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## Video: Mannes on the Street: Worst and Weirdest Holiday Gifts

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_Published 2014-12-05. People of New York tell our Mannes on the Street about the worst and weirdest holiday gifts they've received._


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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] I'm in New York City's Times Square and I'm asking people about the worst or weirdest holiday presents they've ever gotten. Soap. [ LAUGH ] Usually just things you, I can't wear, that people think I" m a lot smaller than I am. They didn't realize I got older. [ LAUGH ] My wife, when we were still dating, bought me a squeegee. To this date I still have absolutely no idea what the point of that was, and she got me a garbage [ UNKNOWN ] the same year. And comment? I don't know what I was thinking. [ LAUGH ] My first husband gave me a sewing machine cabinet, but that's why he's the first husband.

[ LAUGH ] A red rug. [ LAUGH ] That's why. I hate red. And mom used to always like to get us soap every year, which I didn't know [ LAUGH ] if she was trying to tell us something. A paper plane. Samuel, what's the strangest holiday gift that Daddy's ever had? I don't know. You don't know? What's one of those funny gifts Mommy's given us sometimes? She gave us fake throw- up. Yeah. She gave us fake throw- up. So that we could play tricks on each other in the house. Christmas jumper. A pair of socks with a ginormous Rudolph on the side. To the point where you couldn't actually put them on because your trousers wouldn't go over the ginormous Rudolph.

One year I got some like funky colored pajamas. We had a friend. Bake us cookies that had no chocolate chips in them. They were chocolate chip cookies, without the chocolate chips. [ MUSIC ]

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