A lesson in re-purposing

Ever gotten a booklet as a birthday "gift" that might as well be titled "I am judging the way you live your life and find you lacking," full of testimonials written by people who used to, unfortunately, be like you, but have since "corrected" their misguided ways, and you're somewhat confused and slightly offended, because you are a good person leading your life in a good way, caring about others, and your life is not in need of "correction," but this person who gifted this booklet to you clearly disagrees?  Yes, well, I have discovered how to turn this into a fabulous (and useful) gift -- Do dramatic readings of each first-person testimonial/ story in a different accent with a different character.  Better yet, switch part-way through one story from a mature Romanian fortune teller to a trailer park southern girl to an upscale British society lady to a Cockney girl to a Polish Chicagoan.  Really amazing acting/ dialect exercise.  And I wasn't the slightest bit annoyed with the gift by the time I was done.