I know how you feel bro, that's how it usually for me....a lot of work and effort on my part just to have it go unnoticed. Luckily for me that wasn't the case with this car. I bought it two months ago and like you, spent days going through it. She cried when I gave her the keys which made it all worth it.I quit asking for the gift stuff about 15 years ago. My XMas's have been so much more stress free since then. I helped my G/f get her daughter a car for Xmas. A 2001 Corolla. Clean little car. I was getting into the whole, this is gonna be sooo cool to watch the happiness vibe going. I tuned it up, tweaked it up and went over it with a fine tooth comb for 3 weeks. Even hid it away (the hardest part). I was actually thinking this is gonna be so cooool. The day comes, we get the car to the driveway, put a big bow on it. All the while she never suspected a thing. So I get the video ready. Out she comes, because she opened the gift with the car key in it. Came out, looked at the car and you could tell it was like dead air. She sat in it, and immediately came up with the I don't like this, and I don't like that. I watched her mom's heart sink. I will again thank God for my vasectomy.
I know how you feel bro, that's how it usually for me....a lot of work and effort on my part just to have it go unnoticed. Luckily for me that wasn't the case with this car. I bought it two months ago and like you, spent days going through it. She cried when I gave her the keys which made it all worth it.
I did it to all to help my g/f enjoy the whole giving the car to her daughter part. That is where my pleasure was derived. The fact that it was her daughter was a distant second to me. It made me sad to see the kid act so ungrateful about it. I wanted to smack her for crushing her mom after all the hours she and I put into searching, buying and then prepping the car. Man if someone gave me a car, any kind of car, I'd be so grateful as a kid. She has had it since the 24th now. She has to be drug into going somewhere in it. Hell I'd drive the dang thing. It is nicer than my first 3 cars I ever had. If it were my kid, I'd have a For Sale sign on it already. The latest complaint today. It doesn't have power seats and the headlights don't come on automatically. *shaking head*....times have changed so.