First, let me get this out of the way, I received my gift the Monday after Christmas, which was an issue for me since I got a new job that required me to leave 2 days later and spend most of the next few months on the road away from home. Excuse? Yes. Valid? Maybe. Lazy/Forgetful/Distrated/Bad Human? Most of those.

That said, let me delve into the gift and it's unique, humorous glory. (also this is super long, but worth it... and nobody else is posting a redditgifts Xmas post right now, so come on)

My redditor gifter sent an amazing gift. She went beyond... I say this after the fact of course. When I opened the box, I found 3 items. I had no clue what to expect. I listed a couple sports teams I like, a few reddit subs and the fact that I like movies and TV, like to create content and want to create an emulator to play old school games.

My items: a Royals baseball, an LA Kings beanie and lastly a very odd USB which had been opened and then stuffed back into the packaging and in marker letters written "INSERT ME FIRST". I may be a few of the previously mentioned character traits, but I am not dumb. I was like, "No fucking way am I putting that USB into anything. Some random-ass redditor jackknob is gonna give me a virus and corrupt my everything or steal my anything." But I was curious and so was my wife. So she went upstairs and grabbed her old computer. For reference, when she opened it up, the calendar was on may 2016 (it didn't connect to our wifi because our wifi is like 4-5 routers/network name changes since May 2016).

We opted to not connect the mac to our new Wifi network and let it live in 2016 while we had this shady-ass USB plugged in, so we felt okay using the old mac. We were rewarded! On it there was a zip called "Totally Not A Virus...But Really Tho...OPEN ME!!" That revealed a txt file called "1. Start Here" and 3 folder labeled "Gift Part #1, #2 & #3".

"1. Start Here" read as such: Huge mistake putting a strange flash drive in your computer. Every virus SAYS it's not a virus. IF this was a virus (which would be a genius move on my part), you would be so screwed right now. However, as it seems like you don't give a flying f*** about your security, you may as well press on.

We were prepared and did it right. Crisis avoided. When we opened the folder for Part 1, I immediately knew this was gonna be something special I saw folders labeled Mac, N64 Roms, Sega Roms, Windows. Here's the "READ ME" from that folder: You mentioned you would like to create emulators for Sega and N64. Now listen, that's cute, but these particular wheels have already been carved out fairly well already. Feel free to reinvent them if you please of course, but you may find that handling input from a controller is a bigger pain in the a** than you expected. Either way, I've included a popular one for each (for both windows/mac) in case you decide making your own isn't worth the hassle...(lots of good info and specifics in this section, so I'll skip ahead to more humor from her)...Feel free to virus scan any/all of this obviously, or just go to the sites and download the stuff on your own. Seriously tho, if I was going to infect your s*** I would've done it already...(more tech info, but clearly she put a lot of work into this)...This is obviously more just a starting point to build your library, but hopefully it'll be a good start!

Part 2: "As someone that enjoys producing content, I thought you might enjoy this delightful piece of trash that I created JUST FOR YOU! I enjoy making comedy videos. Now usually I just act in them so they turn out pretty well, but as you'll soon see I should NOT be responsible for writing, shooting, editing...really anything else involved in this process AT ALL. ANYWAY... ENJOY!!

The movie clocks in at just under 2 minutes and... is... special. She said it was written, produced and edited just for me and since I'm not her and don't have her permission, I'm not gonna post it. But it was... Funny, fantastic and special. It was great we laughed we cried. We laughed again and we thought about Christmas and how it brings us all together. But mostly we laughed.

Part 3: "Obviously I didn't really need this folder, but I had a pattern going and I like to stick to those. I thought it would be much more fun for everyone involved here to do something creative gift-wise, but, in the likely event that I've struck out with the previous two attempts at giving you something you might enjoy/laugh at, I've also included: - this cool ONLY USED ONCE, RIGHT NOW, TO COPY THIS CONTENT flash drive - one REALLY RAD hat - one SUPER SWELL SHOULD PROBABLY NEVER BE USED SO AS NOT TO DAMAGE IT baseball/paperweight/other thing maybe? (I don't know your life) To TVTrev from winkiewonkie, HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!"

Wow. winkiewonkie, you blew me out of the water. Unbelievable gift. Thank you and Merry Christmas back.

My apologies again for taking so long, yes, I suck, but in fairness I have been on 24 flights, been in 4 states, lived in 2 and worked 27 shows accounting for over 110 hours of live TV since Jan. 1st. Excuse? Yes. Valid? Maybe.

Thanks again winkiewonkie, you are awesome!