It Finally Happened
34Mail just showed up. A couple of packages from meh are in it. One for me, one for @Humper. Being December, we have a "if it's not addressed to you, don't look closely" rule. So, he walks into the office and hands me my package. I look up and say "Thank you." As I'm doing that, we both look at the seemingly identical package the other person is holding...
We both bought the same thing, in the same quantity, for each other as a stocking stuffer. I don't think this has ever happened in our (soon to be) 7 Christmases together. Meh, you made it a first.
We're still totally putting them in each other's stockings, btw.
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Ah you guys are just the sweetest
@Thumperchick I thought you were going to say that @hollboll had sent out the prizes and I just about had a heart attack. Be still my heart!
@Barney Did I hear something about prizes?! Oh...false alarm, *shifts slowly back into the darkness.
You should totally send him a thank you card.
That's adorable!
Now a days, @chaoscatapult simply shakes her head and ignores the fact that a Meh packages arrives at the house at least once a week.
@studerc only once a week?
A friend and I try to spend a day baking Christmas cookies together every year. Of course, when you start running out of dough, you just kind of slap things together into something vaguely cookie-ish. One year, a vaguely cookie-ish thing was also vaguely bucket-ish, and the inside joke of the Christmas Bucket was born. That year, we unknowingly made each other books telling the story of the Christmas Bucket. That was a good Christmas.
@brhfl That's a sign of an incredible friendship! Awesome story.
@brhfl How similar were the stories?
Storybook!
Which one of you actually bought it for themselves?
Totally kidding, It really is heartwarming that you two are so sympatico. sniff
@KDemo That's what funny... we both sort of did. We bought 2 each - 1 for the other's stocking, 1 to stash around the house/car...
My parents did that one year, they both bought the same toy Ambulance with sounds and lights for the other. (They both volunteered with the local rescue squad)
@thumperchick well that went much better than it did when I did that for my wife... it ended her all upset cause I ruined one of the best gifts she got for me... I really should read boxes more carefully... usually I see Meh and continue.
@sohmageek You're not alone. I opened a really heavy but suspiciously book-shaped box from Amazon last year while trying to remember what the hell I'd ordered. Slid it out just enough to see a corner of a Tardis, and immediately shoved it back into the box. I confessed to The Spouse that I'd opened it, but then fibbed and said when I didn't recognize the color of whatever it was I stopped looking. Almost true, thank heavens, because he thought he'd found the perfect gift for me, and I'd have been miserable if I'd spoiled his excitement.
The family rule is that no one buys anything for themselves (meh stuff doesn't count) from November 1 through Christmas. And I'm much more careful about opening things these days.
So what did you buy for each other and the house?
My husband called one day in late November, to let me know a box came and he opened it, wanting to know what I purchased for our son for Christmas. Too bad it was the laptop my son and I purchased for Dad for Christmas. For a month, I let Dad think the computer was for the kid, during which time Dad angled every which way trying to figure out how he could just "hand his laptop down", and score the ultra fast new one. It was torture but I kept the surprise and Dad had a nice new computer under the tree.