One Reddit user said they canceled the gifted vacation as their relative was already ‘on the way to their destination’. One person explained their “petty” decision to take back a Christmas gift they’d given a relative. “So this year for Christmas I gifted them a vacation they did really want to make. I printed out the booking reservation and gave it as a gift,” they wrote.
However, the relative didn’t offer a gift back, since they allegedly had “too much stuff” to do and they “totally forgot” about the Reddit poster. The relative also continued to make “passive-aggressive remarks” about their family member’s “home and the food,” since the social media user hosted the Christmas party.
As a result, the Redditor said that they ultimately took back the gift, without telling their relative. “So petty me canceled their vacation without telling them after I knew they were on their way to the destination. Yes, there are fees but I don’t care,” they wrote. “I know they will be to[o] stingy to book anything else and will instead return all the way back home fuming and annoyed.”.
The post has quickly gone viral, with more than 8,000 upvotes. In the comments, the Reddit user responded to some people who critcized them for gifting such an expensive present to a family member they weren’t close to. They poster went on to claim that they were “trapped in” the feeling of needing to help their family and feeling “guilty” about not being there for them.
