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Strangest Valentine's Day Gifts?
BladeMelbourne asks: "On Valentine's Day my partner gave me (among other things), two comet goldfish, to put in my tank with my existing comet. Where she got the idea to give fish for Valentines day is still a mystery. I'm curious to know if any Slashdot readers gave/received any unusual gifts - and whether the gift was appreciated or not?"
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You might be surprised but the worst gift I ever gave was a dozen long stem roses. Actually, it was a rather NICE gift on multiple levels, but it was extremely poorly received.
I was working in an incredibly horrible job, living hand to mouth, my girlfriend and I were living in a loft near Skid Row, barely able to pay the rent, and even food was scarce. One of my coworkers went down to the wholesale flower mart and bought a whole load of boxed longstem roses, really nice ones. He sold them on the street in front of our office during his lunch hour for $75. At the end of the day, he had one box left over, and the buyers were all gone, he knew how poor I was so he just gave them to me, and wished me and my GF a happy Valentines day.
So I took the roses home, and immediately my GF had a fit, how DARE I spend money so frivolously on an expensive gift like THAT! We can barely pay the rent, and you bought expensive FLOWERS?!? Well, I could hardly tell her I got them for free, so I just took the heat.
The next year at Valentine's day, I was doing a little better moneywise, so I bought her some jewelry, some gold/pearl earrings. She had another fit, she wanted diamond earrings, I said I couldn't afford anything like that. She demanded to know how much they cost, and said if should have just given her the money instead.
It should come as no surprise we broke up not too long after that.
I'm not sure everyone got the joke, or I did, but I believe the Comet is a tropical salt water fish and the Goldfish are cold fresh water. If the goldfish were put in the same tank, they would die instantly, if the Comet didn't eat the goldfish first :-(.
I can't help but wonder what the guy did about this; perhaps he can tell us the ending of the story.
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Exactly right Jammer.
They are fresh/cold water fish. Very hardy, and prefer alkaline environments too.
And I am so sick of hearing about my 3 fish having 3somes - there has been nothing of the sort going on (unless they do IT at night?).
BladeMelbourne