What is the Worst Present You Ever Received?

I worked in a club for a while, and saw them there, behind the scenes, as it were.

That's my tentative foray into the world of fame.

We had a thread about that once; it wasn't about famous people we'd met, or knew well.

The more tentative it was, the better.

On four alternate years, umbrella and apron from late MIL as she ‘couldn’t think what to buy me!. I think she considered me to be undomesticated! I did work full time and had three children, but in her eyes that was no excuse. She never had to work.

Sallywally1 She sounds like my MIL. She had not gone out to work since the day she married but was highly critical of my (lack of) domestic skills, despite the fact I had children and a full-time job. She always bought me 'useful' presents like metal teapots, tea towels or even a plastic washing up brush.

I'd been vegetarian for decades, but my mother would buy me leather bags and purses.