--- title: Boy Gets Avocado For Birthday Vine description: Vine user Jeff Simmons uploaded a Vine of his 3 year old nephew reacting to getting an avocado for his birthday canonical: https://time.com/4011304/avocado-birthday-boy/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-26T15:46:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:52.442Z og:title: Boy Gets Avocado For Birthday Vine og:description: Vine user Jeff Simmons uploaded a Vine of his 3 year old nephew reacting to getting an avocado for his birthday og:url: https://time.com/4011304/avocado-birthday-boy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Boy Gets Avocado For Birthday Vine twitter:description: Vine user Jeff Simmons uploaded a Vine of his 3 year old nephew reacting to getting an avocado for his birthday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Let This 3-Year-Old Boy Show You The Right Way to Receive a Gift  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 26, 2015 3:46 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 26, 2015 3:46 PM UTC Vine user Jeff Simmons uploaded a clip of his three-year-old nephew unwrapping an avocado, a gag present for his birthday earlier this month. Watch the little one act like it is just great. Simmons and his sister Victoria, who is also the youngster’s mother, told [the New York _Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/watch-new-england-boy-acts-happy-avocado-present-article-1.2337657) that they were trying to teach the boy to react politely when people give him presents. They also gave him an oven mitt and coffee K-cup as a test. _This_ is how you receive gifts, people. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4011304/avocado-birthday-boy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4011304/avocado-birthday-boy/"},"headline":"Let This 3-Year-Old Boy Show You The Right Way to Receive a Gift","datePublished":"2015-08-26T15:46:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:52.442Z","description":"Avocad'oh!","url":"https://time.com/4011304/avocado-birthday-boy/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Family & Relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4011304/avocado-birthday-boy/","name":"Let This 3-Year-Old Boy Show You The Right Way to Receive a Gift"}}]}] ```