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This is short and sweet but it literally just happened so I’m still soaking in the guilt and awkwardness of it. I hope someone can get a little laugh out of this Today is my brother’s birthday. I’m still in high school, and today, my art teacher approached me with a little potted plant and asked if I wanted it as she was cleaning out her room and didn’t want it anymore. I love plants so I accepted. Not even ten minutes ago, I got home from school and went outside where my brother was sitting and wished him a happy birthday. I still had the plant in my hand and I set it down near him to put it in the sun, when he responded with a “oh, thank you!!”, in a tone that suggested “thank you for giving me this plant!”. I immediately picked up his tone and redirected it by saying “my teacher gave me this plant today because she no longer wanted it”, so that he would get the hint that I wasn’t giving him the plant. He didn’t say anything other than “that’s cool!”, and then we moved on. Usually I would have just played it off as “yeah, I totally bought you this plant and am giving it to you”, but the plant is old & dying, and generally not in gifting-quality. I would have felt bad giving him this clearly-second-hand plant. Anyways, now I’m just sitting here, typing this post to cope with my cringe and the awkwardness of the situation. Birthday gifts are just weird like that, you know? You can’t just say “I didn’t get this for you” without it being incredibly awkward.
TL;DR: My brother thought that I was giving him an old & dying plant for his birthday, but I was not.
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