Thursday #72 – this Thursday was Valentine’s Day and much
like any other Thursday, I woke up, showered and got ready for work all while
Sleeping Beauty DTM slept. Having made
it VERY clear to me that he is not a fan of “Hallmark Holidays” my usually low
expectations were particularly low this Thursday. I managed to sneak a present out of the
bedroom and into the study to leave by his computer, without him so much as
stirring. I knew he wouldn’t have gotten
me anything so didn’t want to wake him and make a big deal of it…figured if he
woke up and found it he might feel bad enough to arrange something during the
day whilst I was at work.
Work wasn’t particularly memorable (well it was memorable
enough that I recounted various stories to DTM that night but not memorable
enough that I can think of what they were 2 days later) and I drove home
expecting very little on my arrival but hoping sincerely that DTM wasn’t expecting
me to cook him dinner. The Vegetarian
assured me via text that she had had a talk to DTM and that he had better be
taking me out to dinner at the very least.
I just hoped he had bought me a card.
When I got home DTM was nowhere to be seen but a collection
of gift bags was laid out on the bed with a couple of ciders and some souvenirs
from DTM’s visit to the dentist earlier that day. I was impressed, yet still expecting to open
the bags and find various crap inside them.
He had bought me a card though so I couldn’t be too disappointed. Not only had he bought me a card, in some
bizarre stance against the fact he believes the whole day was created purely to
benefit card manufacturers, he had bought me a $16 card! As I was reading his uncharacteristically nice
words, a familiar song suddenly started playing as DTM controlled the stereo by
airplay from another room. It was pretty
cute.
I opened all my presents and was shocked to find he had
actually got me nice things. I felt
terrible for doubting him and suddenly went from the generous person who bought
him an unexpected present, to the stingy one who spent nowhere near as much as
he did. Terrible might be an
exaggeration. He informed me we were
heading to Chatswood for dinner, nothing too fancy but somewhere on the bus
line so we could easily get there without me having to drive. Super fancy is not our style anyway.
We headed to The Orchard and got some din dins with a few
bevvies. DTM paid for dinner (the drinks
we did in rounds) for what may have been the first time ever! We finished up our night at The RSL (like the
romantics we are) and got the 10:30 bus home.
After taking The Vegetarian’s advice 18 months ago – to
always expect the worst so that you can only ever be satisfied or pleasantly
surprised – my expectations of DTM this Valentine’s Day could not have been
lower. Needless to say it turned out to
be an awesome Thursday as I was very pleasantly surprised.
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