Ah ha ha. I just tell her, "I don't know," and then she tells me what she is getting me. Although I also give her what for so regularly that she is really clear that we are two people (or perhaps that I am her superego personified); so she phrases her statements about my gifts in the form of an unanswerable question.

So, what WOULD you like for your birthday, madam? I have not yet sent you a package.