Thursday, March 09, 2006

When is a gift of coffee a bad idea?

Recently, I was at a company where we had a "Secret Santa". Everyone picked a name and bought that person a gift. My coworker didn't know what to get the person he chose. We knew that person loved coffee so we suggested he buy him some packages of coffee beans. He did.

We all thought that this was a good idea. However, culturalisms have ways to make life interesting.

The coworker who received the coffee is from Albania. We later learned that coffee is the traditional gift that Albanians receive when someone dies.

Good intentions, unexpected results.

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