I arrived at home yesterday to a package on our porch. This is not unusual because my husband love Amazon.com and it is common for us to have at least one package a week if not more. I was texting with him and told him we had a package. He began asking a lot of questions. This is not unusual either. If you know Matt, you know he asks questions all the time even if they are irrelevant. The unusual part was he ask if it was addressed to him. I assumed it was, but thought he might know something i didn't, like he was being sweet and purchased me something :) or that some else had purchased something for us. I went and looked, and it was addressed to me, but not married me, single me. This was very confusing...
I opened up the box to find a wrapped present from Dillards. I knew right away it was wrapped in wedding paper because we had a quite a few gifts given to us for our wedding from Dillards. There was a hand written card attached so I opened it. Edd and Marilyn and Maxine had given us a gift (one that we didn't register for). The card read "Wishing you and yours a very happy marriage." I did not recognize the names and definatley could not place the hand writing. The question is who are Edd, Marilyn and Maxine and why are they sending us a wedding gift a year a and a half later. This would not have been so strange to get the gift because we did end up receiving some gifts about 6 months after we were married because of shipping mix ups, but a year and a half and from people we don't know made me want to solve the mystery.
I called Matt and told him it was a wedding gift and read him the names to see if he could place them. He began asking me if it could be one of my family members. Now, I do have a great Uncle Edd and and great Aunt Marilyn but they are not married to each other and the last names are not even close. Matt kept coming up with crazy scenarios of how they could be trying to trick us or maybe they went behind their spouses backs to get us a gift and other crazy ideas. After a few minutes of this I told him I was going to call my mother and see if she knew who it could be since that was more plausible than anything he was trying to concoct.
There are lots of people that know my parents and these people know about me, and I have no clue who they are! Mama was stumped as well. She thought through all the people we might know with those names, but nothing matched up and the Maxine part was the strangest because she does not know any Maxines, other than Maxine in the cartoon strip, and I only know one, again different last name.
Matt suggested I call his mother. I did and she was stumped as well. She is going to check with her family, but is sure that she would recognize the name if it were family.
The other possibility now had to be that Dillards, or Edd, Marilyn and Maxine, were mixed up and sent the gift to the wrong Tracy. I got on Dillards website to see what I could find. I did several different searches but came up with nothing! So I decided to call the local Dillards, since that is where it was shipped from. I talked to a lady in the gift registry department and after 10 minutes of searching all she could tell me was that there had been at least 4 gifts shipped to us that were not on our registry but could not tell me who purchased them or when they were purchased and did a search on recent gift purchases but nothing matched up. I asked her what we should do. She said we could keep the gift or exchange it for something we did want. Seriously? I'm calling to tell you there is a mix up and this has to be a gift for someone else because there is no way it was meant for us, and all you say is "Keep it or exchange it?" WOW!
Guess I will figure out what to do with this new crock pot! Thanks Edd, Marilyn and Maxine. Sorry who ever it was supposed to go to.
