In Reflections: Letting Go He describes how she reacts when he takes up smoking:
My mother, however, looked at the bright side. “Now I’ll know what to put in your Christmas stocking!” She put them in my Easter basket as well, entire cartons.
My father used to buy me cartons (Benson & Hedges), cut off the UPCs, and then at some later time in the year, give me the gift earned by those UPCs. I got a wine and cheese set, and some lovely/futuristic coffee beakers and a French Press. Of course, when we cleaned out the house after his death, we also found that he was keeping the carton boxes from his own brand (rather than just UPCs) for the possibility of offers to come. He was getting rather hoardy after retirement. There were lots of birdless cages not-yet-cleaned-out, too.
When I'm pining, I'll try and remember Tina's words, from the end of Sedaris' essay.
Via Bitch, Ph.D.
2 comments:
You're finished with your smoking? Yes, that's a good way to look at it.
You have other, more important things to tend to now.
I just hope there isn't a similar limit for my reading.
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