Can be a general thread but my specific problem is... My dad bought me a year subscription to our local bike sharing service for Xmas. He's suggested I use it in the past but I told him several times it wouldn't be useful to me, because the places you pick up/leave the bikes are places I can just get to with the train/bus, and my actual transportation problem is getting to places I can't use public transportation for. Of course, my dad is the type that once he gets an idea he can't let it go, so he got it for me anyway. If I had my own bike I'd use it, I think, but this is too restrictive wrt where I need to go. Plus figuring out how it works is hell on my executive dysfunction just thinking about it. I really...really doubt I'll ever use this, and it's some e gift card thing so I have to activate it. It bugs me because it feels like a huge waste of money and I don't know what to do about it. I could let it sit, I guess. It's not as if my parents will suffer for it, they're well off, but I'm ashamed of wasting it. I just can't realistically see myself using it ever. Is it reasonable to try to give it to someone else? Try to ask my dad to take it back somehow? I don't know.
Depends on how safe you feel trying to assert boundaries with your dad. If you feel secure, give it back to him telling him that you've already told him that you won't use it, and ask why he bought it for you anyway. Put him on the spot about it. But if you're not comfortable with that, yeah, regifting is totally an option there.
