Kanye’s Ride Is My Mango

Help me out here. I am not married to a multi-millionaire, nor have I ever dated one, so maybe I’m off base here, but if you have the dough to buy it yourself, is a “cool” expensive gift that cool just because someone else bought it for you?

Kim Kardashian bought her boyfriend, Kanye West, a $750,000 Lamborghini for his 35th birthday. So, here’s my perspective. If someone did that for me, great, incredible, absolutely outrageous. I can’t afford a sick ride like that. I’d love it, and if it was my significant other, even better.

Okay, let’s say I do make a lot of money and theoretically could afford said car, but due to other financial responsibilities, although I’d want one, it’s just not something I would buy just yet. That being the case, again, super! My woman 

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sees what I want, but knows I am not going to spend my own cash for it, so I’ll never own the car, unless she buys it for me. Very caring, awfully romantic.

But, let’s look at Kanye West. He does have the cash and it appears that he can, by all means, pick up one of these vehicles on his own. He just hasn’t. He’s chosen other toys instead. So, what makes this gift so special? It’s like my wife buying me a mango. I generally buy cantaloupes. I can afford a mango. If I wanted one badly enough, I’d get it myself. So, yeah, cool, I’ve got a mango, and she bought it for me, but, big deal. If I really wanted one, I’d have gotten it for myself.

See, what makes a gift special is if it’s something someone has mentioned or hinted at, but just can’t see getting for themselves (“I sure do think mangos are a good looking fruit. I’d love to try one one day if given the opportunity, but if I’m buying, I’m going with my old cantaloupe stand-by.”) Or, if you make it special. Kim could have pimped out Kanye’s ride with a Hello Kitty interior (assuming that was what he was into) and a license plate that read “Knye Kat”. 

I have very prominent ears. No, they are not big (actually, rather small in an apricot sort of way), but they do stick out, a la Charlie Brown. If my wife came home with a mango in the shape of my head, that I would appreciate.

Look, all I’m saying is a gift isn’t special just because it’s expensive. Thought goes into good gifts. Some of the best cost little or nothing. On the other hand, some of the best also cost an arm and a leg, but if they are “some of the best”, more than money goes into them. Thought is an integral part of the equation!