Cushioning the Blow
My friends and I had a Christmas party and one of us brought over her bf, whom we were meeting for the first time. We all prepared presents for White Elephant and the guy brought cushions as gifts.
They weren’t special cushions either, just cushions from Ikea… and it was traded away every time it landed on someone’s lap. It was quite obvious no one wanted it, and I figured we’re probably making this guy feel really bad, so I traded away something (movie tickets?) for the cushions.
No one took the cushions away from me. Anyway, I still have them, but the friend and guy split several months after. Story credit: Reddit / aahighknees