My godmother (cousin) was very cheap. I always gave her a nice gift on her birthday each year. These gifts were paid for by my parents, because I was only a child at the time. When I was in my mid-20s, I received a beautiful box of stationery from my godmother as a birthday gift. I was absolutely thrilled with such a beautiful gift; until, that is, I opened the box and found a small gift card inside. It was my card to my godmother all those years ago. She had kept the stationery all that time and then given it back to me. Foolishly, she hadn't checked for any gift cards inside the box, nor kept track of who had originally given the stationery to her. I laughed about it. I wasn't angry. But when I told my mother (my godmother's aunt), she wasn't at all amused. Apparently my godmother had a reputation for doing this. What angered my mother the most was that she had originally paid for the stationary in the first place.