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dragonlady7) wrote2017-09-05 10:04 pm
dragonlady7) wrote2017-09-05 10:04 pm
One of the things about my mother is that she
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One of the things about my mother is that she doesn’t ever put notes in packages.
When I was in college, I can’t tell you how many times I got an unexpected package and opened it to retrieve some inexplicable item and then upended it to discover no explanation. The prizewinner was about sophomore year of college when I got an envelope containing a single pair of satin floral-print women’s panties in my size with the pricetag still partially attached, which I opened at the lunch table in front of a bunch of acquaintances, mostly young men. (I assume Mom saw a 4 for $x sale and bought a pair for each of her daughters, but that’s just me assuming because I know JCPenney was into that at the time, and she often took it as a sign.)
Now, my mother’s handwriting on the return address was normally enough that at least I didn’t assume I had a stalker or anything.
But in this day and age of Amazon wishlists…
well, things keep turning up at my house, two weeks now after my birthday, and I’m just going to go ahead and assume they’re from my mother, because they’re things I had on my wishlist, but I genuinely have no idea. Amazon lets you include a gift message for free!! These things are turning up with no receipt paperwork of any kind. A sewing machine carrying case was delivered in a box big enough that i could live in it. I just got some neon embroidery floss. I’m assuming my mother’s behind all of it, but how much stuff did she get me?? I put a lot of things on the wishlist so she’d have choices, not so she’d keep shopping!
Well. I appreciate it, and I assume it’s all from her, but if not, well, whoever else is buying me stuff, thanks, I have no way of knowing…
One of the things about my mother is that she doesn’t ever put notes in packages.
When I was in college, I can’t tell you how many times I got an unexpected package and opened it to retrieve some inexplicable item and then upended it to discover no explanation. The prizewinner was about sophomore year of college when I got an envelope containing a single pair of satin floral-print women’s panties in my size with the pricetag still partially attached, which I opened at the lunch table in front of a bunch of acquaintances, mostly young men. (I assume Mom saw a 4 for $x sale and bought a pair for each of her daughters, but that’s just me assuming because I know JCPenney was into that at the time, and she often took it as a sign.)
Now, my mother’s handwriting on the return address was normally enough that at least I didn’t assume I had a stalker or anything.
But in this day and age of Amazon wishlists…
well, things keep turning up at my house, two weeks now after my birthday, and I’m just going to go ahead and assume they’re from my mother, because they’re things I had on my wishlist, but I genuinely have no idea. Amazon lets you include a gift message for free!! These things are turning up with no receipt paperwork of any kind. A sewing machine carrying case was delivered in a box big enough that i could live in it. I just got some neon embroidery floss. I’m assuming my mother’s behind all of it, but how much stuff did she get me?? I put a lot of things on the wishlist so she’d have choices, not so she’d keep shopping!
Well. I appreciate it, and I assume it’s all from her, but if not, well, whoever else is buying me stuff, thanks, I have no way of knowing…