Between Etsy, Swap-bot, and Bookmooch, I send and receive many packages a week. And, often I’ll come home to a pile of boxes and padded envelopes waiting for me on the couch. Today was no exception. I had a shiny red bubble mailer from France and a brown paper box without a return address.
I focused first on the shiny. I’m expecting an keychain from Paris. But it was a Kenny G cd. I’ll not time to talk more about that here. You can convo me if you like Kenny G and I’ll mail it to you. Next I moved to the brown box. It looked simple and plain. I was expecting it to be from my secret sister at church because there was no return address. But it did have a location on the postage meter from NC. So I figured the sender must have left off the return address on accident. Then I saw the postage was only $.40. I started wondering aloud how they got away with that and I asked my husband if there was any postage due card with the package. That had me confused. It was kind of heavy, but not too heavy. Oh well, I guess they got away with cheap shipping. On to opening my “present” as I like to call my swaps and such.
I opened up the package and was suddenly happy. This swapper knew me well. I recognized the bottom of a Lindt truffle bag. I yelled to my husband in the other room, “Wanna know what I got?”
“No.”
“That’s okay, I don’t want to share my 60% Extra Dark Lindor truffles with you anyway,” I pouted. I like it when he shows an interest in my stuff and he certainly was not in the mood to care. (Or so I thought.)
Then I saw a big envelope. I pulled it out and started to rip the wrapping. Suddenly it hit me. A swapper found out that my anniversary was on the 19th and sent “us” a gift. I would have to share the truffles.
“Oh, crap! It’s an anniversary card.”
My hubby came out smiling. Oops. That came out wrong. It was all a set up from him. The candy was from him. The card was from him. He took one of my brown boxes off my shelf, wrote address on it, and taped a used postage sticker to the box. Then he hid it in my mail. Luckily he was so happy to pull a fast one on me that he didn’t mind my comment at all. And he didn’t make me share the chocolate. I gave him one anyway.
Mmmm…a thoughtful husband and chocolate. What a perfect day!
Oh your hubby is such a sweetie! How fun! Happy Anniversary. HOpe you get many more like this one and that he always remains a romantic.
Comment by Alyice Edrich — March 22, 2008 @ 8:16 pm |