We all know that feeling. You’ve been eyeing that perfect something for months, dropping hints like breadcrumbs, yet somehow, you end up with a nose hair trimmer or a set of kitchen sponges. They say it’s the thought that counts, but, my dudes, let’s admit it, there are some areas in life where thinking isn’t our strongest most dominant quality. 

Many of us found ourselves panic-sweating hours before a gift-deserving moment or date, thinking, «She’ll totally love this socket wrench set because… uh… she mentioned something about home improvement once»? Yeah, we’ve been there. Like buying your vegetarian girlfriend a BBQ grill because «we can use it together!» 

Self-serving gift-giving is peak man behavior, We’ll just wrap it up all nice, and give it to our partner, and then hover around like a vulture waiting to «share» it. We’re not slick you know. Everyone sees through it. Most of the time it can be regarded as funny and even cute, not when its mixed with a heavy dosage of gaslighty weaponized incompetence.

Sometimes you just have to cut your losses in advance and go home my guy, that’s exactly the case with the following story, I’m telling you, you should drop the idea of defending him at this point.

Now, let me tell you about this champion among us – a true master of self-delusion. This guy bought his girlfriend three boxes of Pokémon cards. Not one. Not two. Three. For Christmas. When she, grab your chair boys because this one’s a shocker, did NOT want Pokémon cards. Amazingly she was actively requesting other items.