A Minimalistic Gift
One year, when we were kids, my brother got the worst Christmas gift ever. We were opening up our presents. My mother had this all-too-proud-of-herself look as my brother unwrapped a box.
He suddenly got this puzzled expression on his face, and I looked at what he got to see what was the matter. He picked up the box, turned it upside down, and shook it, almost as if expecting something previously invisible would suddenly fall out. But much to his disappointment, the completely empty box was his present!
My mother, in all her wisdom, thought she was so clever to give him an empty cardboard box because he could use it to store baseball cards (and no, she didn’t include any baseball cards with the box). The look on my brother’s face…. I will never forget it. He still can’t laugh about it to this day. Story credit: Reddit/SiflOlly