Everyone's has holiday traditions. Every group, family and friends, knows that certain things will happen at gatherings and throughout the rest of this year. We all know that this week kicks the traditions off, and that now, we enter the season of expectations.
One of my family's traditions is the Christmas party, where my family and family-friends gather to celebrate Christmas and each other. Part of this party involves a Chinese Auction (or, more politely, a White Elephant Gift Exchange) with a catch. Real gifts are not allowed, your goal is to find the most absurd yet surprisingly desirable gift. Good examples of this include the
Women in Waders calendar,
world's biggest underpants, and an "antique" whiskey bottle in the shape of John Wayne (you would screw off his hat for the booze--also, he was completely gold).
I have yet to win the most desirable present submitted prize--though I thought I would last year with
this, but it turns out I'm more morbid than most people. This year, I found a stainless steel conquistador helmet, it makes me laugh. I'm just going to wrap is ornately and hope. If I thought my family-friends had a greater sense of irony, I would include a blanket and a little note saying "Congratulations! You are the world's newest Conquistador, have a complementary smallpox blanket."
They wouldn't get it, they would tell me that isn't funny and, besides, it's historically inaccurate.
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