so this is a funny and long one so pull up a chair and a cup of coffee/tea/glass of wine folks...
so i have a couple of hand lettered envelopes to mail, and i'm out of stamps. i head over to the post office and see the very long line, with only one window open, and i head to the kiosk. super fast and easy. except that the kiosk prints my receipt but does not spit out my stamps. crap! do i try it again, only to have to pay again without getting my postage? or do i stand in the line? grrrr...stand in line it is. i'm like 6 people deep and there are already 3 more customers behind me, so i guess i'm all in...
in front of me is a woman and her mother, holding an wedding invitation suite and a guest list. awww, a bride and her mother. doing the weighing of the envelope ritual. the bride looks vaguely familiar to me but i can't place her. as i'm holding my envelopes i decided to hold them just so, maybe catching their attention, hopefully they will remark about the calligraphy and maybe i can do a pro bono job to get some more practice (ellen i was thinking of you here...!). so yes indeed, the envelopes catch the mother's attention and she remarks about how pretty they are, that they are there to weigh her daughters wedding invitation, and how long this line is...and then i catch a glimpse of the wedding invite...daughters name and groom (not listing their names to protect the innocent lol!)...and then it hits me...OMG the bride is my husbands ex-girlfriend, like THE ex-girlfriend that dumped him, shattered his world, he laid up on a friends couch for a couple of months, went to therapy...THAT ex-girlfriend. and her mother, the woman that told my husband that he would never be good enough for her daughter...she is talking to me about calligraphy...and all i can think is ABORT ABORT ABORT!!! and now ex-girlfriend looks at me...omg does she know who i am??? ABORT ABORT ABORT!!!
and she says to her mother "c'mon we will do this another time i have to get to work..." and the mom looks all surprised and they leave.
OMG i was trying to get my husbands ex-girlfriend to have me hand letter her envelopes OMG!!!!!
and the moral of the story is...ya never know who you will bump into at the post office!
too bad it's way to early for a glass of wine! i would have loved to hear the conversation when they left! "Mom that was Dave's WIFE!!!"...omg!!!
