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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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13 January 2003 - 9:22 am
At the beginning of Christmas break, I gave you a run-down of the wacky presents my grandmother had gotten me for Christmas. But all of my gifts, the cordless iron, the flatware, the $25 in quarters, all pales in comparison to one of the gifts she gave my dad. Giving out mixed nuts at Christmas is kind of a family tradition. When my grandpa was still alive each family would get a jar of Rotarian nuts. Now that my grandfather isn't around, my grandmother, cut off from her supply of Rotarian nuts, has had to resort to more mundane mixed nuts purchases. This year she gave my dad what looked to be a fairly innocuous box of nuts. I should mention at this point that all of my grandmother's Christmas gift buying is done months and years before the gifts are given. Then, closer to Christmas time, she goes shopping in her closets and pantry and finds odds and ends to give me, my cousins, my parents, and my aunt and uncle. Well, this year she apparently didn't look too closely at some of the things she wrapped up, because my dad got an opened and half eaten box of stale nuts this year. Needless to say, no one in my family was very surprised by this when it was brought to their attention.
Posted by on 12 January 2003 at 7:45 PM
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