cim's crazy parents take #1,600,042

[cimorene]

someone want to tell me why the package i just opened containing a box of channukah candles and a wrapped channukah present was labelled "food and kitten suppleyes [sic]" on the customs slip?

[pause]

oh god. what if my channukah present really is food and kitten supplies?

Comments

[wild-boys.livejournal.com]

A slip of the hand while filling out the form..?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

well, i know it was filled out by my dad's medical attendant and not by him, so maybe he said "book and channukah supplies" and she just misheard. or um. something.

[wild-boys.livejournal.com]

HEEEEEE. I thought maybe 'kitchen supplies'? Like... peanut M&Ms? And some... um... whisks?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh! that could be.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

A perfect gift: Dried cookies and a cat hair brush ;)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hahahahha. okay, as long as the cookies aren't actually stale that present wouldn't even suck! although it would be odd... even for my parents.

[morningfine]

Ahahaha, well, it wouldn't feel like a package from your parents if there was nothing weird with it, would it?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i'm hoping the weirdness is confined to the customs slip this time.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

In your shoes, I would totally take that as permission to open the present now.

(But I have to explain why. See, my mother has given me many strange gifts over the years, including - and this is by no means the height of her weirdness, either, just a random sampling - a bottle of Chinese chicken salad dressing (I'm a vegetarian) for Easter (she's Jewish, and technically so am I) and a really disturbing Year-End Spectacular themed array of cow-related gifts, including footie pajamas with a FULL UDDER SCULPTED IN SOLID PLASTIC, so that you couldn't sit or lie down comfortably while wearing them, and you had to be careful about how you moved. Also, I was allergic to them. My point is, my mother is famed for her gift-giving weirdness throughout our family (she tries, she really does, and it's just too late to do anything about it now), and if I saw "food and kitten suppleyes" on a customs slip, I would assume there was a decent chance the food would go bad before I opened it if I waited.)

Maybe it's food and kitten slippers. Kitten slippers would be nice. And there are lots of good food things to get. Chocolate, for example.

Or maybe your parents are playing a wacky joke on you and the customs people.

Or maybe the kitten is coming next.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

granted, my parents are pretty weird, but i think i can count on the package not containing anything perishable. at least, i hope it doesn't.

actually, matters are complicated by the fact that my dad's back injury makes him unable to write, so the customs slip was filled out by his medical attendant and not him. the leading theory is that it was supposed to say "kitchen supplies". although maybe there's a kitten book! i guess i wouldn't mind a kitten book...