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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Honor First who wrote (125539)	11/25/2006 5:00:54 PM
From: Naomi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Yes, I vaguely remember my DIL mentioning "like a white elephant party". I think this will be very interesting as we watch our children make their choices. Oh, this reminds me of a Christmas long ago wherein a big box with a huge green cellophane bow arrived at our front door about a week before Christmas for my husband. When he got home that evening I asked him to open it and he said, "No, I won't open it up until Christmas morning". OK, so I put it to the back of the tree as it was so large. Christmas morning the kids distributed all the presents, but did not move it from the tree. I went over to pick it up to give to my husband and the bottom fell out of it and the odor nearly knocked me out...it was a 22 pound turkey that had defrosted and spoiled. The odor quickly filled the room and the kids kept saying how yucky the room smelled. My Mom and Dad were also there and my Mom held her nose. There was nary a notation on the box that the gift should be refrigerated upon arrival. My husband's job was to get it out of the house without spilling any of the residue from the box. The garbage pickup wasn't due for two days and the smell permeated the whole back yard. Had him remove it to outside our gate and thought surely our neighbors would complain or think we had murdered someone. Hence from that time, anything that was delivered during the holidays I have opened and told him I would do so. We laughed about it later, but we had terrazo floors and it took weeks for that spot to dry out and I even stripped the floors, which was an extensive job for me, and put new wax down. He had also received a case of twelve year old Scotch whiskey and when the garbage men arrived, I ran out and gave them a bottle of it for dealing with our spoils. When he went to put it away in the liquor cabinet, he noticed one bottle missing and asked me who took it. I grinned and told him what I had done and the look of surprise and shock was so funny, I started laughing and said, "they deserved it for having to deal with your mistake of not opening it when it arrived. He looked at me and said, "I just CAN'T BELIEVE you gave them that expensive a bottle of whiskey"! Told him they smiled and thanked me over and over again for it. That story comes up often about past Christmas happenings and still brings many laughs from us all. He still tells it too as "dumb blond" joke on me. Needless to say, we could put anything in our garbage from then on and if I was out when they came they would ask me if I had anything really smelly I wanted to get rid of as a hint. Never did that again, but thought it was a great idea at the time, since I never drink Scotch! Also, I thought it was a good will kind of thing to do for them having to smell it on the job. <ggg>