another girlfriend problem: i got her a bobblehead for her birthday.

[BiCuriousGeorge]

ok, here we go.

around the middle of november i was doing some brainstorming trying to think up a good gift to get my girlfriend. i was back at my parents' house visiting for thanksgiving and noticed a bobblehead of some baseball player on his desk. i immediately thought "AWESOME IDEA!"

if you recall, in one episode of The Office, Dwight gets a bobblehead of himself for valentines day and is extremely happy with it. i would imagine myself being happy with it too. just to make sure I IMed 3 girls i am friends with and ran it by them. all of them said that it was very sweet and cute and one of them even said that she was jealous and wished she had a boyfriend as cute as me to do stuff like that for her.

so anyway i ordered one online and it took like a month to get it. they make the bobblehead based upon pictures you send in. i told her i needed a front view and side view and that i didn't want her asking questions or trying to figure it out. she took the pictures but then spent the next month trying to guess what it was going to be. she guessed "a bust" at one point which was probably the closest guess she made, but she was kind of joking, since, y'know, who the hell gets a bust made in 2007.

anyway i mailed it to her when i got it and her reaction was kind of weird. she didn't exactly act happy about it, she said that she laughed very hard when she got it, but she didn't act to me like she enjoyed it or thought it was nice at all. she kinda laughed about it and i don't even recall her saying thanks or anything. now keep in mind, a bunch of other girls ( including her room mate, who i ran it by also ) said it was a good gift, so if she hated it, in my mind that's her fault and not mine.

anyway it's been like 3 weeks or so since she got it and i mentioned a bunch of times that i wanted to see a picture of her with it. she has one of those fancy ibooks, so it's not like it would be hard for her to take 5 seconds to take a picture with it. she hasn't done it and also has said that she was dissapointed because it doesn't look like her ( which is dumb, it does look like her. it's a bobblehead not a portrait ).

anyway, what do you make of this? was that a good present or not? is she a total bitch for not liking it?

[Shadowrun]

its not the gift that counts its how much you spend

[BiCuriousGeorge]

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its not the gift that counts its how much you spend

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it cost approximately 113 dollars. she has also claimed that she feels bad because it was a stupid thing to spend that much money on. she knew it cost between 100-150 dollars when making that statement.

[gumpzilla]

It's hard to assess in a vacuum whether it was a good idea or not. That said, it sounds like a pretty dumb idea to me, inasmuch as I can't imagine most girls going for it. And probably a bigger problem still is that you don't have a good enough read on the situation to figure out whether it was a bad idea or not.

Also, it's hard to call somebody a total bitch for not liking just about anything.

[Alobar]

uh, this was her only present?


We are all pretty much agreed this is a gimmick account right?

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have you ever met your girlfriend in real life?

[AbreuTime]

Great gift. I may steal your idea. If/when it happens, I'll report how it goes.

[0evg0]

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have you ever met your girlfriend in real life?

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hahaha

[mosdef]

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We are all pretty much agreed this is a gimmick account right?

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If it isn't I feel much pity for his GF. She can do better than this guy, because anyone with 4 limbs and no harelip can do better than this guy.

[offTopic]

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uh, this was her only present?


We are all pretty much agreed this is a gimmick account right?

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Between this and the birthday/NYE post, I've come to the conclusion that these posts should be accompanied by MS Paint synopses...preferably in panel comic form.