Woman rages as friend demands she gives Christmas present back – then calls her selfish

A woman has been left outraged after her friend demanded she give back the Christmas present she gave her – and then called her ‘selfish’ for refusing to hand it over

Christmas is often referred to as the season of giving, and it’s a time of year in which many people exchange presents with family and friends.

And while most of us know we should be grateful for whatever gifts we receive, one woman has been left fuming at her friend after she demanded that she give back the present she gave her – because she’s decided she wants it for herself.

The woman explained she bought a brand-new heated blanket for her friend, Amy, after she told her that was the only thing she wanted for Christmas, as she no longer liked the pattern on the blanket she already had.

In the exchange, Amy gave the woman her old blanket and seemed thrilled with her new one, but a few days later she called her friend and demanded her old blanket back – despite it being given as a gift.

In a post on Reddit, the woman said: “For Christmas this year I asked my friend (we’ll call her Amy) if she wanted anything, because I wanted to make sure she liked her gift. Amy said she had a heated blanket that worked fine, but she didn’t like the pattern anymore as it didn’t match her room. She said she wanted one we had looked at together that she thought would match her room a lot better.

“Whenever I asked her what she wanted, it was always this one thing and she said she didn’t want anything else. It was expensive for my budget, but she’s my best friend and I wanted to get her something nice. Amy also offered to give me her old heated blanket because I liked the pattern and she would be getting a new one anyway.

“A few days ago I gave her the new heated blanket that she wanted, she gave me her old one, and we were both happy. But yesterday Amy called me and asked for her old blanket back. With the winter storm we’re having, it gets chilly even indoors. She told me her new heated blanket didn’t heat up as well as the old one did, which she wasn’t happy about because the weather was so cold. Amy also said she didn’t like the pattern of it anymore.

“She said I should give her old blanket back because ‘technically it was still hers since she didn’t like the new one anymore and wanted it back’. She made it seem as if we had agreed that I would just borrow her old one. I loved the blanket she gave me and have been using it constantly, and I was also annoyed because we had already exchanged the blankets and she seemed really happy with the new one.”

To make matters worse, the woman’s friend even told her she would likely “sell” the blanket she had bought her, despite the woman going over her budget to get her the present she had wanted.

The final straw for the woman came when Amy demanded she drive to her house in icy conditions to give her the old blanket back, and even got her mum to call her to complain about her being a “selfish friend” when she refused.

She added: “I asked what she would do with the blanket I got her, she said she would keep it in the closet and maybe sell it to someone. I wasn’t okay with this because I got her that gift even though it was out of my budget because she said she really wanted it.

“Amy said I was being selfish and had stolen her good heated blanket and knew that I was giving her one that wasn’t as good. She also asked me to drive half an hour to her house asap because it was cold and she ‘needed the blanket to stay warm’, even though the roads are bad where I live. She was not willing to drive to my house for the exact same reason but expected me to deliver the blanket to her house.

“Then her mum called me and was angry with me for being a ‘selfish friend’ because her daughter was ‘freezing her a** off with no blanket’ and I wouldn’t give her the one she had originally. I hung up on her, and my friend is still trying to call me today to get the blanket back.”

Commenters on the post were baffled by Amy’s actions, with many saying that as she gave away her old blanket as a gift, she has no right to demand it back.

One person said: “Not only is she just talking c**p about the gift you bought her, the one you spent extra money on, the only thing she wanted, but she wants to take back the blanket she gave you? And make you drive on bad roads to get to her?”

While another added: “She sounds extremely entitled. Also, the part where you said that she doesn’t want to get it because of the bad roads but wants you to drive shows how little she cares for your safety as a friend.”

And a third wrote: “She doesn’t get to ask for her old one back and keep the one you bought for her too. It’s not your fault that she didn’t like the one that she literally picked out.”

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