VorpelSword
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At the dinner table this Christmas, our son and daughter-in-law told a story that is now part of family lore. Several years ago, they celebrated Christmas with her parents and her siblings along with everyone's cousins . . .jubilant Chrismas chaos. The agreement was that there would be no gifts for the adults and only one gift from each family for each of the kids . . . .a reasonable effort to keep it all down to a manageable (affordable) low roar.
But one of her brothers was newly successful in real-estate, wildly so. Still single and still living with their par4ents then, he had had an unexpectedly very good year. So he showed up with a $h!+-load of gifts unauthorized by the family conscienceis. Of course, the cousens did pretty well with dolls and Nurf guns galore. All the adult women got nice things, but . . .
All the guys got these really nice Kershaw knives; large, aggressively butch looking and assisted opening (the details are not clear). Except for our son. For some reason, he gotr this "special gift". He got a very expensive, high end, premium brand bait casting reel. Now, he has caught fish, but is not an avid fisherman. That brother-in-law was visiting them alone around New Years and wanted to help our son get the reel m pointed and "set-up" , but was horrified to see the Walmart special rod it was to go on. So they all went down to Dicks or Academy, and he helped our son pick out some worthy but well over $250 rod for the reel, along with fishing line that, as the story goes, cost $20 a foot (the egg nog was going around by tis point in the telling). Further, he opened the package and spooled up the line . . .no returning any of this stuff now for something costing less than a weekend at a five-star hotel. The whole joke is that the brother-in-law was then, and still is, oblivious to how much this wounds up costing our son who wouldn't embarrass the young man's well-intentioned attempt at gift giving.
And that is the family story about how "everyone got a cool knife but me!" . . . and then, someone said, " . . .it was a Christmas miricle!"
But one of her brothers was newly successful in real-estate, wildly so. Still single and still living with their par4ents then, he had had an unexpectedly very good year. So he showed up with a $h!+-load of gifts unauthorized by the family conscienceis. Of course, the cousens did pretty well with dolls and Nurf guns galore. All the adult women got nice things, but . . .
All the guys got these really nice Kershaw knives; large, aggressively butch looking and assisted opening (the details are not clear). Except for our son. For some reason, he gotr this "special gift". He got a very expensive, high end, premium brand bait casting reel. Now, he has caught fish, but is not an avid fisherman. That brother-in-law was visiting them alone around New Years and wanted to help our son get the reel m pointed and "set-up" , but was horrified to see the Walmart special rod it was to go on. So they all went down to Dicks or Academy, and he helped our son pick out some worthy but well over $250 rod for the reel, along with fishing line that, as the story goes, cost $20 a foot (the egg nog was going around by tis point in the telling). Further, he opened the package and spooled up the line . . .no returning any of this stuff now for something costing less than a weekend at a five-star hotel. The whole joke is that the brother-in-law was then, and still is, oblivious to how much this wounds up costing our son who wouldn't embarrass the young man's well-intentioned attempt at gift giving.
And that is the family story about how "everyone got a cool knife but me!" . . . and then, someone said, " . . .it was a Christmas miricle!"