Wednesday, May 24, 2006

coffee no.75

A friend of mine told me a very nice story today. When she was a little girl, her parents gave her an enormous present for her birthday. It was bigger than herself, so my friend was extremely curious what had been hidden inside. Having unwrapped it, she found another box, and inside it there was another, and another. Dozens of increasingly smaller boxes. She was getting more and more nervous, and the whole process became more infuriating than funny. Finally she reached the last, tiny box and it tourned out that there was a golden ring. She was completely dissapointed -- what value could have a golden ring for seven year old girl?
She was expecting something big, extraordinary and fabulous, but she got something ugly, useless and completely stupid instead...