QotD: My Best Gift
What is the best present you have ever given?
Submitted by quornflour.
For my fantastic grandmother's 92 birthday last year, I wrote to the Detroit Tigers and asked if I could send them a card for a few of her favorite players to sign. After all, she and my grandfather were lifelong fans and even moved to Lakeland, Florida, upon retirement because that's where the Tigers had Spring Training.
Instead, they sent her a certificate on behalf of the Tigers organization commemerating her birthday and thanking her for her dedication and loyalty to the team.
I didn't tell her what was going on - the Tigers were in the middle of the World Series run and were a bit busy at the time of her birthday. She got it a few weeks after the fact and was so excited, she showed it to everyone at 'The Home' (that's what she calls her apartment place, not me. Ha, funny Grandma!).
The first runner-up best gift evar were socks for my dad. He's always complaining about having cold feet when he's out doing farm stuff in the winter. Well, if you are wearing rubber boots and not proper winter boots, what do you expect? You expect to complain a lot.
Anyhoo, I bought him some high-tech socks last year and he thought those were the greatest things created in the history of mankind.
So this year he's getting two pair.
Comments
Awww that is so cool about your grandmother! and LOL @ The Home, hehe.
and SmartWool socks are teh awesome. you tell your dad I wore them above the Arctic Circle. Of course, I also wore winter boots.... :)