I've always found it curious the difference in what men and women find acceptable as gifts.

When we married, my wife-to-be created a wedding list of suggested presents: mostly "household items" like saucepans, bedsheets, towels etc. The list was circulated and my brother agreed to supply the one item that I had added: an electric drill.

On opening the presents after the event I was surprised to find no drill! My brother's partner had overruled his choice on the basis that a drill was a man's item, but a wedding present should be for the couple. They gave us a set of kitchen scales instead. The logic of this escapes me to this day.


2011 Morgan 4/4
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