Gentle Reader,
the following is an email that we received a while ago. We enjoyed
it so-o-o-o much that we decided to give our friend Kind Kevin
a Marvelous Mouse Pad for his effervescent efforts in telling
his tale:
Dear Tara, Star
and Patty,
This is the story of how two happy hippies miscommunicated, and
how at least one of them then became sad :-(
The ending to this story has not yet been written, however, and
you have the opportunity to make both hippies happy again. :-)....
TWO HAPPY HIPPIES MISCOMMUNICATE
by Kevin Strauss
THE SAGA BEGINS
Once upon a time, a happy poser-hippy named Kevin ordered the
Weekly Special Offer, which included *both* the joyous Happy
Hippy Icons collection AND the Rainbow Spiral Tie Dyed Mouse
Pad for a very happy price of (approx.?) $20. "A perfect
gift for Father's Day," the Happy Hippy Website Ad exclaimed!
Well, Kevin was happy about that offer, and he was also very
happy to discover that Happy Hippy Momma Tara lived not far from
his own community of Greenbrae.
Kevin phoned Momma Tara (almost a local call!) and ordered that
wonderful weekly special. He was so happy that he could hardly
contain himself as he thought of all those colorful icons brightening
his desktop and of that colorful mousepad brightening his other
desktop. He would sometimes burst out in giggles, with a silly
grin on his face :-))) Kevin's friends wondered if he'd been
smoking something "extra", but he assured them he was
just a happy hippy high on life.
THE PLOT THICKENS
The package arrived just a few days later. Kevin looked at it
with excitement, ready to rip it open! His face beamed! It suddenly
dawned on Kevin, however, that the package was much too small
to hold a mouse pad, unless the mouse pad was sized for mice
that wear grey fur and live in the fields. A chill wind blew.
The sky darkened, and Kevin noticed a vulture watching him from
a nearby tree. A shiver ran down his spine, and goosebumps popped
up on his arms. This is not how a happy hippy is supposed to
feel, he thought to himself. Kevin took a big breath, gulped,
and carefully opened the little package.
Kevin's worst fears were confirmed. No mouse pad. He looked at
the invoice and realized what had happened. The two happy hippies
had miscommunicated. He had been charged appropriately for the
Happy Hippy Icons disk ($14.87 when ordered by itself) which
had come in the teeny tiny package, but not for the entire special
offer that he had thought he was buying (which inluded the mouse
pad and a very happy discount).
When Kevin understood that this was a case of simple miscommunication,
the tears left his eyes. Kevin was no longer sad. He was...hopeful!
"I'll just write to Momma Tara, and she'll make everything
okay again," Kevin mused. "She was an awfully nice
and friendly happy hippy, after all. And we're neighbors, too!
Momma Tara even wrote a nice handwritten note on the invoice,
signed with a peace symbol by her name. She will make everything
better again!"
It was with a sense of hope, nay...joy, that Kevin wrote to Momma
Tara to explain the situation. He liked Momma Tara. How could
he not? She had already brightened his home so much with her
wonderful, colorful icons. He gazed admiringly at the happy hippy
icons adorning the desktop of his Macintosh, named Magellan by
the way, and imagined the bright colors of his soon to be purchased
(at the happy discount!) tie dye mouse pad glowing from the desktop
of his desktop. ;-)
A HAPPY HIPPY RESOLUTION, OR A TERRIBLY SAD ENDING TO THIS SPELLBINDING
TALE?
You, the gentle reader, get to choose the story's ending! That's
right! Hopeful Kevin will telephone our Momma Tara at a later,
happier, more respectable California hippie time than the present
(6:30 a.m.) time. You may cast your vote when he calls. Kevin
will be dreaming of happy, multi-colored swirls and splashes
until then, for he's been awake all night long, causing a wacky
imagination to spring from his tired, tired mind.
Have a happy hippy day.
Kevin Strauss
NEEDLESS
TO SAY MOMMA TARA WAS HAPPY TO GIVE KIND KEVIN HIS MOUSE PAD,
AT NO EXTRA CHARGE IN FACT, BECAUSE SHE GOT SUCH A KICK OUT OF
HIS CLEVER LITTLE LETTER, THAT SHE THOUGHT HE HAD ALREADY EARNED
HIS MOUSE PAD, JUST BY MAKING THREE HAPPY HIPPIES (Tara and her
two daughters, Star and Patty) SO VERY, VERY HAPPY!
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