So, this week, my mother cornered me and pestered until I actually gave her a christmas list (for the first time in years, so I suppose she had reason.)
I try very hard not to take advantage of her and my dad, and I tend to get very upset when my sisters use our parents as their own personal ATM machines, so when it came time to make a Christmas list, I went through my amazon wish list, and was very careful to keep each item I suggested to her, under $50, at least until it came to the last item, the one I added -knowing- that I wouldn’t get it, that she and my dad wouldn’t go for it.
She calls me back a few hours later, with the words I had been expecting…. “you know you can’t have that desk...” but she didn’t stop there. “it’s solid glass, you’ll get hurt. Lets find one that will be safer for you.”
After I took a moment to pick my jaw up off the floor, we spent the next several hours going through options, until we settled on one that was more than twice the cost of the one I had first suggested. So I felt like a heel for a little bit there.
www.amazon.com/…
This showed up on our doorstep at 7am yesterday. I look forward to enjoying this one for years! Even if I don’t think I deserve it.
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