There are general rules about gift-giving.

            If an invitation says no gifts, then you don’t appear with a gift in hand.

            If it says bring a gift for a shelter pet or a hospitalized child, then you don’t show up with an expensive bottle of wine. Or a fancy crystal platter.

            When someone hands you a gift, you thank them even if it’s something you can’t stand. Or if you’d specified no gifts. Or if it’s your in-laws whom you don’t want to offend.

            Your task is to write a story in which an unusual and perhaps unwanted gift is involved.

            Have fun with this one.