Can you guess what I’m holding?
Yep. Those are battery cables. They were a gift from Kevin.
Oh yes. Yes, he did.
I’m smiling and laughing in this picture because I thought it was a joke.
It wasn’t a joke. The man honestly gave me battery cables for Christmas one year (1990?).
I was QUITE pouty. WTH? Who gets battery cables for Christmas?! Who GIVES battery cables at Christmas!?
Never mind that they’ve come in handy NUMEROUS times over the years (yes, I still have them).
But poor guy. He was just trying to be helpful. He worried about me being stranded out somewhere alone sometime and wanted to make sure I was taken care of. (Remember, this was back before cell phones existed. That doesn’t even seem possible, does it).
I give him a hard time about that Christmas, A LOT. And though I was a good sport about the gift and I understood why he gave them to me, let’s just say …
the man has NEVER given me anything like that for Christmas since.
😀
(I just got an idea. We should give Dude battery cables for Christmas this year. He would DIE. HAHA!)
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But it was the most fun.
AND gave me material to hold over you for YEARS! 😀
(by the way, that wasn’t the only gift you received that year)