Laughing at Another's Pain

Ran across the following post out there in Message Board land:

"The hardest part of breaking up is knowing you already bought her her christmas present. Plus you threw away the reciept because you thought it would last forever."

Which, at face value, is pretty sad. Hell, we've all probably been there at one time or another (Lordy knows I have).

After this initial post, there's a slew of responses like:

"Sorry to hear that."

"Fuck."

and so on.

Even I, after seeing the first post, felt sympathy towards the lil' fellow. That is, until he revealed WHAT the gift in question was in the following post:

"actually it(sic) a Elvis action figure but still."

At which point I just barely averted a Spit-Take/Soda-through-the-Nose combo.

Sure, it's the thought that counts (in gift selection) but...but...COME ON!!!

T
(still guffawing)