To exchange or not to exchange . . . .
I'm not a big returner of stuff. Basically, if I buy something, I buy it. I cut the tags off immediately and, if it turns out that I don't use it, I let it hang around for a while, as a reminder of my mistake, and then give it away.
And, until I got married, I felt the same way about gifts. If someone gave me something, I kept it -- whether a gift receipt was attached or not.
Then we receieved some truly awful wedding presents.
And it was just too tempting.
Now, I feel like I've crossed some sort of divide. Like I'm becoming a return-er.
And I now find myself contemplating the exchange (even, possibly, the return) of a Christmas gift from my husband.
He gave me wonderful, cool and thoughtful presents, as he generally does. I love the New Yorker cartoon book and the almanac to answer my obscure questions when he's not around to be my primary source of trivial knowledge and the Office Space DVD (my favorite movie ever, except for The Graduate) and the cool gadget that lets me listen to my iPod on the car stereo and the several other inside-joke gifts that make me laugh and, at the same time, feel like an increasingly smug married.
But the black leather briefcase . . . .
I'm just not sure.
It's beautiful and sophisticated-looking.
But I'm just not really a briefcase kind of gal. Or I don't think I am, anyway.
So should I try to exchange it for something a little more funky? Or should I become the briefcase-carrying grown-up that I probably really should be at this point in my life?
He swears he won't be offended if I exchange it.
But I haven't brought up the possibility of returning it and buying something completely different at the Coach outlet.
Comments
Umm, yeah... I'm going to have to ask you to come in on Sunday, too. Yeah... we've lost some people this week, and we sort of have to play catchup. That would be grreeeeaaattt. Thank you, Peter....
Posted by: Mike | December 28, 2005 11:22 AM
Yes return the bag if you must but not the Office Space movie (now that would be unacceptable : )
PICKETT replies:
I do, in fact, have my priorities in order. At least in this case. So I've already re-watched Office Space twice.
But I did return the bag. And got one at the Coach outlet in Michigan City last week. He didn't seem to mind at all. In fact, he's now claiming to have picked out the new bag himself.
Posted by: candy | January 3, 2006 02:06 PM