Family Concerns

Last Christmas, my brother bought me an iPod holder. I was obviously very excited because I bought him a DVD player and spent quite a lot of money on it . The kid has never once bought anything special for anyone for Christmas, he always buys lame presents that we all just throw in the junk drawer when he leaves . It goes back to even when we were younger. Like any other little kid, neither of us ever had a lot of money and couldn’t go all around town buying things for everyone. As a child, instead of buying presents I would try to do something nice or go out of my way to help everyone . It seemed like my brother went out of his way to get me and everyone else the most useless and cheapest things he could find. I guess it’s better than the present he bought me last year, it was a pencil, yes a pencil . Not only was that insulting, but the pencil’s eraser had been torn off. Another year he got me a small pad of paper. Worse, all the corners were bent on this pad of paper. One year he seriously gave me a piece of yarn, no joke, a piece of yarn . I had no way to explain that way. I don’t even think that he bought it. He must have cut a piece off a ball of yarn and then thought that was a great gift.