Secret Santa mischeif

Posted on December 21, 2006
Filed Under Geeeek Stuff, Humor

As I mentioned before, I recently took on a new roll with a new sub-company at work. Well, a few days after I moved to my new desk, I overheard a few people talking about the Secret Santa gift exchange that would be taking place. It seems I had joined on after they had already drawn names so I was not on the hook to buy a $15 gift and conversely, I was not expecting to receive a gift… However, it would not be in my nature to just let an opportunity like this pass by…

The plan was to wrap an expensive gift, put my own name on it and sneak it in to the pile of Secret Santa gifts. Add a group of people who are all opening $15 and let the hilarity ensue.

Well, the morning of the gift exchanged arrived and when I got to work I realized that the plan I had constructed was screwed since I totally forgot to wrap, let alone bring the gift to work… No problem, a quick call to the wife and we were back on track. She wrapped and delivered the gift in time to set the plan back in motion…

When party time arrived, I acted surprised to be receiving a gift. I then held on to the gift while everybody else unwrapped their’s. Then, I found a decent sized group of people who were all standing around chatting and went and joined their group. They had all opened their gifts and were taking turns checking them out. As I stood there checking out their gifts, I began slowly opening mine. Then, gave a bit of an exaggerated rip to reveal the iPod Nano box. I throw in a few, “Oh Wow”s and gain pleasure in the shocked look on a few of the onlooker’s faces.

One person says, “Ahh man, you totally scored!”

Another says, “It was supposed to be a $15 limit.”

Finally somebody says, “You must have had Wayne!” (Wayne is an exec at our company)

After a minute or so, somebody suggests that I open it up. Ahh damn, I sorta forgot about that part. I paused for about 10 seconds and then looked up and said, “OK, I wrapped it for myself.”

I received several, “You Jerk” & “You’re an ass” comments but they all got a big laugh and nobody kicked me so it was all good.

There is a second part to this story, though. The part where I reveal that it is my wife who is the truly devious one. About 10 minutes before she was supposed to arrive with the wrapped gift I got a call from her. She’s laughing as she tells me she’s almost here. I ask what’s so funny. She then explains that she thought it would have been even funnier to not wrap the iPod box. Instead, while I’m standing in the middle of a large group of co-workers all set to play a prank on them, I would unwrap a tampon box.

Pure evil, I tell you. Pure evil.

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