Comments on: Nothing Says I Love You Like an Allman Brother

By: gwynne

gwynne — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Sounds like a good recovery with the last minute musical event, Ted.

It can’t top my gift — an i.o.u. for a $400 vacuum cleaner which we can’t afford. I think you run out of ideas on year eight. I did get a handmade card and the cats made one too, so that was nice.

Well, you’re off the hook for another 364 days.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I soooo, soooo wanted the Dyson ANIMAL to be my Valentine’s Day gift, but, alas, we already gave that up as a suggestion to my sister. The family is still trolling for suggestions for belated wedding gift.

Wish I’d thought of the Roomba over the weekend. That would have been sa-weet! Much better than the zero-creativity jewelry I picked up at Tiffany. What is it about that place, by the way? No matter what the gift, no matter how random or impractical, those powder blue bags never fail to get women all frothy-mouthed and blubbery. I don’t get it. But then, I won’t question it either. Until I start learning to make homemade cards, the jewelry store will remain my get-out-of-jail-free card.

By: destructo

destructo — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah Freebird! Good call on the last minute concert… music tames the wild beast after all. What’s wrong with the Allman Brothers? I mean, Jessica is the greatest song to speed down the highway to. Oh, and as far as sex-a-ma-phone players, yeah, we’re all smexy.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Ah, Valentine’s Day: for a woman, the worst day of the year to be single; for a guy, by far the best.

But yeah, even the sub-$100 (if I remember correctly) silver bracelets will keep your head above the quicksand, as long as they come in that powder-blue box.

By: gwynne

gwynne — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

can someone get the memo out to my husband — i never got nothin’ in no powder blue box.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In my opinion, Tastykakes should count. The box isn’t exactly powder blue, but sky blue is close enough.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Well, Gwynne, as far as I’m concerned the powder blue box is really to compensate for being distant and emotionally undemonstrative. The equation goes something like this: (Powder blue box) + (showing only vague irritation when your girlfriend cries) = 0. This may not apply to Mr. Gwynne or Mr. Ana, so that may explain the lack of so-colored boxes at gift-giving time.

The sky-blue box probably doesn’t work so well.