Do you feel insulted if someone gives you a holiday gift that you feel is substandard?

A good friend of mine called me up and told me about something that occurred at her job. I have mentioned her several times here in the past year, as she suffered some trauma, is now a hypochondriac and goes to the doctor a lot, is obsessed with what seem to be relatively minor health ailments, etc.

Anyway, long story short she works in an office with one other female and they both do the secretarial work. The other female has been there about a year, which is precisely the time period of my friend suffering her trauma and going through her mental health issues. My friend gave the other female some plentiful gifts (throw/blanket and two other things) and is insulted that the coworker gave her one paltry gift (a water bottle).

Do you feel that if someone gives you a gift that is paltry, it’s an insult?

I will leave my opinion off for now, and comment farther down the thread and tell you what I told my friend.