So, we were purchasing xmas gift's. In particular, we were looking for a gift for my dad. I passed a bonsai stand in the supermarket, and remarked upon my mother that whereas bonsais were pretty (and thought it would be a nice gift thereof), I found the care their required excessive, given that any exceedingly exotic plants tend to DIE FAST at home, and my father doesnt seem of the caring sort. So we got him a movie at my prompting
Anyway, two hours later we were unwrapping our gifts at home, and my father hands me a package. I open it, and guess what I find inside?
A g*dd*mn bonsai.
Now, I remarked that I liked bonsais (honest), but they required a lot of care, and asked if they (my parents) would be able to take care of it while I was at the dorm. My father shrugged away all responsability, and said that I should take care of it at the dorm. Nevermind that
- My dorm room is dark and there is only one window
- The window is at the foot of the bed, at the confluence between my refrigerator and the radiator. This tends to generate unhealthy-towards-bonsais heat. The alternative is placing it in the external half of the window. In the freezing cold.
- I tend to leave the blinds down during day anyway because the contraption lowering and raising it works badly, and because there is a window in front of mine, of another dorm room, and I dont care about the extra visibility.
So, yeah, since my father (previsibly, on the other hand) refuses to care for it while I am out, and I cant take it to the dorm (damnit, if I could I *would* take it. I do take care of the plants at home) this leaves it in the less-than-optimal care of my mother, which may or may not lead to the untimely demise of the plant. If she remembers to water it slightly from time to time it might survive, I guess. If it makes it to Easter, I will take proper care of it during that time. And ditto if it makes it to summer. Of course, this in no way means that it will survive, as, like I said, past attempts at keeping exotic plants of various sorts have ended badly. Even the damn bamboo plants that they sell at stands in the street to keep in vials with water tended to die on us :/
In hindsight I *should* have gotten him the damn bonsai tree...
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Topic: My own rant thread: on christmas gifts and their appropiatedness or lack of it (Read 894 times)