Surprise gifts and me?!

That was what my BF told me or rather asked me when I was bragging to him about my ingenuity with surprise gifts!!

Okay, let me cut the crap and get to the point! I somehow seem to suck at giving surprise gifts... Here were my experiences:

When I got my first salary, I ordered a nice phone for my BF as a surprise gift, through some online portal.. After a week, my order was still under process :bonk
They hadnt even shipped out!

Result - > I couldnt surprise him for his b'day...
ME: "Sweety, I'm so sorry, I couldnt get you anything.. " and explained about my order
HE: "You are such an idiot! The actual cost of the phone is half the price you would have ended up spending" (Apparently, I didnt notice that)
ME: Oh thank god! Anyways, I'm tired of this, you tell me what you want, and I'll cancel the other one

So I got his gift (a blackberry), and as a 'surprise', threw in a few T-shirts and shipped it to him! He ended up chasing the shipment for a month, finally paid extra duty (for the phone as he was in India at that time) and got it home!

Oh, and then for a valentine's day, I told him to expect a "surprise gift" from me and sent him an itouch! And this time, I did not goof up! When I ordered it, I put it in as a gift, and gave his email id, so that he can easily set up his ipod. And there, Apple emailed him, saying, "Oh surprise!! you have a valentine gift"! And he called me to thank me, and told me how I goofed up. Me, though banging my head, told him, "Ah, sweets, I engraved something in there which will be a real surprise for u.." (Proud that there is still something thats a surprise), and to my uttermost horror, he read out the engraving from the email! Witsend
And I was like, "Now, how can Apple do this to me???" :bang Well, after all the drama, this one didnt reach him on time either! He got the email a week before valentine's day, and the gift a week after!! :rotfl

Relentlessly, on his next bday, I tried to send him a bday cake as a surprise, as I couldnt meet him..
There was apparently, no shop that would deliver the cake at midnight in his town.. I chased/stalked his roommates and friends on facebook/emails and finally found someone to deliver the cake! :whistle
But apparently, the friend does not celebrate bdays due to some religious belief, and ended up passing the cake through multiple hands, before the cake finally reached him and he cut it at midnight! (And in between, I had promised the friend that I want the cake to be on me, so I would pay her) My BF was so pleased with all my efforts for once, until I told him to pay his friend for the cake (Because I wanted the cake to be on me and not the friend :hide, and he claimed that he will be the only person on earth, to pay for his own bday cake :bowdown. And to this claim, I had an intelligent reply, "Oh baby, dont talk about your money or my money, its all OURS", and my BF went, all :spin

After this episode, he made me promise that I will stop sending him surprise gifts, because it gives him heart attacks! Nevertheless, I tried, another time, to send him a 'Just like that' gift (a fall jacket), a month back! This time, i kept it a surprise, did all the right things - picked a good apparel chain, used the right card, express shipment, got a tracking number, and was waiting for his excited shriek sometime. But that never came! So finally, I told him, after awaiting a lot, that I had sent him something, and if he got it! Same old story repeated, and after a few heated emails, he finally got it 15 days late!


OTOH, he is pretty good with surprise gifts, and is quite successful in achieving the 'surprise' element! But I hope I get there some day!



Have you had such experiences?? Please do share them here...


PS : This is my first try at writing, after all those days of trying to write a book by copying the Enid Blyton novels word to word! :rotflSo please do bear with my experiments!

 

Thanks Uttaraa for the kind words!

 

JAG, I was about to send you a PM, to check this one out, and there you are! Thanks, JAG! Yes, the harder I plan, the worser it is! To top it all, his surprise gifts would be bang on time, and he would tell me, with a smirk, "Darling, this is how its done!" :-D