buckshot
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Not really sure if I'm asking for advice here or looking to hear anyone else's experience in similar situations, but here it is.
I just recently found out by complete accident what my girlfriend had planned for me to do to celebrate my 25th birthday this fall. Probably a key mistake on her part, but about a week after I bought my S she told me she bought my birthday present and obviously wasn't tellin. All she said was that I had to book it off work, it's a Friday this year so nbd. It's also in October, quite a ways off yet. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I'm told something like this my mind eats away at every possibility until I find out what it is. So the gears started to grind.
A few weeks later I'm at her place for the weekend, and I ask if I can use her computer to look up directions to a KTM dealer to get parts for my Dad. Sure, no problem. I re-open chrome and she's got a few tabs open, but I head for google maps. While it's thinking about where I'm trying to go I can't help but read the little blips on her open tabs. Most of it fairly usual stuff for her. Netflix, hotmail, facebook, school stuff.............then I see the words Ferrari & Lambourghini. I then DO NOT open that tab, everyone's got their privacy and I respect that, but it gets me thinking about why she'd possibly be looking at anything to do with either of those two. In our time together she's always gotten more excited about 5th gen Camaros and Lotus Evoras before even thinking about Ferraris and Lambos, so again, the gears grind. What has been seen cannot be un-seen, and as hard as I try I can't not think about it.
So I arrived at the conclusion that she's bought me some lap time in my choice of either red or yellow super-car. Maybe more flavours are available, I don't know yet. But it's been confirmed that this is the case, and frankly neither one of us are too jazzed about it being out in the open. She's upset that it's my 25th and this was suppose to be a big, blow-my-mind surprise and now it's not so much of a surprise, and I'm feelin' down about it because I found out and I was looking forward to finding out the day of.
So I guess I'm asking if anyone else has ever stumbled across a surprise laid out for them and had similar end results?
As far as I know we're still going to wherever we're going for me to drive whatever I'll be driving, but as more details surface I might try to get her behind a wheel that day. Her birthday is only a couple weeks away on the 31st. It's kind of fitting really, mine has always been over-shadowed by Canadian thanksgiving, and hers by Halloween.
I just recently found out by complete accident what my girlfriend had planned for me to do to celebrate my 25th birthday this fall. Probably a key mistake on her part, but about a week after I bought my S she told me she bought my birthday present and obviously wasn't tellin. All she said was that I had to book it off work, it's a Friday this year so nbd. It's also in October, quite a ways off yet. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I'm told something like this my mind eats away at every possibility until I find out what it is. So the gears started to grind.
A few weeks later I'm at her place for the weekend, and I ask if I can use her computer to look up directions to a KTM dealer to get parts for my Dad. Sure, no problem. I re-open chrome and she's got a few tabs open, but I head for google maps. While it's thinking about where I'm trying to go I can't help but read the little blips on her open tabs. Most of it fairly usual stuff for her. Netflix, hotmail, facebook, school stuff.............then I see the words Ferrari & Lambourghini. I then DO NOT open that tab, everyone's got their privacy and I respect that, but it gets me thinking about why she'd possibly be looking at anything to do with either of those two. In our time together she's always gotten more excited about 5th gen Camaros and Lotus Evoras before even thinking about Ferraris and Lambos, so again, the gears grind. What has been seen cannot be un-seen, and as hard as I try I can't not think about it.
So I arrived at the conclusion that she's bought me some lap time in my choice of either red or yellow super-car. Maybe more flavours are available, I don't know yet. But it's been confirmed that this is the case, and frankly neither one of us are too jazzed about it being out in the open. She's upset that it's my 25th and this was suppose to be a big, blow-my-mind surprise and now it's not so much of a surprise, and I'm feelin' down about it because I found out and I was looking forward to finding out the day of.
So I guess I'm asking if anyone else has ever stumbled across a surprise laid out for them and had similar end results?
As far as I know we're still going to wherever we're going for me to drive whatever I'll be driving, but as more details surface I might try to get her behind a wheel that day. Her birthday is only a couple weeks away on the 31st. It's kind of fitting really, mine has always been over-shadowed by Canadian thanksgiving, and hers by Halloween.
