DePhoMo Day 6/ Adventures of Lamey McLamepants

Busy day, so I couldn’t be bothered to make up something or find something in my vast archives to go with the prompt, so here is something:

 

From the 12th floor of a Ramada or Marriott or Sheraton or Motel 6 in Phoenix.  It looked like a hive to me. If only my regular camera hadn’t died, I would have gotten a better picture instead of the crappy phone one.

 

So, I have a question regarding gifts for the office gift exchange.  A trend with me and giving gifts for something like that has been a bit disturbing and just some one-sided fun for me.  One department gets my humor, while the other two departments typically don’t.  While out shopping for a gift for the office party today, I found myself looking for the most completely useless gift I could find.  I do this in anticipation for the moment that the gift is opened and the person’s face wears an expression of "what the hell is this?"  An expression of bewilderment and confusion, followed by the realization that absolutely nobody will want to trade them for this gift and they will be stuck with it.  There is also a part of me that wonders if there will be a total meltdown over something so trivial.  My question is, is this wrong?

In my experience, if you have to ask "Is that wrong?", it probably is. Haha.

I know that one year, I did a Simpson’s Jack-in-the-box:

Safe to say it wasn’t appreciated, and someone ended up taking it from the person out of pity.

Another year, I re-gifted something from around the house.  Last year, I tried so hard to find a set of Obama plates, just because most of the office consists of die hard Republicans.  Wasn’t successful on that one.  I think I ended up buying a Chutes and Ladders based drinking game. The glasses were so tiny.

So, I scoured Big Lots this afternoon, looking for my infamous gift bomb. And I saw several GREAT ones. There was this:

 

It was a glorious 24 inches tall.  It was also next to some Coors Light and Miller Light bottles of the same size.

I also saw this 10 pound ceramic fish that would have been great and would have elicited that feeling of "What the fuck?"

For whatever reason, I decided to hit in the middle of the road.  I got this Pomegranate Martini mix, along with this 8×8 square tin sign that says "Kiss Me, I’m Drunk". Completely random, but not too over the edge. 

In then end, I guess I’m waiting for the ultimate payoff.  Seeing whatever I contributed this year recycled next year in the gift exchange. That would so make me smile.

What can I say, I like throwing a little malicious fun in the mix.  Ho ho ho.