Unwanted Presents by Bradypus


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Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, But Rita Got Returned To Wal-Mart OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - A Nebraska woman who received an ornate box for Christmas and returned it to Wal-Mart without looking inside discovered later it contained the ashes of her recently deceased sister, a newspaper reported on Friday. Judy Money received the box as a gift from her brother who lives in Iowa. But after unwrapping the package on Christmas Eve she saw the box had a broken knob and decided to return it to Wal-Mart without ever looking at the contents inside, the Omaha World-Herald reported. When Money later confessed to her brother that she had returned his gift, he told her the box contained the ashes of their sister, who had died Dec. 11, the Herald said. Marvin Tippery, Money's brother, told the Herald he was shocked when he found out she had returned the box. "No, no, you didn't! Your sister was in there," the Herald quoted him as telling Money. Money told the Herald she made a mad dash back to Wal-Mart, but the box had already been thrown out with the trash. Money and her brother finally found the box on Thursday amid trash piles at an area landfill. "My prayers have been answered," she told the Herald. "Just the thought of having her in the dump was awful."

Unwanted Presents by Bradypus

Bradypus' Comments: This one doesn't have a tune, but it might work with a sort of country approach.

Some perfume that I'll never wear
A Mickey-Mouse eared hat
A book that I've already read
And beer that's gone flat –
These are

Unwanted presents
From the bottom of life's sack
All these unwanted presents
I'll simply send them back.

A bath to wash your feet in
And socks to wear in bed
A CD of pop music
that just echoes through my head-
These are

Unwanted presents
They show such lack of taste
All these unwanted presents
They all seem such a waste.

A box, the handle falling off
and funny dust inside
Back to the shop it goes right now-
It cannot be denied
It's an

Unwanted present
I can't take it anymore
What an unwanted present-
So right back to the store.

What's that? Her ashes? Are you sure?
Oh, how can these things be?
I've sent her ashes to the trash
What will become of me?
There's an

Unwanted presence
A chill and spooky air
What an unwanted presence
I feel her everywhere
A haunting unwanted presence
Because I took no care
My sister's unwanted presence
Is with me everywhere.