The Father’s Day Gift That Never Was
This year we were able to visit our daughter’s family in Connecticut after an almost two year absence because of COVID.
We chose the end of May to Mid June as our visit.
While there, our daughter and her family presented me with a Father’s day gift. It was a gift card to Bed Bath and Beyond.
I thought it an odd choice over Dick’s, Macy’s or some other store more suited to men.
However, I was really grateful and expressed my thanks and appreciation for their gift. I reasoned they must have thought I would buy some cooking appliance or tool with the gift card.
Once we returned home, Barbara immediately insisted we should go get a new comforter for our bed. I readily agreed since we had discussed getting a comforter prior to our visit to our daughter.
We decided on first going to Bed Bath and Beyond since we had good luck finding comforters there in the past.
Fortunately we found a comforter that suited our needs.
At the cash register, Barbara offered my gift certificate to the cashier as payment (plus her usual 20% off coupon). She reasoned this would be a painless way of paying for the comforter. It made sense to me and I concurred.
The next day our daughter called and Barbara told her how we bought a comforter. My daughter asked to speak with me and when I took the phone she was laughing.
“What’s so funny,” I said ?
After catching her breath, she proceeded to tell me the choice of the store for the Gift Card was steered by Barbara towards Bed Bath and Beyond.
She started to giggle and then laugh again.
The light bulb went off. The choice of Bed Bath and Beyond was a calculated ploy by “you know who” to buy a comforter without any economic objection by me.
When I mentioned this to my daughter, she laughed harder.
After I got off the phone I asked Barbara if she had planned my “Father’s Day Gift” so she could pay for the comforter. She vehemently denied she had planned it that way. She claimed she knew I would consider an Air Fryer (something we had both rejected recently), and it was just a “happy coincidence” that the gift certificate was available to be used for the comforter.
I have my doubts about her explanation, but I do l like the comforter.
