Yahoo Lifestyle Man Returns Aunt's Strange Birthday Gift. Now She's Refusing to Send Him a Gift Ever Again
The man's aunt said he and his wife "should step on the scale" and send their biometrics to her
A man is going viral after sharing that his aunt, a dietician, gifted him a scale for his birthday — with a catch
The digital scale measures several weight markers and the man's aunt says she wants him to send her his measurements so she can compare them to others in his age range
After the man said he was uncomfortable sharing that information, she asked him to send the scale back and wants to stop exchanging gifts with him
A man on Reddit says a recent birthday gift from his aunt — a scale — has devolved into the center of family drama after he returned the item at her request.
In a Reddit post, he writes: "My birthday came and my aunt said she got me a gift ... It was a scale. It’s a ‘smart’ scale that people use to not only measure your weight but also visceral body fat and other such things."
"I was kinda confused because I don’t see myself being excited over a scale at all. I explained to my aunt thanks for the gift, it’s the thought that counts. She replied and said that I should step on the scale get all of my information AND have my wife use the scale too and send BOTH of our information from the scale to her," he adds.
His aunt — a dietitian — said that she would then look at the couple's numbers and compare them to "other people our age."
"As an athlete for many years I can confidently say that I’ve never really struggled with my weight so I’m not even sure where she’s coming from," he writes, adding: "All of this is done while I was assisting my wife with recovering from a surgery."
He added that he then "politely declined" his aunt's offer "the best way I could and said it’s personal information that I choose to not share with anybody. I then explained that I’m grateful for the gift and it’s really the thought that counts."
Her reply, however, "was really snarky."
"She basically apologized that I don’t trust her to share my info and that I should send the scale back as she’ll put it to better use," he writes. "At this point it really feels like she didn’t want to give me any gift at all and just wanted personal information from me and my wife."
He continues: "My wife agreed with me and explained that I should just send the scale back just to put the nail in the coffin and end this whole thing. So I did. I spent my money to send a scale back to my aunt. I then sent my aunt the shipping tracking number in a text and explained that if she could refrain from giving gifts with assignments or further contingencies to where the ‘gift’ will ultimately need to be returned that would be great."
Hi aunt then replied with "another snarky text," writing that the two "shouldn’t exchange gifts at all" moving forward.
The man, however, didn't agree and, six months later, sent his aunt and uncle birthday gifts.
"I sent those gifts without any strings attached," he writes in the post. "My aunt then sent me a text saying that she was disappointed in receiving my gift as it breaks our ‘agreement’ and we shouldn’t send and only send loving thoughts to each other. She returned both gifts that I sent… I’m totally confused on her priorities and intentions now."
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Commenters are overwhelmingly on the man's side, with many questioning the motives of the aunt who gifted the scale.
Wrote one commenter: "You are nicer than I am. I would have sent her 'Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior' or a similar book on etiquette and manners."
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