Everything Should Come With A Box

Don't you agree?? How much easier our lives would be if the world accepted this simple concept and accepted my humble wisdom.

Let's see. Hmmmm. You would not have to traipse to some hidden gift wrap counter in the farthest corner on the lowest level of a department store to obtain said container when your arms are juggling sacks and receipts and a purse while you are bundled up in some plump winter attire feeling like a beach ball all on your own....perspiring I might add. (Gosh -- can you tell the author, who prefers to wrap packages as opposed to using gift bags, is composing this lovely run-on sentence at Christmas time having recently experienced the role of frustrated shopper herself??)

Then there is the time the harried gift wrappers can't give you a box because they haven't received the latest shipment they were expecting that was due yesterday? And all they can offer are the two extremes -"Would you like a coat or a tie box, Ma'am??" Ahhhhh!!! So what are you supposed to do? Hope that you haven't thrown away that last shoebox your child's Adidas came in or the shirt box you had used previously for the three birthdays and Father's Day you already celebrated during the year??

Yep, that famous quotation floats into the consciousness of the now -- "My Kingdom for a horse". Guess those feelings of angst are generations old. I understand that some are much more important than others with farther reaching serious consequences. But, heck, all I wanted was a box.