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‘Tis the season. Christmas Crackers and Asprey is both English.
Ho, ho, ho.

From: Santa’s illiterate elf (good-natured but bad with verb tenses)@asprey.com
Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:32 PM
Subject: FW: Holiday/Christmas crackers
Dear All,

SM

photo: Asprey

Uh, ooops.

I guess that Asprey and Christmas crackers isn’t holiday traditions after all.

On the second day of Christmas my vendor sent to me: ‘one recalled email’ and a ‘first that they wish I didn’t see…….’

The Twelve Days of Asprey.

From: Santa’s illiterate elf (good-natured but bad with verb tenses)@asprey.com
Date: Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Subject: Recall: Holiday/Christmas crackers

SM would like to recall the message, “Holiday/Christmas crackers”.

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Well, for your next soiree at (fill in the blank)_______ State Park, Reserved Table #53 (rain or shine/B.Y.O.B)
Celebrate in style.

Barneys presents: delft china for the Tagger in your life.

Wow. Familiar artisan work for those informal Gang meetings. Because being tough with a rap sheet at 16 doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy dining on fine china.
Bring it down.

The dinner plates feature a police car, the salad dishes a board truck, and the cups–a hot dog/pretzel cart. The delft blue border, naturally, features graffiti.
Who could ask for more, except perhaps an early parole.

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Ebay and I are ostensibly having our tin/aluminum anniversary this year—Ten Years of Bliss together…er…..

Okay, well, I guess I’ll confide that I was surprised to receive a handwritten card, dual pen set and ‘moleskine‘ (as if) styled notebook—presumably within which to jot my future auction action plans.

It took me about a week to open the card. It was handwritten (Kudos for that one guys–I guess since Meg has moved to greener pastures the gang is brainstorming)–one can only imagine the hours of fun someone is having as they scribe this stuff out.

However, it was a nice gesture and totally unexpected.

I mean, Frankly, some marriages celebrate the passage with less fanfare (I’ll spare you personal examples).

Of course, eBay and I aren’t as intimate as we once were years ago (wild late nights of listing/bidding)—I think of it as sorta: amicable cohabitation. It’s changed, I’ve changed. I am involved with some other auction sites (I have a thing with Yahoo.japan–I refer to this as my ‘Asian’ fetish).

Anyway, eBay has more sellers and buyers than in 1999. I know I’m rationalizing. I guess I thought I was more special as a seller, but we’ve both changed over time. I’m trying to be mature about the changes in our relationship. Maybe I need to use the little composition book to journal my personal thoughts about this stuff so I can come to terms with it…….(they sent me TWO pens—maybe I do have ‘issues’…..)

I think we’ll probably still be together in 2019. Wonder what they’ll send me then? Probably NOT new China. Alas.

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