"Oh, crap! I wrapped the wrong thing!"

**Land** · 06-20-2010, 19:22

My brother and I decided to go in together and buy our dad an Eno Doublenest and slap straps for Father's Day. Pop really liked the idea of a hammock after I showed him one of my HH Expeditions awhile back, so bro and I decided that this would be a good gift for him to take on his camping trips with our mother in their truck and travel trailer.

My sweet wife volunteered to wrap the gift for us, so we were all set.

This morning, as we were getting ready to head out to meet the family for lunch, I reminded my dear wife about her offer to wrap. She promptly and sweetly got right to it, and had it done in short order.

A little while later, I heard her say, "Oh, crap! I wrapped the wrong thing!"

This was after she noticed the Eno and straps still in the bag from the store on a table in the kitchen.

So what had she wrapped, I inquired.

"Those two black things that were on the dining-room table," she said.

The "black things" were actually dark gray-green silnylon bags -- containing my brand new Warbonnet Blackbird and the doors for my SuperFly!!!!

I sure was glad that she realized that she had wrapped the wrong stuff before we gave it to my dad.

Chris

**G.L.P.** · 06-20-2010, 19:34

if that was my wife.....she would be sleeping in the woodshed

**gargoyle** · 06-20-2010, 20:38

whew! that was close.

**Muskrat** · 06-20-2010, 20:54

boy, I'd like to hear the conversation with dad as you try to hand over the ENO and get back the WBBB . . .

Lesson learned . . . just buy WBBBs for everyone !

**Cranky Bear** · 06-20-2010, 20:55

That was a close one, at least for you! Your Dad would have been one "HAPPY" man if he would have gotten that present, and there would have been no explaining that one!!!!

**Bubba** · 06-20-2010, 22:14

Close call. Good thing it was caught in time or you'd have had use the Force and pull a Jedi mind trick...This isn't the hammock you want...You want the ENO...You don't want the Warbonnet..