White Elephant
Today I had the opportunity to participate in my first white elephant gift exchange. The exchange was held during a dinner and was a great time. My number was 4 out of about 30 so I didn’t have many choices of what I could choose for my gift. If you don’t know what a white elephant gift exchange is, here’s how it worked. The first person picked a gift and opened it, the second person picked a gift, opened it and decided if they would keep that gift or exchange it with the first person’s gift. It goes on like this until the last person can choose whichever gift they desire from any person that opened a gift. So number 4 is by all means not a desirable number. When my turn came along I knew what gift was waiting for me, obviously the largest gift on the table. I snatched it up, tore wrapping paper and threw stuffing out like it was my job, pulled out what appeared to be a metal fish slotted holder of some sort and quickly realized that some other lucky individual would be taking this home and not me. I had three other choices before me consisting of a small talking stuffed golfer, a picture frame and the gift I knew had my name written all over it.
Trump the Game, a classic. I don’t know what drew me in but I was hooked. How could you possibly go wrong with a game straight from Donald Trump himself? How had I never heard of or seen this game before? The anticipation of opening the box was killing me. What did the game pieces look like? How did you play? If I played enough could I learn to be a real estate tycoon? So many questions bounced threw my thoughts as others one by one opened their gifts and made their decisions. Would someone rip my dreams right out from under me and leave me the leftovers of the white elephant gift exchange? Could I possibly hold on to such a treasure through the very last gift? And then in an instant, it was over. The last gift had been chosen and Trump the Game was mine!
Who could have predicted a night with such suspense and excitement? My first ever white elephant gift exchange and I was (as the cover for the Rule Book of my newly aquired Trump the Game clearly states) “Living the fantasy! Feeling the power! and Making the deals!” Now if I could only bring myself to read the rest of the rule book and someday I might even play the game.
This game looks as exciting as Risk……lol.
I would certainly NOT have taken this gift from you….not in a million years!
If only I knew that those thoughts were running through your head during the rest of the game, I would have stolen it from you, as I was lucky enough to be number 14. By the way, I do believe that Aaron told you that if you got to keep it you had to invite the rest of us over to play, and I have not yet received my invitation.
You have never done a white elephant exchange before?? I laughed so much at this blog. You are hysterical!! We’ll have to play your new treasure when we are up this week