I had a long talk with a good friend recently. It was long overdue. We talked about everything from finances to grandkids.
She told me that she had recently been to a baby shower and won a door prize. It was beautifully wrapped, and she was delighted at her good fortune. When she was given the prize, she was told to " wait and open it when you get home." So naturally she opened it while at the shower in front of everyone and was quite embarrassed. Inside the box were assorted "sex toys, lotions, thunder beads, and a video that had a photo on it that made her blush."
Of course, there is no way to open such a package without generating lots of attention from those sitting around you. What do you do when you are too embarrassed to even acknowledge that this box of "X-rated goodies" is now officially yours? She toyed with the idea of just leaving it under her chair but then decided it would be just her luck that the person who found it would remember it belonged to her and announce to the entire group that she had forgotten her "sex toys".
My friend repeatedly told me that "she is not a prude" but she was very offended and did not know how to respond without embarrassing herself or the host. Her husband told her to just throw it away. She would have but it occurred to her that maybe the trash man would see it and start looking at her funny.
"I didn't want anyone to know that it came from my house", she told me quite seriously, " so I took the whole thing into the backyard and burned it."
Daisy Dilemma: How would you have handled this situation?
Looking back in retrospect: I have been to many bridal showers and have discovered that you can easily give the gift to the person being honored..
