rode it in front of her
Dude, I was a child. I didn't even have the mental capacity to spite my own grandma. I saw a cool bike, didn't mind the color and rode it, that's it.
Psychoanalyzing people on the internet is stupid.
No! You will take the judgement I gave you to your grave!
Why did she hate you with such passion ?
And why didnt she think about spray paint ?
She always called me "the bastard" because I had a different father than my sisters.
That was enough of a reason to hate me, I guess. ๐คท
It was definitely intentional of her to gift me a "girls" bike and she didn't expect me to actually like it.
She also pulled stunts like gifting me and my sisters money on Christmas, but I got 10โฌ and they got 50โฌ each. My mum always equally split the whole money afterwards.
What an asshole
Your mom did right
My grandma once gifted me volume 21 of a manga I didn't even own a single volume of. All she knew was that I like that japanese comic thing so she bought a random one at the book store.
If it was Ender's Game, you might be better off starting with book two...
For their sake i hope it wasn't, Ender's Game is possibly the greatest example of deservedly famous book 1 and equally deservedly forgotten rest of the series.
"Oh, by the way grandma, I'm wearing the dress you bought me too."