Grandma’s Trying Her Best
My grandma always got me classic grandma gifts. We only saw her twice a year, at Thanksgiving and Christmas. So on Thanksgiving, she would ask all her grandchildren to write down a few things that they wanted for Christmas.
One year, I must have been somewhere around 10, all my friends on my street were getting those super cool RC cars for their birthdays and stuff. So I told wrote down that I wanted one too.
Instead, she got me this very silly looking race car, with a remote attached to it by a 2 foot cord. And it only went forward or backwards. I didn’t show my disappointment, because my parents raised me well.
The year that Godzilla came out (the one in the 90’s) I had asked for that on VHS. What grandma got me was a Japanese Godzilla movie from 1985, with really bad dubbing.
At the time, I didn’t think they were bad gifts, I just understood that my grandma was, well, old, and she just didn’t get it. And that was okay, I was just happy to get anything. Story credit: Reddit/captainsquarters40