i love dollar stores.

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so, it’s mark and dean’s birthdays this week. i got inspired to figure out something to get them to celebrate the occasions. i mean, how often does a guy turn thirty-three?
i started thinking about what you get a carpenter and cement construction foreman. well, i know dean’s a plain kinda guy with enough money to buy himself anything he really wants. mark is a little poorer, but doesn’t really lack anything either. okay, a card and some lottery tickets. that’s nice and simple and cheap. so i headed out to the mall.
i somehow managed to end up in the dollar store i didn’t know existed, ostensibly to buy a cheap, one-dollar card for each of the boys. that plan went horribly wrong. the first thing i saw was the wall of toys. i was overcome. i spent about forty minutes picking out the perfect dollar store presents for them both. let’s list the contents of each white plastic bag i presented to them:
mark’s bag: glow-in-the-dark stars & planet stickers, a los angeles plastic suction-cup basketball net and half-deflated basketball, a squishy international flag ball (to substitute for the half-deflated basketball), and two bee-bee party favours.
dean’s bag: a yellow emergency poncho, glow-in-the-dark paint pens (sense a theme? i got them because *i* really wanted them), a harmonica, a green yo-yo and two bee-bee party favours.
oh, and i bought a package of sparklers for all of us to enjoy while outside smoking.
as they were opening them, mark said “i think you got the better bag” to dean. then dean went apeshit with his harmonica. i’m glad they liked it. there’s nothing quite like giving someone something you know they honestly enjoy and appreciate.

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12 Thoughts on “i love dollar stores.”

  1. (the shorter)Heather on February 18, 2001 at 20:39 said:

    No dollar store douche??
    BTW – bring back the comment numbers, pleeeeeeease? I skip all the old ones because it’s a pain in the neck to read them all to see if there’s new stuff. :)

  2. heather on February 19, 2001 at 06:25 said:

    there are comment numbers. just hold your mouse over “comments”.

  3. heather on February 19, 2001 at 08:01 said:

    which, i just noticed, doesn’t work in netscape 4.08 so it’s pretty much guaranteed not to work in opera.
    ohwell. too bad. i tried for an hour to get the comment numbers back while preserving the layout, but couldn’t. you’ll just have to click ’em all. =)

  4. heather on February 19, 2001 at 09:12 said:

    or wait for me to add more crap to make you happy. now it should show the number of comments in the status bar at the bottom in both ie and netscape when you hold your mouse over “comments”.
    geez, what i won’t do for the the people i like!

  5. scott on February 19, 2001 at 11:11 said:

    you are so money….

  6. heather on February 19, 2001 at 11:36 said:

    and i don’t even know it.

  7. scott on February 19, 2001 at 13:30 said:

    hello! 500 points to you for getting the swingers quote…

  8. heather on February 19, 2001 at 15:52 said:

    whoo! go me! and i love that movie.

  9. (the shorter)Heather on February 19, 2001 at 19:17 said:

    Well, damn, still doesn’t work in Opera. Figures! :(
    (It probably works in the newer version of Opera which I, of course, uninstalled when I found it had bugs more annoying than this version!)

  10. heather on February 19, 2001 at 19:54 said:

    sorry, i’ve done all i’m going to do. they’re set as alt tags, so it’d work if you turned off images, i imagine.

  11. (the shorter)Heather on February 19, 2001 at 22:16 said:

    Nope – the alt tags aren’t showing up. Don’t usually have a problem w/ them, so… I don’t know. Oh well, I still like my little browser that (usually) could. ;)

  12. scott on February 20, 2001 at 06:40 said:

    mikey, you’re the fun loving party and you’re sweatin’ some lawn jockey?

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