A dictionary for Xmas one year.
My ex-best friend used to give me the most awful Xmas and birthday presents. I would always put in some effort for hers, but it was never reciprocated. I must say it did used to really annoy me and one year, I told her that I wasn’t going to send presents that particular year and would she respect the fact that I didn’t want to receive any either. She was a bit miffed, but grudgingly agreed.
I remember her hastily writing out my 40th birthday card. I could hear her upstairs unwrapping the card and then she shoved it into my hand. She had clearly got it from a box of cards which she kept upstairs and randomly chosen any old card. She ended up cancelling a trip to Champneys that we had booked together for my 40th, citing her cat needed to go to the vets and there was nobody there to take him, even though her daughter was due to stay and look after said cat when she would otherwise have been away to Champneys.
I don’t think she cottoned on that I could see right through her.