Impossible to buy old men gifts

You should just buy him his own deep sea fishing boat.

He don’t want to eat anything unless my mom cooks it. Took him to a steak restaurant and he barely ate.

I prefer gift cards from Cabellas/Bass Pro or Lowes/ HD. Don't just get me stuff! It is much more beneficial to get cards. That way I can get something I need or really want. Thank you!

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My father is 66 and loves fishing. His birthday is also in December so I decided to offer chartering a boat to fish (which he loves to do) and he refuses saying don’t want anything.

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Buy him some lube so he can get that stick out of his arse.

The stress this causes on the family

I wanted to get my dad fly tying lessons.

Mom said he probably wouldn’t want them.

I'm a big C.S. Lewis fan, including his take on Christmas gift-giving.

Who knew that one of history's most famous Christian apologists was a giant scrooge?

FWIW, I agree with him.

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…the idea that not only all friends but even all acquaintances should give one another presents, or at least send one another cards, is quite modern and has been forced upon us by the shopkeepers. Neither of these circumstances is in itself a reason for condemning it. I condemn it on the following grounds.

1. It gives on the whole much more pain than pleasure. You have only to stay over Christmas with a family who seriously try to ‘keep’ it in order to see that the thing is a nightmare. Long before December 25th everyone is worn out — physically worn out by weeks of daily struggle in overcrowded shops, mentally worn out by the effort to remember all the right recipients and to think out suitable gifts for them. They are in no trim for merry-making; much less (if they should want to) to take part in a religious act. They look far more as if there had been a long illness in the house.

2. Most of it is involuntary. The modern rule is that anyone can force you to give him a present by sending you a quite unprovoked present of his own. It is almost a blackmail. Who has not heard the wail of despair, and indeed of resentment, when, at the last moment, just as everyone hoped that the nuisance was over for one more year, the unwanted gift from Mrs. Busy (whom we hardly remember) flops unwelcomed through the letter-box, and back to the dreadful shops one of us has to go?

3. Things are given as presents which no mortal ever bought for himself–gaudy and useless gadgets, ‘novelties’ because no one was ever fool enough to make their like before. Have we really no better use for materials and for human skill and time than to spend them on all this rubbish?

4. The nuisance. for after all, during the racket we still have all our ordinary and necessary shopping to do, and the racket trebles the labour of it.

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All he wants is a bj

Most men will go buy anything they need.

I was messing around on a website that archived old newspaper articles.

Found a series of news stories about my grandpa and some trouble he got into for having some “gambling machines” at his diner in the 40s. A witness disappeared and the charges had to be dropped. Found pdfs of the papers.

Dug through some old pictures and found the most wanna be gangster picture we had of him and then my brother put it all together in something we could frame for my dad and my uncle.

It’ll be a hit.