42. For All The Mining You Do
I was spending Christmas with my wife’s family for the first time and wife’s uncle/aunt/cousin’s gift for me was a baseball cap for use in the mining industry. It had a built-in plastic shell in the cloth lining which made it really uncomfortable and non-adjustable. It was also about four or five years old and very clearly used. The edges were fraying, and the plastic was cracked in one spot.
Same family got my wife a marble clock that weighed a ton and didn’t work. We were flying back the next day with carry-on only luggage.
