A Christmas Gift

Tomorrow night, I've been invited to attend another high school "re-union." It's the third one this year, with the last one occurring a mere three weeks ago. (Missed that one though). Regardless, one of our friends now lives in South Carolina, and will be in town for Christmas, so another friend has organized a get together.

The latter friend, let's call her Donna, because that's her name, and I used to walk home from high school together. Our route passed through the downtown area. One day, Donna and I were throwing around her mitts, and I accidentally threw one of the mitts onto the awning of a local store. The mitts were white rabbit fur, if you can imagine. We went into the store, to ask if we could borrow a broom, and the lady yelled at us: "NO...You will bend the aluminum." We leave the store, and Donna takes her last remaining glove and throws it up on the awning as well. I felt horrible about it.

Fast forward, oh about 20 plus years, to last summer's reunion and Donna tells the story, in much more detail than I knew. Donna came from a large family, and had bugged and bugged her mother to get her a pair of these mitts, which wouldn't have been cheap. She finally does, and I throw one up on the awning.

Part 2 of the story, is that she talks mom into buying her another pair. Donna and another friend Debbie, visit the local arena. Debbie hides one of Donna's gloves. Thinking that her glove is lost, Donna throws away her last remaining glove (see a pattern here?). Debbie shows up with the hidden glove, and of course, they couldn't find the one that had been tossed.

I decided I would replace the mitts from so long ago. I wasn't able to find white rabbit fur mitts, as I guess that they are no longer politically correct. The closest I could find were a pair of white wool mittens. They are all wrapped up in a gift bag, and will be presented to Donna tomorrow night, with a little note apologizing for the long delay in replacing them.

I think it will be very funny...will let you know how they go over.