Monday, November 19, 2018

This is the Season

This is the season —the season for catalogues with their array of gifts that defy reason. Years ago someone gave me a golf sized plastic tube in the shape of a golf driver. A long straw like appendage protruded from the side of the driver and this was attached to a tube within the outer tube. Fortunately directions came along with the gift.

The golfer , it stated, added a liquid to the tube inside the tube within the plastic golf driver and while playing could have a drink. Of course I thought this was absurd.

The friend who bought this ludicrous gift purchased it , and other gifts, while taking a long flight and having, I assume, nothing too read. She picked up the magazine that is usually tucked into the pocket of the seat in front of your seat—pursued the magazine and was lured into the purchases by glossy pictures and a slick sell.

I kept this item in the basement for years until we cleaned the basement and I thought of donating it to Good Will, but caught myself before proceeding and simply assigned it to trash.

By that time the friend had moved. She never did ask me if I used the gift—but I did thank her with an appropriate thank you note.

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