I once asked my ex-girlfriend why she was by then my 
ex-girlfriend.
Her reply: "
Do you remember the vacuum cleaner that you bought me for Christmas..." 
 
[Although that is a joke, I 
DID actually buy her a vacuum cleaner for Christmas... In my defence, it wasn't the 
ONLY thing that I bought her that Christmas. And the other presents were 
NOT practical! Her vacuum cleaner had packed up and she couldn't afford another one. And we didn't live together so I wasn't expecting her to do 
MY cleaning with it!]