Allow me to share with you a conversation Channing and I had on Saturday as we were shopping at Target.
Chan: Oh, look, The Saint is only $5.50! We have to get it!
Dee: Um...okay...
(Chan puts DVD in cart)
Dee: Honey, why don't you put that back. It is Christmas...
Chan: Deidre, it's only $5.50 and you said you were done with my Christmas presents.
Dee: Well, why don't you go ahead and put it back?
Chan: Why, are you gonna tell your mom? She has enough ideas for me.
Dee: Honey, please put it back.
Chan: Why, are you gonna call her right now? That kinda ruins the surprise.
(He still doesn't put it back)
Dee: Well, how about I ruin the surprise and tell you that it's already at home in my sock drawer. Please put the movie back.
Channing had mentioned liking The Saint a long time ago. And when I went to Memphis last month without him, I saw it at Target for such a great price, and bought it. I thought, "What a wonderful stocking stuffer this will make!"
I think he learned his lesson and won't try to buy things like movies and music for himself around Christmas ever again!
Monday, December 18, 2006
The Saint
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That is so funny! I can totally see the confusion on his face of why you are asking him to put it back. It really and truly must be a guy thing. Matt and I have done that before.
We've done that before too. Sheesh, guys just can't take subtle hints. :)
Ok, I am still laughing out loud! I think that's the funniest blog yet. Or maybe I'm just in a mood and it hit me the right way. I just love you guys! And I'm still laughing!! I wish I could've seen that boy's face. HA!
Wendy
What is with guys that they can't catch the non-verbal cues we send out... my dad and gary do the same thing to me and my mom all the time! :)
I just laughed when I read that. I have had conversations like this before, both on the giving and receiving end. One year my friend Vickey was in the hospital and we stopped for a visit. We were talking about "Everybody Loves Raymond" and the DVD sets and I was saying that I was going to go buy it and Vickey was like, don't do that. It wasn't near Christmas so I couldn't figure out why she would say that, but apparently she was up on things for my birthday. So I found out that day in the hospital what I was getting. It certainly does take away the element of surprise!
Channing,
In the future, don't break the sacred rules of Christmas.
1) Never open the trunk if you weren't the last to close it.
2) Don't buy things for yourself in the final 30 days before the big day. But hint heavily.
3) Never buy ONLY housewares for your wife.
4) And in the new age of high-tech shopping, never CC your husband on the email to tell his sister his new leather coat will be arriving at her house. (this year's debaucle)
Happy New Year, you guys!
Lara :)
THAT IS 2 FUNNY! MICHAEL DOES THAT TO ME ALL THE TIME.
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