jaysonsmom
Ideal_Rock
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This was for my ex-husband's 40th birthday. He was just "in love" with this stupid (and stupidly expensive) toilet bowl brush in it's own shiny silver container from Restoration Hardware (don't ask...) but wouldn't buy it because of the $$$. (Believe me, we had plenty, but it was the principle of the thing for him). Every time we went to RH he'd veer over to the bathroom section and fondle the damn thing.
Bill was also a serious foodie. We had a restaurant here in Chicago called Charlie Trotter's. It was $500/head even back then, and more if you wanted wine with dinner. (And trust me, we DID want wine with dinner!)
A friend of ours got engaged and I told Bill the engagement party was at Trotter's. They were chi chi people so this was totally plausible. He was super excited because he'd been dying to go there. I also told him I got the happy couple a vase off of their registry. (He doesn't know a thing about registries or when you have one--or when you don't.) That night we went to Trotter's... and were seated at a table for two for his birthday dinner. He was completely floored. He was also totally surprised when he opened the "vase" LOL.
My parents live in Taiwan, and last year I happened to have a business trip to Southeast Asia around my mom’s 70th birthday, so I planned a surprise 3 day layover in Taiwan and conspired with my cousin to plan a family get together which was actually my mom’s surprise birthday lunch. When I showed up at their apartment building, their security guard called my parents and told them a young lady was here to see my dad....she was so MAD ! She kept asking who the young lady was.....and then the security guard told me mom: She says she is your husband’s daughter.... my mom almost lost it, thought my dad had an illegitimate daughter with someone in Taiwan! When I was finally let upstairs by the security guard, and mom opened the door to their apartment, the surprise and RELIEF was priceless!