Our
youngest daughter (yes, there's a theme here) called her sister. "Do you
know what Mama and Daddy want for Christmas?" Before she could answer, our
youngest continued, "Dad says he wants a pair of socks and Mama wants a
fork." "So?" "I just think that is sick. What do I tell my
friends? Oh, yeah, for Christmas, I'm giving my father socks and my mother a
fork." Of course this part of the conversation was related to me from her
sister, who found the entire story fairly humorous.
Some
background here - our youngest daughter asked for a Christmas list from my DH
earlier this week. After much of "I really don't want or need anything . .
. yada yada yada," my DH emailed her back that he would like several pairs
of socks. And, he sent her the exact style, type, size, and color he wanted.
And, mind you, we are not talking about plain brown gold toe polyester socks.
As
for the fork, a while back I started working on a set of eight place settings
of sterling silver with each piece being in a different old sterling pattern.
There are so many discontinued exquisite sterling patterns that I could never
select (or afford) one complete pattern. However, I knew I could collect (as a
most reasonable price) pieces from the many hundreds of different patterns.
(Individual pieces are much easier to find than complete sets.) I also seek out
elaborately engraved and monogrammed pieces. In fact one of my prized pieces
has the dates "1892 - 1917" engraved on the back of the fork. Given
the age of the pattern, I assume that marked some 25th anniversary. - almost
one hundred years ago.
My
youngest daughter had also commented, "And, I'm not going to buy a used
fork as a gift. Who wants to eat with something that belonged to someone who's
dead?" Her sister reminded her that she had grown up eating on her late
great grandmother's sterling and never found that offensive. "That's
different. We were kin. But Mom's talking about forks and spoons with other
people's initials on it." "So?" "If they wanted someone
else to have it, they would not have put their initials on it."
My
DH used to tell her if she was bad Santa was going to bring her a broke'
monkey. I guess is doesn't matter how stupid she thinks I am, I'm not getting a
"used" fork for Christmas. Did I ask for too much?
No, you didn't ask for too much; you asked VSW!
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