Plaid Shorts

A couple of weeks ago I enjoyed the unique opportunity to come home for lunch with Jenny and Madison. Normally I am stuck at the hospital eating free meals provided by pharmaceutical reps... oh wait, my school banned those meals for fear of any conflict of interest that may arise. For me there is no conflict, I love free food. Anyway, that is all beside the point.

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While we were sitting down eating and visiting Jenny's phone rang and she became quite anxious looking at the caller-id. After a brief hesitation she answered and began speaking nervously to the caller on the other end of the line. I was perplexed, you see, the caller was Lindsay Dockter, one of the other moms from church, I could think of no reason why this would cause any distress.

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Jenny's nervousness as she spoke about "meeting up to choose patterns and sew" clued me in to what was really going on... Jenny was planning a surprise for my upcoming birthday.

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You may not know this but I am a novice Sherlock Holmes, gifted in crime solving and other detective work. Thanks to my gifted mind, it took me all of five seconds to realize what this mysterious phone call was all about. You see, on a recent shopping excursion, Jenny had recommended that I invest in some new plaid shorts, the kind that are oh so popular right now. Being my frugal self, I declined the purchase, but told Jenny that if she used her new found sewing skills to make me some plaid shorts that I would gladly wear them. Now the clincher... Erik Dockter, the husband of Lindsay, with whom Jenny had conversed so nervously wears plaid shorts from time to time. Ah ha! There you have it. Jenny was planning to get together with Lindsay so she could sew me some plaid shorts! So simple, yet beautiful.

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Jenny denied any sort of plan and laughed hysterically when I boastfully presented my conclusions to her. She thought it was cute that I was so confidently wrong.

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It turns out that I was wrong about the shorts, but right about the surprise. On Friday, May 24 Jenny and I headed over to the Dockter's home for a "game night". I thought nothing special was going on as we approached their apartment. There did seem to be some excessively loud talking as we walked to the door... and strangely... all the talking came to a hush when we knocked. But I still didn't think much of it. And then... SURPRISE!!! People were shouting and singing, it took me a few seconds to realize that this "game night" was really a surprise party for me. How would I have ever seen it coming? My real birthday is not until June 16!

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Great times were had by all. Thanks to everyone who came and brought such thoughtful white elephant gifts. Special thanks to Jenny, Madison and friends for putting this all together. The great thing about it is that with my real birthday still a few weeks away, there just might be time for another party!