And Happy Birthday to Me!

[hauntedmyst]

My birthday was this last Monday and after 30 years of marriage my wife is finally coming to the realization that she is terrible at gift giving. She has tons of great qualities (conquered the corporate world and started two successful companies) but gift giving isn't one of them. I don't mean just the odd, one off bad gift, I mean epically bad at gift giving. 34 years of knowing her and 34 years of birthdays and Christmas with score of 0 wins to 34 losses. At one point, I was in discussions with the Bush administration about sending her to Gitmo and having her pick out presents for the detainee's as means of torture. After many long talks, it was determined it would be against the Geneva convention. One year for her 40th birthday, I got her her dream present, a baby grand piano. She got home from work and followed a trail of rose petals leading to it starting at the drive way all the into the living room. For my 40th, she got me some socks and a DVD copy of the movie of Left Behind 2. Yeah, I made that same face you are making right now! That one! It's a mix of shock, confusion and disbelief. Like when someone tells you they just saw Bigfoot flawlessly dancing Swan Lake in Tommy Hilfiger jeans.

Anyways, so this year she finally said "Buy some nice pipes for your birthday!" The words almost didn't register since she hates my pipe smoking. So I did and here they are.

The top one is an Dunhill Amber Flame 6101 and the bottom is a Dunhill Bruyere 6105, both from 1999.



This is Riggs the Wonder dog. His birthday is the day before mine. He got a Muttgeritta.

 

[scloyd]

Nice pipes and dog. Happy Birthday!

 

[wordheavy]

Beautiful gift, Happy Birthday.

 

[gervais]

Beautiful pipes my friend! Happy birthday

 

[BROBS]

Happy b-day dude!! I thought only my wife could be that bad at gift giving. Although my wife is learning. ? yours did too!!!

really beautiful pipes ?

 

[weezell]

And many more!...

 

[bullet08]

Happy B-day!!!

 

[bnichols23]

Happy superannuation, ya bum. Nice score on the smokepoles!

 

[hauntedmyst]

Thank you all!

 

[cshubhra]

Happy ? birthday ?

 

[Misanthrope]

Happy birthday!

 

[augiebd]

Happy Birthday, enjoy those pipes, with or without your socks on!

 

[Sgetz]

Thank you all!

And happy birthday from UK too!

 

[gamzultovah]

Wonderful telling. Happy birthday, my friend.

 

[petes03]

My wife usually makes me pick what I want. Sometimes she surprises me with something I didn’t ask for. Sometimes it’s a win, sometimes it’s not. But it’s the thought that counts.

 

[mikethompson]

You can never go wrong when you pick your own gifts. Congrats!

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Happy late birthday. Your wife did well!

 

[kcghost]

My ex-wife had a similar issue with Xmas presents. She would always get me what I needed rather than what I wanted. I'd tell her "all you have to do is ask me". Finally had to cut her loose after 20 years.

 

[mso489]

She's got it! I think she's got it! Handsome pipes indeed. Happy birthday. You're a romantic married to a pragmatist, and it sounds like it is really working. Opposites sometimes provide perfect complementation.

 

[hauntedmyst]

You're a romantic married to a pragmatist, and it sounds like it is really working. Opposites sometimes provide perfect complementation.

Yeah we do. She’s in charge on the inside stuff, I handle the outside. When we started dating, she had a Mazda 626 she bought used. I was driving it because it was raining and I just had a motorcycle at the time. I looked up in the corner and saw the oil sticker. It said “Next change. 36,000” and I looked at the mileage and it said 64,000! Oh sweet Moses! Her dad never taught her that she needed to change the oil so she never did. As for me, I’d clean the house twice a month and you couldn’t tell I’d done. She manages that. She’s better than I am at finances and I’m better at working things out with our grown kids, so we do complement each other well.