June 12, 2007

• Fitzsu Fab

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  Much to the bear’s chagrin, I registered at not three, as we had previously agreed upon, places, but four.  The ‘plus one’ being at Fitzsu Society.  The designerd in me could not resist. 

  “Just a few items that will only increase in value over time!  But they’re classics!” I exclaimed.

  Alas, one key to a successful relationship is compromise.  Because of our laziness, we agreed to leave it but not widely publicize it.  I’d spread it by word-of-mouth to my special fellow designerd friends with deeper pockets (yes, I know that’s an oxymoron). 

  My greedy giftmongering paid off.  Imagine my surprise when about a month ago, I called Boule to track some oh-so-pretty-and-overpriced chocolate I had ordered to be messengered to my bosswoman for her birthday, and they asked me if it was the package being UPS’ed to [insert FIL's address here]. 

  “What??? HOW do you have THAT address?!?!”
  “But it’s to your attention.  That is the only order we have on record under your name.”
  “No way….”

  Managers, yesterday afternoon’s shift cashier, and various other employees were gathered to figure out the confusion.  Before the confusion was cleared, their dutiful messenger arrived [hours late] with bosswoman’s gift.  And yes, it was in my name, spelled correctly in its entirety.  In the meantime, I stewed about who could have stalked and tracked me to an address to which I had never previously associated my name. 

  The bear doesn’t know about chocolates like these.  He’d die if he knew how much some sugar+cacao bean extract+random ingredient inside cost.  He called me to say his mother called saying a package had arrived for “potato and [insert man's name which is not the bear's.]“  It appears they muddled up the couples’ names from their list.

  So the moral of this long story, kids.  If you register at Fitzsu, you may receive a lovely surprise to the address to which you are having your gifts shipped.  Who can resist chocolate and a website whose favicon.ico is an orange circle?  Yes, I am weak.  Very weak.

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