gift/burden

[flea]

I got home last night, on foot, at 10:30, to find a present on our doorstop. It is a little ghost-themed tin pail, with rice krispie treats, glow-in-the-dark bracelets, and little foam pellets that expand into monsters when you add water. It also had a little note, in rhyme, saying that I should copy the note (ghost-shaped) and make gifts for two other families, and post the ghost on my door to show I had already been gifted.

So basically, it's a Halloween gift basket chain letter. My choices are: ignore the instructions to pass it on, and feel guilty; run out to Kroger after work tonight and buy stuff for two more baskets and make them and put them on some other unsuspecting person's door. I'm not sure which I am going to do. This is one of those little gestures that seems like a nice thing, but honestly, I'd rather not have received it.

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[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

That was a really nice gesture, up until the "you MUST pass it on" note.