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THROWING A CURVE BALL
submitted by: James
Holloway
For our
anniversary, I planned a special outing for my wife and me. But I had to
keep my wife off balance until time to leave the house.
So that day at work, I had one of my co-workers call my house and leave
a message on my answering machine saying "Mr. Holloway, your 7:30
dinner reservation has been confirmed and everything will be set up
exactly as you requested." Of course she didn't leave her name or
the name of the "restaurant" she was with.
Later that day I had another co-worker call my house and leave a message
saying "Mr. Holloway, the credit card you used to reserve the
limousine for this evening has been declined, please contact us before
12:00pm to make other arrangements or we will have to cancel your
reservation." Again, I told him not to use his name or indicate
where he was "calling from."
So, when my wife got home after 500pm, she picked up the messages, one
about a dinner reservation, and the other about a limo that had been
cancelled because I obviously hadn't gotten the message in time.
Of course none of that is what I really had planned for the evening. We
had talked for months about going to see our local minor league baseball
team play, but we had never gotten around to it even though the stadium
is just a 1/2 mile from our house. So I decided, no time like the
present. I went by early and bought Prime Box tickets, and arranged for
them to announce "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY" over the speaker system.
(I wanted them to display it on the big light board in center field, but
they said they couldn't do that.)
So my wife was totally off balance until right before we pulled into the
parking lot of the stadium. We had a great time and our team won 3-2.
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