Many years ago when Ammon’s Dad worked for a wood mill in Eugene, he thought it would be funny to dress up like Cupid and take all the guys who work at the mill cookies on Valentines day. So he threw on his “diaper-like” covering and sporting his bow and arrow, he walked into the mill and personally delivered the homemade cookies to all the guys working that day. Of course, as you can imagine, this event went down in history!
Years later, after I had married into the family, my mom found out about this story and thought it was quite hysterical. Spontaneously one year, she decided that “Cupid” needed a Valentine. She found funny frame that was a rubber, Gumby-like cupid character…it had a special place in the head to put a picture of a face. She found a picture of Larry, stuck his likeness inside this cupid frame and sent it in the mail…with a superman sticker on the envelope in the place where the return address should be. Thinking he would guess it was her (since our parents know each other well)…she thought it would be funny not to sign her name.
To make a hysterically funny story a lot shorter…each year “Cupid” would receive his special and unique Valentine in the mail with the same Superman sticker placed in the corner of the envelope. The valentine was different each year…but all related to the story of “Cupid.”
After 10 years of carrying on this Valentine tradition, my mom revealed to my father-in-law it had been her all this time sending these cards and cupid pictures over the years. Some years she would send Cupid his Valentine from Texas, other times Kings City, but mostly from Albany. Through a few mishaps my father-in-law was completely sure that the culprit for these yearly Valentines were from Ralph and Ramona (close family friends). As time went on…they just assumed it was them each year.
Look at the pictures below…do you see the confusion on Larry and Peggy’s faces as my mom reads a poem she has written to reveal herself? This was priceless!!! They were shocked and really until half way through the poem they did not even understand what was going on.
The perfect end to a fabulously rich practical joke! The Valentine sender is revealed!
The picture at the top is of the bag that my mom made holding her final Valentine gift for Larry…a small cupid bell…he can hang on his Christmas tree each year to remember the decade of Valentines!
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