Sometimes it amazes me how you can explain something to someone and though you are expecting one outcome, it ends up being completely different than what you thought it would be.

I recently experienced a great example of this when I asked my wife to go buy mens cufflinks for me at a store downtown.  Though I really didn’t buy a lot of cufflinks, the store was having a sale on vintage cufflinks and there were a couple of them that I had my heart set on.

But, during the hours of the sale I had to be at work, so I sent my wife instead.  I gave her explicit instructions of which ones that I was looking for, confirmed that she understood what I had said, and put my faith in her that she would come back home with my cufflinks in hand.

When I got home from work and rushed to open the box the cufflinks that she had bought me, I couldn’t keep the anticipation and excitement inside.  As I opened the box and peered inside it I realized that there is something very wrong.

Inside the box there were photo cufflinks.  What made it even worse was that it just wasn’t any old photo, but I would be wearing pictures of Mr. Bean on each arm.  I stood there in shock and horror looking at what my wife bought me.

I couldn’t help but hear laughter coming from the other side of the room and I realized that my wife had played a big joke on me.  She handed over the cufflinks that I originally wanted and then she wiped away the tears from all the laughing off of her face.

Man, I love my wife.