December 15, 2006

StreetTalk by Carol Rosen

What are the best and the worst gifts you have ever received?
(Asked at Jamba Juice, San Felipe and Yerba Buena Roads)

“The best was a bathroom remodel, which is now happening. The worst was a red satin disco outfit from my mother. I vividly remember it. I was in high school, it was during the 70s and I was very shy.”

Toni Apgar, 47
Evergreen
Interior designer


“The best was one year my wife and I were out and we came home and there was a dirt bike in the garage. My wife arranged it with a friend. It’s also a gift every year that my kids aren’t sick—that’s probably the best gift. The worst gift was the year I told my wife that we were not going to exchange gifts. I got her a cocktail ring, she cried because she’d gotten nothing for me.”

T.J. Boyle, 47
Evergreen
Artist


“The best was an engagement ring, the worst a purple leather jacket. Both from the same man.”

Laura Conway
Evergreen
Retired


“The best gift was a set of golf clubs my dad gave me many years ago. The worst was when I was in Vietnam on guard duty on Christmas Eve—it was terrible!”

Fred Bartley
Hollister
Inspector


“The best is the lord Jesus Christ and the worst when I got sick.”

Joe Lopez, 65
Yosemite
Retired


“A good present is having my kids, who are grown and out of our home, in our home on Christmas morning. The worst was a garlic cook book that I didn’t like at all.”

Don Olsen, 52
Evergreen
Project manager


“The best gift was diamond earrings. The worst was a talking fish — it was a gag gift for Christmas at work.”

Marilyn Guerrero
Evergreen
Cisco Systems