Flowery Language
Task 41, October 25 to November 1
“Gifts are like hooks”. Martial
There is someone in your world that deserves to be reminded that they are special. You know it--I know it. And I'm not talking about your wife or husband, or your girlfriend or boyfriend, or your best friend, or your mistress/lover, or your children–for the purpose of this task, they don't count (and, note to my wife, our chocolate lab, Truman, doesn’t either).
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It's got to be someone else, i.e. the millennial in the next cubicle who puckers her nose whenever I unwrap a tuna fish and mayo/dijon sandwich yet covered an assignment for me when I showed up to work with a hangover so severe that I spent the morning googling “brain aneurysm”; or the crossing guard at the school who stands at the corner in rain, snow, or blistering heat to make sure that kids don't get plowed over by a cement truck; or the electrician who waived his $75 service fee although he drove 15 miles out to my house after I called him in a panic to fix a dead electrical outlet under my desk…that wasn’t working because I had accidentally turned off the wall switch that controlled it; or the guy I met on a bachelor party weekend–he was the cousin of the soon-to-be-groom that I had never met before–who loaned me $200 in cash to show to my wife when she inevitably confronted me with the “how much did you lose THIS TIME” question (which, by the way, is always the first thing she asks, even before the “how did you get that bloodstain on your shirt” question…).
Anyhow, you know someone like that and they need to be acknowledged.
TASK
When you've figured out who this person is, you send them a gift. Anonymously. That means you never, ever, ever admit to it. I suggest flowers or an Etsy gift card for a woman and a Swiss Army knife for a man.