My mother-in-law complained that every expensive gift I bought my wife should have been bought for her too\u2026 so I gave her exactly what she asked for.<\/p>\n
My wife Jane loved unusual things\u2014crystals, butterfly displays, even a glass skull.<\/p>\n
But her mother Celia always complained.<\/p>\n
When I gave Jane a diamond bracelet, Celia said, \u201cWhat about me?\u201d<\/p>\n
When Jane got a designer handbag, Celia complained again.<\/p>\n
Then Jane got a tarantula.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when I had an idea.<\/p>\n
I ordered Celia her very own tarantula\u2014with a terrarium, food, care instructions, and one gift note:<\/p>\n
\u201cSince you always want what Jane gets\u2026 enjoy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Twenty-seven minutes after the package arrived, my phone exploded.<\/p>\n \u201cWHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!\u201d<\/p>\n Celia was screaming.<\/p>\n \u201cYou sent me a GIANT HAIRY SPIDER!\u201d<\/p>\n I calmly replied, \u201cI thought you wanted the same gifts I give my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n She hung up.<\/p>\n Later, my wife Jane heard what happened\u2026<\/p>\n And instead of getting angry, she burst out laughing.<\/p>\n Celia never demanded \u201cequal gifts\u201d again.<\/p>\n Sometimes, the best revenge isn\u2019t expensive.<\/p>\n It\u2019s giving someone exactly what they asked for.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My mother-in-law complained that every expensive gift I bought my wife should have been bought for her too\u2026 so I gave her exactly what she asked for. My wife Jane loved unusual things\u2014crystals, butterfly displays, even a glass skull. But her mother Celia always complained. When I gave Jane a diamond bracelet, Celia said, \u201cWhat …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11044,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions\/11044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}