Yet Another Stupid Idea

BIL is at it again. He is full of stupid ideas that he likes to share with anyone who will listen. This time, it has to do with Christmas. While we like to choose Christmas presents for people that we know they will like, he selects presents that he thinks they should have.

For example, for Father's Day, BIL asked what his dad wanted and was told of a specific shirt, in a specific size, in a specific color. BIL bought a shirt from the same company. Of course, the one he bought was the wrong style, wrong size, and wrong color. Whoops. Upon hearing this, G told his mom that we would buy the correct shirt and joked about how funny it would be to get it monogrammed with something silly like "World's Greatest Dad," knowing it would be a dig at BIL for buying the wrong thing. So G heads to his mom's office in the back of the house to order the shirt. He then comes back to the front of the house, giggling like a crazy person because he found out that he could, in fact, have the shirt monogrammed. So he did.

If only we could have seen the look on BIL's face the day he saw the shirt we bought...

Fast forward to this past week. BIL calls G at work where G doesn't have caller ID and can't screen his calls. BIL has decided that we should all chip in and buy this for G's mom (she's BIL's stepmom) and have the grandkids' names embroidered on it. In the immortal words of Al Borland, "I don't think so, Tim." When G told me about this, I channeled my best Capital One commercial voice and said "NO!" Repeatedly. Why, no? Because the last thing we want to do is go in on a gift with BIL. And because we don't want to. And because we doubted that G's mom would want it. We were right. Besides, it leaves G's sister out since she doesn't have kids. Although, I suppose we could put her dog's name on the thing.

G called and asked her how she felt about quilts. Her response was a very suspicious why. So he told her. And as we expected, she wasn't interested.

I don't imagine that BIL actually thinks G's mom is the world's greatest grandma. I suspect that it has a lot more to do with sucking up. I think BIL is one of those people who always wants to be everyone's favorite person and tries way too hard. And he keeps score. So anytime he "does someone a favor," he sort of logs it so he can bring it up later. It's a pissing contest that G and I have no interest in entering.

So we opted out and BIL took it just fine. I'm sure he'll tuck it back in his memory to use as ammunition at a later date. He may very well buy the quilt on his own and try to show us up with it later. Whatever. We will be the ones who bought G's mom something she actually wants for Christmas (dvds and a posed picture of Doof and Bug). And that's good enough for us.

In other news, I had two job interviews this past week. I'll keep you posted as news develops.