So okay, I have a story to share, but first there's some background to set it up.
At the high school I attended, there's this exclusive, "high-standard" student choir. Less than twenty students (closer to 16 or so) in the entire school are given the privilege to join, and those that do manage to make it in are treated like they're God's gift to the school, they're given special treatment comparable to those on the championship-winning football team, etc. etc., even though for the most part they aren't even that good at singing (the music director selects its members not by their singing ability, he chooses the students he likes best). Predictably, this fosters an attitude among most of the members of the choir that they're hot shit, and they tend to develop holier-than-thou attitudes and just turn into total dickwads, if they weren't already.
So the general attitude among the rest of the "lower-rung" students is that the exclusive choir is overrated bullshit and is the subject of derision (but never to their faces or anywhere the faculty can hear, of course!). My one brother and I, having attended the school around the same time (he's three years younger than me, so our high school tenures overlapped for one year), and neither of us being into the performing arts, would often joke about them, even after graduating high school since these assholes keep showing up at local businesses to perform.
My youngest brother (10 years my junior), on the other hand, is big into acting and singing. He's been dying to be accepted into the exclusive choir, and this year, as a sophomore, he made it in. (He's an awesome, sweet kid though - he should be, I helped raise him - and is in no danger of becoming an asshole because of it, though. He didn't join for the social standing or to show off, the kid just loves to sing.) He doesn't seem to be enjoying it that much, because while the choir itself is a clique, there are cliques inside the choir as well; people only really socialize within their vocal range groups. My brother is a bass, and all the other bass singers are crude and full of themselves and just all-around assholes. My brother's longtime friends in the choir, the people he actually likes, are girls in alto/soprano.
NOW HERE'S THE ACTUAL STORY: The choir did a Secret Santa among them, and the person my brother had to buy a gift for was one of the other bass singers, ie. a disgusting asshole. The other basses kept urging my brother to buy the guy a box of condoms as his gift, but my brother really didn't want to. He had the idea of buying him a mirror, referencing when the guy had run for student council president - his entire campaign strategy was hanging up posters that were essentially erotic pinups of himself. My parents vehemently opposed to both of these gift ideas, telling my brother that no matter how narcissistic this guy may seem, getting him such a gift, and having him open it in front of every one else, could be incredibly embarrassing to him, resulting in everyone laughing at him (rather than with him). In the end, my brother bought him a board game that he himself absolutely loves playing with his friends at parties.
When my brother came home from the gift exchange, my parents asked how the guy liked his gift. My brother gave a noncommittal answer all like, "oh, he was okay with it, I guess," but soon he revealed what actually happened.
The guy my brother gave a gift to was assigned to give a gift to the son of one of my mom's friends - a sweet, well-behaved freshman boy.
The jerkass gave the fourteen-year-old kid a box of condoms.
Needless to say, the kid was not at all happy with the gift he got, so dickwad offered to trade gifts. Sweet kid ended up with the board game, and assface bought himself what he wanted for himself.
My parents were pretty livid that the guy did such a humiliating thing to this super-nice kid they've known since he was a toddler and probably are only glad that my brother gave him such a good gift because that meant the nice kid could go home with something.
Moral of the story is I was right the exclusive choir is bullshit.
