MFEO

I remember in Sleepless in Seattle when young friend Jessica, who knew how to book flights on her parents’ credit cards when only travel agents knew how to do that, spoke mainly in initials. Her parents didn’t have a clue but that didn’t stop Tom Hanks.

My husband and I first met a couple of weeks after 9/11 when the world was reeling and everyone had a story to tell. He’d been laid off (dot-bombed) and moved away for a few weeks only to get a new job in town. I found him a townhome about 1,000 feet from my condo and he had no furniture and absolutely nothing in the kitchen.

One day I walked 1/2 mile to the mall where there was a grocery store, a Trader Joe’s and a Pier One and I saw picardie glasses on sale. I picked one up and it was suitable for him, heavy and nearly indestructable. So I bought it, Eighteen glasses in three sizes for about $18. I started home and dang those glasses were heavy. I stopped every few hundred feet to rest, then decided I would leave them on his protected front porch and hoof it the rest of the way home without them.

Arriving home I got my messages and he’d called saying he was home sick and needed to take medicine and didn’t have a glass to drink from. “Look out on your front porch.” Voila! MFEO. Somehow I knew just what he needed and it was sitting right there for him to use. Perfect, made for each other. We married a year later.

Now, we’re moving again. I came across the box and even the inserts to put between glasses. Only about eight of the originals remain after all these years but it was fun remembering those early days together. Of course as a cook I had more than enough kitchen equipment for both places, and moved most of it over to his place because I had to cook there. I had a cat back then and he was so allergic he couldn’t even step inside my front door! Now I just have to wash the dog every two weeks to keep down the dander. No more cats, sadly.

Whatever happened, we rolled with the punches and came out of it better than when we started. Let’s hope this move works for us as well, because moving is a real pain! Take care, and remember to VOTE! Dee