Gift: The "Coupon" Book
Price: Priceless
Inspired by Shannon's comment last year, we highlight this amazing idea. The gift is a "coupon book" specifically made for your friend or family member. It is "redeemable" when they visit you or on their own. This is how she describes it:
"Along with things like dinner at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant and hunting for the sausage most resembling a traditional Lithuanian *skilanti* at Brighton Beach, we'll include non-gift gifts like a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, an afternoon working a jigsaw puzzle, and an evening of telling family stories."
This reminds me of a Friends episode where Joey was trying to think of a good present for his girlfriend, and someone said, "Well, it needs to be something better than just a coupon for some Joey Love," and his crestfallen face proved that his mind had been read, because he had been known to give that gift before.
See? The word geek existed before and is not exclusive to its relationship to people who deal with computers!
Heads-up: this evening, I'll be posting a web version of our 2004 coupon book for those who are interested. URL to follow.
Actually, Ozzie's the ultimate geek: according to the Mirriam-Webster (and of course the fine novel Geek Love), a geek is "a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake."
Click my name and then 'coupons' for, you know, coupons. A lot of them are specific to my family but hopefully they'll inspire.