The Ugliest Gift

What you are seeing Ben proudly display is the gift my sister Laura got for him for his birthday. It's a flowerpot. A bona fide, hideous flowerpot. Yeah, I couldn't believe it either.

After the initial shock wore off, I told Ben I couldn't handle waking up every morning to a man who owned a flower pot like that. Luckily, his friend Lori was getting married the next week. We threw it in a bag with plenty of tissue paper, shoved it in the middle of all the gifts at the reception, and conveniently forgot to mark it with a card.

And the legend lives on.