Let's start with the "surprise" Christmas present that I unwittingly bought him...a Yeti 65 ($270) back in 2017. Apparently, since he wanted it, even thought I'd already purchased a number of presents for him, this was one I had to buy at work and bring home.
He has proudly told all his friends for the past year and a half that "he bought it", or that it was "his Christmas presents (to himself)". Funny thing is, he never paid for it out of his money, no offer to reimburse me.
Then there was one of his big complaints the night he threw me out. He told multiple people "She never even wished me happy birthday, or got me a present, or got me a card."
Apparently being "hard of hearing" is how he can explain away not hearing me the night before or the morning of his birthday me repeatedly wishing him a Happy Birthday, as well as the weeks leading up when I kept asking him what he wanted for his birthday (with no response given).
And during the week just before his birthday, we went out to dinner at a nice restaurant where my daughter had provided a $100 gift card. However, he ran the bill up to $200, and I paid the rest. Then we stopped at the bar to watch a sports game, and I paid an additional $30 tab there (and I was drinking water at that point). Considering the fact that we shared an appetizer, and I had an appetizer for dinner, very few of the charges were mine. He repeatedly said that it was his "birthday present" and thanked me for the "birthday dinner" that night (but somehow never thanked my daughter for her part).
As to the rest of it? He was so busy planning his birthday party, that I was asked to be right home from work after my shift ended, and couldn't leave the house prior to going to work because he needed my assistance with all his plans. I literally had no time to pick up a card.
But that is how he runs all of his "celebrations" - Christmas, Thanksgiving, his birthday - all of it is choreographed down to the smallest detail, and the minute anything doesn't go to plan, its a "disaster" and he has a meltdown. (He will even count out shrimp and allocate a certain number to each person, and then play "shrimp police" and make sure they don't eat more than they should...)
It takes an amazing amount of creativity to try to pick out a present for him because he always buys everything he wants the minute he wants it.
May all his "celebrations" be as "spectacular" as he thinks they will be, since reality never approaches his imagination.
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