Let me start at the beginning. Things had not been going well for me recently. It was nothing serious, it’s just that I had a little tension in my life. I hadn’t been sleeping well. On this night, I couldn’t seem to get to sleep. Everytime I closed my eyes, a hundred things started racing through my head. I finally decided to just get up, move to the den and watch TV for a while. I finally fell asleep on the sofa and must have slept like a baby. When I awakened, it was 7:30–an hour past my wake-up time. I could vaguely hear my clock radio upstairs in my bedroom. I had to get ready for work and get there fast!
I jumped off the couch, took a short shower, threw on the clothing that I had fortunately put out the night before, grabbed what I needed and sprinted out the door. Unfortunately, the night before I had to park my car almost a full block way. I took a quick look at my watch and realized that I was only going to be about thirty minutes late. I had managed to make up for some of my missing time already. I felt a little more relaxed until…I got to my car and realized that my keys were not in my purse. I remembered that those keys were now resting comfortably inside my locked townhouse. My house key was safely on that same keychain! I was not a happy woman.
Coincidentally, my next-door neighbor was just coming home from his night-shift job, parking in an open curb space across the street. As he got out of his car, with a fast-food paper bag containing his breakfast and a cup of coffee in his hand, I all but tackled him as I ran across the street to tell him my problem. I know he felt sorry for me because he immediately helped me into the passenger side of his vehicle, exited his prime parking space and went on to drive me to my office. Not only did he get me to work on time, but he insisted I eat the breakfast sandwich he had purchased, assuring me that he could stop by the drive-thru again for another one on his return back home.
I’m going to nominate him for the “Neighbor of the Year Award.” I wanted to say thank you to him in some other way, while I wait for someone to invent the award. I chose to give him an Italian charm Key Chain as a little thank you token.
Italian Charms are interchangeable links and come in a wide assortment of alternatives: sports team charms, NASCAR charms, and patriotic charms to name a few. These attractive links are stylish for both females AND males. I chose a Italian charm key chain with links representing a couple of his favorite sports teams, because he is a big fan of Boston area teams. He couldn’t have been more pleased with it! Giving my neighbor an Italian charm key chain was a perfect thank-you gift for such a thoughtful man.
Incidentally, my “Knight in Shining Armor” also picked me up at the end of my work day and arranged for a locksmith to meet me at my home upon our arrival. Guess what the first key was that my neighbor placed on his new Italian charm key chain I gave him…..a duplicate key to my front door.
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