“You Say It’s Your Birthday”
Well, it’s my birthday too…
When I was leaving for Polska the first time, my parents played a little joke on me. I had an old, almost-working laptop that I was planning on taking, and one day, Mom came to me and said she’d bought me a battery for my laptop. “I don’t know if it will work with yours or not, but…”
I looked at it and thought, “Oh dear. Mom’s wasted money. I hope she can take it back.” But I gratefully thanked her and said, “Well, you might be right. I don’t know if it will work with that old lap top.” At which time Dad blindsided me, putting a new laptop on my lap and saying, “It’ll work with this one.”
They did it again.
Piła
This time, with a saw and goggles.
“Dad’s always wanted one of those,” Mom/Nana said.
“I guess he has one now,” I said, “With a place to store it.”
Dziadek was equally impressed, but declared that it was not for a beginner like me. Probably not, but I’ll learn.