The Gift

This is one of the most confusing and fantastic stories I have ever heard.

At work there is this young lady who is a good friend of mine. We have our little 'cubicle community' and there are about 5-6 of us who are pretty good friends and we do a lot of laughing. So this friend, the aforementioned young lady is a beautiful Jamican girl. Now, there is a new class of people who are in training right now, they are the 'newbies.' One of these 'newbies' likes this friend of ours. (By the way, he is not a beautiful Jamican.) So he has kind of been trying to hang out with her and, basically, 'spit some game.' We have been laughing at him, because he is not good at it, at all. (When we say laughing at him, don't worry, it is only behind his back - not to his face. Lol.) So here is the kicker:

Yesterday morning, he decides to take it up a notch and gives her a gift. So he places a little something on her desk. No explanation just the 'gift.' The 'gift' is a gift card to Safeway. . . . .

Let me repeat that, if you didn't catch that. A gift card to Safeway. (A grocery store, if you are unfamilar.) Now, I may not know too much about 'spitting game,' however . . . I do not know if I can think of a worse possible gift to give someone who you are trying to pick up.

Not only is it impersonal. (As gift cards tend to be.) Not only does it show a complete lack of actual thought. (Again, as gift cards tend to show.) Not only is it to a grocery store. (At least, Bath and Body or something like that.) Not only did it not even have a redeeming note to be cute. ("Hey, you should use this next Friday night when you come over and make dinner for the two of us.") But it is almost insulting. It is a nice gift if it is for the family down the street who's dad has been hurt for the past 6 weeks and you know that they don't have much for Christmas, then it is thoughtful, if you do it in a tactful way.

But seriously folks, a gift card to a local grocery store. If you can think of a worse idea, please let me know. I am, honestly, desperately trying to identify what he was thinking to do that. Somewhere along his line of logic this made enough sense to him to act upon it. I just can't figure out where in someone's brain this would make sense. Maybe I will figure it out, but until then just know that he is not getting any 'play' from the previously mentioned Jamican friend of mine. He is going to have a to try to do a much better job.