Whitestripe Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Pretend if you will that you and your spouse both work in an industry where holiday bonuses and gifts are rare and unexpected. Your board members present you with a $75 gift card for a local liquor store and a $50 gift card to a restaurant near your office (but not near your home) that you and a colleague often visit when the two of you are working on weekends. How do you spend your new found riches? A...Go immediately to the liquor store and spend it all on a bottle of something that you've always wanted to try but never have because your spouse probably won't like it, and invite your colleague to dinner the next time you are both working weekends. (After all it's your gift, why should you share it? You and your colleague are already going to be eating dinner there in a few weeks anyway, so why shouldn't it be free?) B...Go immediately to the liquor store and buy a nice bottle of wine that you and you spouse can enjoy and spend the rest on something that you've always wanted to try, but your spouse doesn't like, and invite your colleague to dinner the next time you are working weekends. (It's nice to spread the holiday spirit around a little, but you still want your special booze. As for dinner, sitters are so expensive and you and your colleague go there all the time so it isn't really a special place.) C... Call home and ask your spouse when they can arrange a babysitter for the two of you to have dinner at said restaurant and spend the liquor store money on a bottle or two of something that you both will enjoy. (Cool! A perfect excuse for a nice night out!) Well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalbear Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Try the thing you've always wanted to. Invite the gift giver to a dinner and threesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woofless Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 ^^^ The gift giver is the board of directors if I understand correctly. As you already often go to the restaurant with your colleague, I would treat the spouse.I am presuming that although you said you both work in the same industry that you do not work for the same company and your spouse did not get similar bonuses. I would spend the liquor store money on something I wanted (champagne?) and the restaurant money on my spouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Try the thing you've always wanted to. Invite the gift giver to a dinner and threesome. :lol: I agree with Woofless, though. Buy yourself a treat at the liquor store, and take the spouse out to dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elder Sister Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 :lol: I agree with Woofless, though. Buy yourself a treat at the liquor store, and take the spouse out to dinner.+1. As the crew on Parks and Rec. would say, "TREAT YO' SELF." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eponine Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 No force on earth would make me use that gift certificate on some shitty compromise alcohol. Take the spouse to dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestripe Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 Ok, I hear you. What if your spouse has been to the restaurant and doesn't particularly care for it? Keep in mind that it's an hour's drive away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Then he's shit out of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kairparavel Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 These are your gifts, yes? Do what you really want with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mlle. Zabzie Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Colleague to dinner, liquor for yourself. And enjoy that stuff :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestripe Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 Then he's shit out of luck.Unfortunately, I'm the one shit outta luck, ;) but your collective wisdom did help restore marital harmony in Stripeland. See, *I* would have purchased something that we both like. [sarcasm] But at least I get to enjoy the beautiful wall calendar that I got as a holiday gift from my employer. It's just like the one they sell in the bookstore for $24.99. [/sarcasm] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elder Sister Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Spouses are overrated, anyway. And no, I'm not bitter at all. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Unfortunately, I'm the one shit outta luck, ;) but your collective wisdom did help restore marital harmony in Stripeland. See, *I* would have purchased something that we both like.[sarcasm] But at least I get to enjoy the beautiful wall calendar that I got as a holiday gift from my employer. It's just like the one they sell in the bookstore for $24.99. [/sarcasm] THE INTERNET KNOWS ALL. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestripe Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 The Internet is full of selfish booze hogs with questionable taste in restaurants, more like. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 All's fair in booze and hogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woofless Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Well, you didn't say anything about the restaurant being in questionable taste! If it's a chain restaurant, and a mediocre one at that, then obviously it's not worth hiring a baby-sitter etc. If it's a bit better than that then I would stick to my guns about taking the spouse out to dinner. ETAOf course, you COULD run it past the spouse, see if they are interested in travelling for an hour and hiring a baby-sitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry of the Lawn Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Use the one for booze for self, then sell the other one in the restaurant parking lot for fifty cents on the dollar and buy more of said booze for self. eta - I'm here all week for your gift-related dilemmas, oh denizens of the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Then he's shit out of luck. Goddamn, I had to reply just to give you this: :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 All's fair in booze and hogs. Sorry, but no. That sentiment opens up all sorts of horrid possibilities, like mixing scotch with cranberry juice and calling it a "North Seabreeze" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestripe Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 Well, you didn't say anything about the restaurant being in questionable taste! If it's a chain restaurant, and a mediocre one at that, then obviously it's not worth hiring a baby-sitter etc. If it's a bit better than that then I would stick to my guns about taking the spouse out to dinner. ETA Of course, you COULD run it past the spouse, see if they are interested in travelling for an hour and hiring a baby-sitter. In this case, I am the spouse. ;) (The stone cold sober spouse while my other half is happily sipping some extra-peaty- newly-purchased-with-a-gift-card-single-malt-that-I-probably-will-not-care-for-although-I-am-more-than-welcome-to-try-a-dram-or-two) :p The restaurant is not a chain at all. Plenty of people love it, but I don't particularly care for the food there. (Of course I haven't been there in 10 years and it's possible I just ordered the wrong thing twice in a row) I was not invited to dinner because he didn't think I'd want to go,even though I might have tried it again had I been asked. In the end, it isn't a big deal, really. I just wanted an excuse to play the diva for a while, but I find that the role really doesn't suit me after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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