So ... I went to Wally-world to pick up some stuff -- an oil pan so I can change my oil ... some cereal so I have breakfast in the morning ... some Reece's minis cause I am a Reece's-aholic ... and a watch cause they were on clearance and I need one for work ... you know, the random necessities.
N E Ways, I get all the stuff, pay for it (cause I'm a good boy like that) and get in my car. I haven't had a watch in forever, so I was kinda excited (it doesn't take much) so I took it out of the package, and went to set it -- and the setting knob came out. "Damn ... that sux" I'm thinkin .. but i figure it's a work watch and cheap anyways. I get the time right on the analog part, then set the digital and put it on. Since my oil is really old, I sat to let my car warm up, and randomly decided to check out my watch and what do I see? -- the second hand is not moving. So, I get out and go back into the store laughing cause the guy at the door knew I had JUST walked out not three minutes earlier. I joke with him for a second, then go to Customer Service. They send me to the jewelery department, and the woman behind the counter tells me to go get another watch so I can do an exchange. I walk over, and find out that the watch I had was the nicest one there (if it worked) but I pick out the next best one. I get back to the jewelery counter and have to wait while the woman changes a battery for somebody else, and I look to my right and what do I see? -- Christmas ornaments. Not that I really cared, but I thought they looked familiar, so I look at the manufacturer -- and as it turns out, they were made by Mimi Dienne (I think that's how you spell it -- I couldn't see the inscription too well). Funny thing about this is that a few years ago my dad bought out Mimi Dienne's business and he now makes all her stuff. Even funnier than that, I used to work for my dad, and I actually cast a couple hundred thousand of the pieces I was looking at. I laughed, waited for the lady behind the counter to process the exchange and left ... I just thought it was funny that I might have made the ornament that I had been looking at. Doesn't sound so funny now .. especially with the book I just wrote to explain it. If you have made it this far, I applaud your patience and persistance, and thank you for caring enough to actually read about my life, lol.
Anyways, I gotta unwrap another one of these Reese's minis, cause I can't stop eating them. Have fun, and drop me a line sometime :-)
----Dave (but you should have known that already)
