Agnotology
NES Member
Eons ago, my buddy was so excited for Christmas. "I'm buying my wife a Dirt Devil." Whoa whoa whoa, I said. You can't buy her a Dirt Devil. "That's what she wanted." I told him we should go down to the Jewelers Bldg, see my guy and spend $35 (again, it was 30+ years ago) on a pair of earrings.
Nope. He was insistent he was a genius and ths was perfect.
FF to the week after Christmas. I'm over his house. I ask the wife how she liked Christmas. She didn't say a word. Just scowled and left the room. Friend confided sheepishly that he should have sprung for hte earrings. ROFL!!!!!
Reminds me of a guy who said when he got his wife pregnant, he "loaded the dishwasher".
that was when I was 15 or so, and he's on his third wife.