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February 1, 2005
Surprise Party Planners
We really surprised Betsy on Saturday at her birthday party! It was awesome. Sandra and Peter and Duncan were here from the East coast and everything. Right before this picture was taken Woody had told Betsy that Porter had built a fort behind the closed pocket doors. When he flung them open it was a room full of about 40 people who all yelled: "SURPRISE!!" or maybe they said "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!" I don't remember -- I was walking in with Betsy, so I didn't say anything.
Anyway, it was the greatest. I've wanted to have a surprise party for a long time -- for myself, I mean. But, like so many things in life, it doesn't seem to be happening spontaneously, which makes me think I've got to make it happen.
Wouldn't it be great if you could hire someone to throw a surprise party for you? Your own Surprise Party Planner?
You'd give them your address book and a bunch of money and say: surprise me sometime in the next 6 months (or whatever time period made sense). They'd work closely with all your friends, get a cake, some balloons, maybe a monkey or two. And then! When you least expected it: Whammo!!! SURPRISE!!!
Now, some people might say, that this misses the whole point of a surprise party as a more-or-less spontaneous show of affection by all your friends. To that I say: pshaw. The whole point of our economy is that you can buy anything, even surprises. And pretty much anything is better, in my opinion, when it's a surprise.
Posted by mary at February 1, 2005 2:20 PM
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Now combine this idea with the Suicide Blondie thing and you'll naturally love this idea: The Life Insurance Hit Man
Do you have a lot of life insurance? Do your beneficiaries really need the money? Too stupid to kill yourself in a way that won't obviously look like suicide? Then the Life Insurance Hit Man has your number. You'd call the Hit Man and tell him to "off" you sometime in the future (he asks, "When?" You say, "Surprise me!!! Just make it quick.") We can flesh out this idea later, when I'm killing time at the end of the day here at work.
Posted by: Teem at March 14, 2005 5:00 PM
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