A can of Slim Fast

I pride myself on being a practical person. I love to receive gifts that are funny and make me laugh, or that are practical that I can use. One Christmas morning our family eagerly gathered around the Christmas tree. The atmosphere was one of joy and gleeful shrieks as each ripped the pretty colored paper from the nicely covered boxes.

My daughter got her Barbie Dream House. My son got his electric-powered four-wheeler. My husband got the stereo he wanted. And I got a can of powdered Slim Fast.

A can of powdered Slim Fast. That’s right. It wasn’t from Santa either, it was from my husband!

“What is this?” I asked my husband.

“Well, you said you wanted to lose weight,” was his simple reply.
And so ends the story. That was the dumbest gift I ever got and needless to say, that is one of the many reasons why he’s not my husband anymore.

Angie Womack | Sanford, Central EMC

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