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40cakesThe fates have aligned and decided I can never have an iPod.
I was beginning to accept I'd never get one through freeipods. Every time I thought I finally had my fifth person, they didn't do the ad, or got rejected for the credit card or whatever. Despite the fact that people I referred got their iPods (one person is on his second), and here I am with just four out of five friends. I was at peace.
Tonight, at the second of three parties, we play the "Pick the gift out of the pile" game. You know, where people pick presents and they can either pick a wrapped gift or something someone else already opened. Fun. One of the rules, as the game is explained, is "A gift can only be taken twice." The way they explain it sounds like "If you have two things taken away, you can't have anything else taken away."
I open a cooler/FM radio. It's taken away.
I open a margarita set. It's taken away.
I open a plain envelope (from the company, no less), hoping it's cash or a gift certificate. Inside, there is a folded piece of paper that says:
"This paper entitles the bearer to one free iPod mini from [the Chief Administrative Officer], in any color and with any engraving of your choice."
I do a happy dance. [Literally] I've had two gifts taken away! That means THIS IS MINE!
No it doesn't. What the rule was supposed to mean is that if someone takes something from me, and I take it back, it's mine forever. So my paper got taken away.
I open a Make Your Own Beer set. No one wants it. The iPod certificate is passed around the room, and gets back to someone who had it taken away before. It's theirs forever.
So I walked to the subway and got on the train and in Penn Station someone stepped on my foot and knocked off my shoe and I think he said "I'm very, very sorry" because when I looked at him, I think I looked I was going to cry.
Well at least I'm going home tonight so I can have a gyno appointment in the morning.
I was beginning to accept I'd never get one through freeipods. Every time I thought I finally had my fifth person, they didn't do the ad, or got rejected for the credit card or whatever. Despite the fact that people I referred got their iPods (one person is on his second), and here I am with just four out of five friends. I was at peace.
Tonight, at the second of three parties, we play the "Pick the gift out of the pile" game. You know, where people pick presents and they can either pick a wrapped gift or something someone else already opened. Fun. One of the rules, as the game is explained, is "A gift can only be taken twice." The way they explain it sounds like "If you have two things taken away, you can't have anything else taken away."
I open a cooler/FM radio. It's taken away.
I open a margarita set. It's taken away.
I open a plain envelope (from the company, no less), hoping it's cash or a gift certificate. Inside, there is a folded piece of paper that says:
"This paper entitles the bearer to one free iPod mini from [the Chief Administrative Officer], in any color and with any engraving of your choice."
I do a happy dance. [Literally] I've had two gifts taken away! That means THIS IS MINE!
No it doesn't. What the rule was supposed to mean is that if someone takes something from me, and I take it back, it's mine forever. So my paper got taken away.
I open a Make Your Own Beer set. No one wants it. The iPod certificate is passed around the room, and gets back to someone who had it taken away before. It's theirs forever.
So I walked to the subway and got on the train and in Penn Station someone stepped on my foot and knocked off my shoe and I think he said "I'm very, very sorry" because when I looked at him, I think I looked I was going to cry.
Well at least I'm going home tonight so I can have a gyno appointment in the morning.
