Behind the Awkwardness: 5 Days to Christmas
December 19th, 2009
“My uncle decided that my grandfather spent too much time in the bathroom. For Christmas, he got him a padded toilet seat so he would be more comfortable. Super awkward.”
(submitted by Kelley)
Constipation is a vicious disease……
of course the lid is up…duh
HAHAHAHH good grief, my sister and I got a padded toilet seat one year for christmas…. wish I could find the picture!!!
Super practical. And super-awesome.
My brother Joe once gave my sister an enema kit for Christmas because she said her sink was clogged up. This year he gave my daughter some hemmoroid cream. He squished up the tube to make it look like it was used. He probably knows your uncle.
my dad gave me a can of corn one year…… and mustard another. my wife asked me if he was “special” i said no thats just my dad
Kelley, your grandpa looks a lot like my dad. Are you by chance either Indiana or North Carolina? Most of my family is in those two states.
My family would’ve done this as well.
Wait…he thought he spent too much time in the bathroom, so…
he gave him something so he’d be MORE COMFORTABLE in the bathroom???
Doesn’t that defeat the purpose?
What a thoughtful gift!
The best part is the lovely “Fffffft” noise that the padded seats make when you sit on them. If you’re really lucky, you can feel the little bit of air come out as well.
My grandfather & Great-uncle went back and forth with gag gifts. One year Uncle Ray was bragging about the picture frame he got for my grandparents. Then grandpa opened it up… Yep, toilet seat..with a black & white photo of my grandparents taped in the opening.
Ray, ever the engineer, explained how it should be mounted.
After my husband and I moved into our new home, my Christmas list mentioned I’d like a clock for the master bathroom. My Dad found us a “lovely” toilet seat/lid shaped one which he thought was just perfect. My husband took it to work and it’s still on the wall in their meeting room over 10 years later. Men and toilet seats – there is a psychic bond.
This is the worst White Elephant gift EVER!!!! LOL
This would be a normal event at our gift exchanges LOL
We bought our son, Matthew, a cushioned toilet seat (he HATED the hard one!) when he was about 14; he sat on it as he opened the rest of his gifts!
That’s got to be the worst Christmas gift I’ve ever heard of for a mother to give her 14 year old son. When Matthew climbs a bell tower and opens fire, you’ll know why.
Thoughtful AND practical! One thing’s for sure: he ain’t returning THAT present!
at least you know it’s a gift that will get used and not regifted… I would hope…
I’m sure this guy is in my family somewhere. Maybe a fifth cousin or something.
They should put one of those beaded seat cover things on it for extra-extra-comfort.
Not likely to be re-gifted at least.
Glad you’re finally using “Christmas” instead of “X-mas”.
my grandfather used to give gifts like that under the moniker “the question mark”. it was an awesome excuse to give wildly inappropriate presents, like… fart pills to my grandma, and pasties to my great grandmother, as well as extremely noisy toys to my siblings and me so we could annoy our parents. my father and i have continued the tradition, lol.
We had one of those toilet seats when we were kids. They’re not the best thing because when they wear out the vinyl that covers the foam rubber interior actually cracks and comes apart, plus the foam rubber loses it’s spongy-ness. They actually end up gross and nasty with wear. So if grandpap here really used the bathroom that much he would probably need another toilet seat by the following Christmas. It would be even more awkward if that became his annual Christmas gift… Christmas toilet seat 1985….. Christmas toilet seat 1986….
Don’t forget how the cracks pinch you when you sit down, unsuspecting, at your relatives’ house when you’re just a young child and have not experienced a padded toilet seat before. Or maybe that’s just me.
This stinks!
I liked miss curlers! Where’d she go? Now that was cute AND awkward! I know this comment won’t make it up there. But still, where’d the little cutie go in her pink rollers? That was classic… and sweet!
My Dad was awful tired of my mom putting the fuzzy covers on the toilet lids…he couldn’t stand to do his business without the seat and lid crashing down mid stream! So, for Christmas, he got her some lovely and decorative wood seats which did not require any fuzziness whatsoever.
He’s now a very happy and relieved man.
I’d hate to be the home depot casher who sold the thing…
customer: “I’ll need a gift receipt for the toilet seat”
cashier: “no. gross.”
Golden!
Mom gave me a fluffy toilet seat cover because she thinks the toilet seat is too cold in winter, and that the cold temperature would interfere with my “regularity”. It’s pee yellow too.
Those padded seats have their place in the ‘worst design museum’ in Berlin.
lol. I love the padded seats. They are way more comfortable and warmer than the hard ones.
My Dad once gave our Uncle Jake a fur-lined toilet seat for his outhouse because it was so cold in there in the winter. Yep, he didn’t have indoor plumbing. Uncle Jake tried it out then and there (test drive only, not the real thing!) and he loved it. We have it on a home movie.
I can just hear him saying, “Man, if that thing is heated as well….. HOOO-WEEEE!”
My parents toilet is kind of on its last legs and they are the types that don’t replace something until it stops working altogether. So I’ve more than once thought of getting them a brand new toilet for Christmas.
“That’s right, come closer.. just a little closer.. so I can SLAM YOUR HEAD IN THIS THING!”
It’s especially awkward if that’s the way he installed it.
Now that is a thoughtful present!
oh my gosh we did this for my dad too. I thought my family was the only crazy ones! We have a picture of his with it around his neck though. I should try to dig it up ;]
One year I painted a toilet seat to look like a wreath and gave it to my dad. We still have it.
In hindsight, the pine cones were a bad idea.
“Hind” sight… LOL, good one
Nothing says Merry Christmas like “Here’s a toilet seat, why don’t you test drive this baby!”
A crappy Christmas.
Oh LOL!!!!
LOOKS LIKE CHRISTMAS AT MY HOUSE
I think it’s kinda sweet.
What? No crown to match the throne?
“Go on, try it out. We’ll wait.”
Win!
I also gave a toilet seat to my grandmother last Christmas — hers was getting old, so it was a practical gift. She loved it.
She SAID she loved it. She is a good grandmother.
but did you take a picture of her after she opened this thoughtful & symbolic gift?
Here’s awkward to add: your Uncle would have bought it, your grandfather would have posed with it. My mother would have talked incessantly about it at family funerals.
LMAO ……………..omg… i thought only my in-laws did stuff like that, but it would be my Sister in law would would be talking about it :0> and YES they would be the type of ppl to give a toilet seat out at christmas!
I hope he doesn’t install it in that configuration.
LOL! Thank you, your comment made my day