The first Christmas I spent with my husband’s parents (when we’d only been dating a few months), I unwrapped a pair of expensive Ray-Ban sunglasses from them as they sat and watched, along with his sister and her boyfriend. I almost burst into tears of gratitude, never having been gifted anything so swanky, especially by people who barely knew me.
As I jumped up to thank them for such a generous gift, they said that maybe I should open the packaging, as the present ‘might not be quite what it seems’. All eyes still on me, I did just that, revealing a bag-for-life shopping tote – the sunglasses box just a vessel for neat wrapping.
