Time to prepare your present face

Dec 23, 2010, 6:52 AM | Updated: Mar 28, 2011, 3:48 pm

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Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Time to prepare your present face

Yes, the best part of Christmas, the commercial side of it anyway, is about over, and that’s… the anticipation.

We’ve spent weeks anticipating the family all coming together, but once they do — and after the hugs and the “it’s so great you’re here!” what do you talk about? The great Lame Duck session?

No of course not! You open presents! But NO present can live up to the anticipation either, like this timeless YouTube clip of the three year old boy who was expecting a toy and instead got — a book:

Yeah! A truck, the Fisher Price Flamethrower kit, Daddy’s laser pen maybe… but a book?

The only book a little boy is ever going to want is his big sister’s diary. But as he grows up, he will learn to cultivate what YouTubers Garfunkel and Oates call your Present Face:

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