Yesterday’s blog got me thinking about other gifts Eric gave us when we were living in Philadelphia. He always was original.
Eric had several jobs during our time in Philly. One of them was for a dot com in Austin that failed. He left this job for a consulting job in London and had to get rid of most of his possessions. He sold his car and sent us his vacuum cleaner. I guess his was nicer than ours….although not for long. We used it (silly us, wanting to actually use the vacuum cleaner) and it didn’t seem to work very well. It also made horrible noises and may have actually started smoking. It was then that we found out that instead of using it for its intended purpose, Eric used his vacuum cleaner as a place to store spare change. There was an enormous baggie of coins in the place where the dirt was supposed to go. We should have known.
As a housewarming gift Eric gave us a window. One might think (and hope) that our house already came with these and you would be correct. This window, however, was special. It was old and the paint was crusting off of the frame. There should have been 12 small panes of glass, but the middle two were missing. The others were filled with blue, red and yellow colored glass and one of those was cracked. As odd as this sounds, it was actually a pretty cool gift. In Philadelphia we mounted it on the wall around our thermostat which fit perfectly in the empty space. In Oklahoma City we had it hanging in one of the front windows where the colored glass could catch the light. I’m still looking for the perfect place for it in our Charlotte house, I’ll find one sooner or later. For now it’s leaning against the wall in our bedroom where I can see it everyday and think of him.
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