China Doll

China Doll

By John Wolgamot (Whetstone Staff Writer)

Finally, it’s time for presents. You examine, shake, and then tear through the gifts – and there it is, staring at you: THE GIFT YOU DON’T WANT.

“I can remember it perfectly,” said sophomore, Lilly Engel. “Every single year I would get a china doll from my aunt, the really creepy looking ones with the pale white faces, rosy red cheeks, and soulless black eyes.”

Engel said her aunt was a hoarder.

“She had no job or anything she would just buy and sell these dolls and give them tome on Christmas. Now, me and my sister have a box in the attic full of dolls.”

Even china dolls seem tame compared to a day in the hospital.

“I went to bed early the night before Christmas because I was feeling really tired and I had a headache,” said sophomore Casey Beal. “I woke up the next morning and I couldn’t swallow and I could barely breathe.”

Beal’s parents took her to the hospital.

“The doctors finally figured out what was wrong, when they got my blood work back,” she said. “It turns out that I had Mono. I got to spend Christmas in the hospital.”

Senior Mark Mattern got tired of his annual gift.

“I got a ton of underwear, that’s it,” he said. “Underwear is not a present. It is a necessity”

Some students got cool gifts for Christmas, but were missing important parts.

“It was the gift that every cool kid got that year” said junior Grace Massara “Rock Band for the Xbox 360, but my parents just got me the game. They forgot about the guitar, drums, bass, and mike. l got a gift that I could not even use. How could they forget the most important part of the game?”

Some Christmas presents have even caused some arguments between family members.

“I was told that the earrings I got for Christmas were very expensive,” said sophomore Kadija Mitchell. “A few days later my ears turned green.”

Mitchell confronted her father.

“My dad admitted that he bought them from Walmart,” she said.