Why Bother?!
Ok, so my mom is throwing my baby shower right? Well she works at a nursing home and when I was younger I volunteered there for most of my pre teen/teen years so long story short a lot of the staff and residents know me. Well seeings how I'm 25 now of course there are new people who don't. Anyway, my mom posted an invitation to my shower in the area she works inviting her co-workers, which is fine by me I still know most of those people, and even if I don't if they want to come for my mom that's fine too. Well this one girl whom I have NEVER even met sends a gift home with my mom a couple days ago saying she will be in town but can't make it to the shower next weekend. Hey cool, that's really nice of her right? Well my mom then tells me that this girl is a rich snob who likes to know everyones business. Ok, whatever. So I open the gift and it consists of a dollar store burp rag and pacifer.............. uh............... now not to sound ungrateful or anything, but why bother? I don't know her, I would have never expected her to get me anything or even known the difference if she didn't. I don't need some rich snotty girl who still lives with her mothers dollar store charity. I mean if it was someone I knew and cared about and they came to my shower and brought that that's one thing....but this random girl? It felt like an insult. Am I overreacting?
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Again, it's not that I won't use them or that they are "not good enough." My cousin has already given me several things from the dollar store and I have bought second hand items from craigslist or consignment stores. It's that the thought behind this particular gift seems condescending if that makes sense.