A Mighty Surprise

Yesterday I got the shock of my life.

I was sitting here surfing the highly pornographic educational internet after my much beloved cable repair man left yesterday afternoon, when the doorbell rang. Fully expecting the cable guy to have returned to take me up on my offer of, “a much more personal thank you for a job well done” I opened the door and was amazed to find that it wasn’t the cable guy at all.

It was my mailman.

He had a small package in his hands and seemed to want to give it to me, but for some reason he didn’t want me to come into contact with him during the handoff. As I reached for the package, he quickly jumped backward and motioned for me to back off. Since I know all too well how close this guy was to ‘going postal’ I complied with his implied threat and backed up as he lowered the package to the floor.

He then barked like a dog three times, licked the doorbell and ran away.

Taking my package upstairs, I couldn’t help but contemplate the fact that neither HoBiscuit nor I had ordered anything to be delivered in the past few weeks. Curious as to the contents of the box, I opened it only to drop my jaw in shock at what was contained within.

It was a gift off of HoBiscuit’s and my wedding registry.

The History of the World – Part I DVD, to be exact. I was dumbfounded. Who would be so gullible stupid nice as to actually purchase us a gift without even knowing who we are? More importantly, how could they be so cheap thoughtful as to buy us something so crappy wonderful? I mean, it may not be The Complete Second Season Boxed Set of Ranma ½, but still, it completely blew us away!

Looking deeper into the box, I saw that there was a note attached from the sender. Reading it aloud to HoBiscuit, she immediately came to the conclusion that these were good people. So, until such a time as we receive another gift, or until I become bored with it, there will be a new link on this page to the winner of The Mighty Geek’s World’s Nicest Person Who Buys Stuff For Other People They Don’t Know Good Award!

And the very first award winner is none other than: Solonor!

Thank you man, you really made our day!