Backfired Birthday

(If you haven't read "Happy Birthday, Jeffrey Jay" yet, do so before reading this). OK, some women do balloon bouquets. Others do singing telegrams. Quite often a wife might revert back to her younger years and do a candy bar poster complete with cute tributes to her "Big Hunk" or "SweetHart" (the T in tart being covered up with a paper H to make sense because who wants to be married to a Tart?) I chose to do a cute handled box of delicious, homemade chocolate chip cookies with a cute ribbon (mind you it was a blue ribbon) and a cute little Happy Birthday sign tied to it. Well, the ribbon and sign were off in the car before he even got to work. Jeff said it would make him feel "light in the loafers" if he went skipping into work with it that way. Fine. So here's my question. If he had taken the "cutesified" box into work and told everyone that his loving wife had sent it with him and had some cookies to share, wouldn't that have made sense to everyone? Wouldn't they have sighed, said "Happy Birthday, Jeff" had a cookie and gone about their business? It wouldn't have been too painful for Jeff, right? But, instead, he removed the questionable, dangerous ribbon and sign and walked (very masculinely) into work and, still with his cute handled box, started passing out cookies at his staff meeting. Am I missing something here? HE DIDN'T TELL ANYONE IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY! I guess it's normal for men to bring boxes of cookies into work and pass them around? It wasn't until people made comments about the cool/cute box and started to enjoy their yummy cookies that they asked what the special occasion was. He finally fessed up that it was his b-day. I'll tell ya...

He was quickly forgiven though and we had an enjoyable evening. I made Indian food (as a good friend says, "the dot not the feather") and African Cream Pie (also known as "Better than %$#" dessert...this blog is PG rated) and we had our own fireworks display. When your birthday is right before Pioneer Day, you get to have things like Mach III Firestorm fountains ignited in your honor!