Posted on 01/02/2018 11:15:44 AM PST by nickcarraway
During the holiday season, it has become a tradition for most people to open their presents under the tree on Christmas morning. But one man in Eton, Canada opted not to open his for 47 years.
Adrian Pearce first shared his story in a Facebook post on Dec. 18, stating that he received the gift from his former flame. She dumped him and vowed not to unwrap it. He also shared a photo of the gift-giver.
"The yellowed Cellotape (that's what it was called then) will loosen a bit more, the corners will fray yet again and I will drag it out next season to enjoy the mystery of what lies inside," Pearce wrote. In another post on Saturday, Pearce revealed more details about his former partner, which he named as Vicki Allen. He narrated that she left him for an older guy named Wolf.
"She gave me a present at the same time and I took the present home. I had a long walk home and I was all upset and angry, and all the things you feel when somebody breaks up with you," he said in an interview with CBC News.
Because of his anger, he swore never to open the present, and carries that promise until today.
Even years after their falling out, he still put the gift under the tree in the presence of his wife and children, much to her ire. Eventually, his wife said the gift is not allowed to be placed there anymore.
This year, he thought of finally tearing off the wrapper to reveal what was hidden after all these years, but he eventually decided against the idea.
He also recalled a time when he obtained Allen's phone number, through her sister, after their break-up. "I was almost shaking I was so nervous," Pearce said in the report, recalling the moment that he dialed the number, through which his ex-girlfriend can no longer be connected.
As for Pearce's wife, he said that she was now okay with the gift. He even thought of finally ripping open the gift wrap together with his wife on the 50th anniversary of when the gift was given.
"I kept it initially because I guess I had hopes that we would get back together and open it together. Now it's just become a habit after 47 years of looking at it and having the pleasure of not opening it," he explained.
Read the story and got a pretty good idea why the babe broke up with this fruitloop.
Do you have a citation for that?
I immediately threw them away. I know something like that is poison to a relationship.
I always thought the series should have ended with Stottlemeyer being Trudy's real killer. He could have been wracked with guilt all those years, and completely destroyed when Monk finally finds out.
They could even have planted clues over the years, that the great observer Monk ignored because he could not handle the psychic trauma of what they might indicate.
Now that would have been an ending!
Why would he have killed Trudy?
Going to be difficult to cash in that dinner for 2 at Howard Johnson’s certificate.
Oh, some kind of police scandal. He got mixed up with it, and they threatened his wife, or something.
That is why he always looked after Monk and advocated for him. The guilt.
Yeah...my wife would have either opened it or thrown it away (probably both) in year 1.
I have a box in the garage filled with my “old stuff.” Every time I drag it down from its shelf it gets culled a little. Mostly Boy Scout stuff now.
There is a ritual to purging all of the ex’s stuff.
Trudy was about to expose the conspiracy, so she had to be silenced. Stottlemeyer got the job...
Maybe it is eight of his favorite albums on 8-Track Tape...
He was a smart guy. Well, I would have mailed her crap to her. I meant that I got rid of the pictures and gifts and all. I even changed my phone number and closed my last email account she contacted me on. I even still really liked her at the time, but there are certain things I wouldn’t forgive. I would forgive cheating, before I forgive someone who dumped me (without cause).
Like the FedEx package in the Tom Hanks Movie.
But Stottlemeyer wound up married to Trudy, albeit a different Trudy.
All the more the tragedy.
It would have been legendary television. Instead, they introduced a character in the second-to-last episode to pin it on.
Wimps.
The article was about rental storage units being used by criminals for all kinds of things. I wouldn't be surprised if it came out in the year after the OKC bombing. It started with the story of two young men who bid on the unit's contents in a white elephant sale, where bidders aren't allowed a peek inside, and the only info given is how long someone's paid for the unit & the date of last visit. Since this one had been diligently paid for so long, they figured they'd get a good ROI, but were severely disappointed to find just a lot of junk & low value furnishings. Then they finally unrolled a suspiciously heavy rug buried under the biggest junk pile.....
They might not confess to trashing it. (No, honey, I have no idea where that old present is. Did you check the box with the lights?)
Ha!
Thanks for that.
:)
I like that concept.
Monk at least ended up resolved.
More often than not, I can relate to Adrian many days.
<y brother and I have been gifting the same fruitcake back and forth for 27 years. It still seems to be good.
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