Comments on: Situation Normal: All Fouled Up (that would be the family friendly version).

By: Leta

Leta — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:34:08 +0000

Hey Sweetie ~ E-mail me an address and I’ll hit the “for her” aisle at the card store and send you an assortment. You can distibute them as you choose.

Love and kisses.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:56:36 +0000

Hey Dave! Dani sent me the link. Thanks for the good wishes and congratulations on your own family. You stay safe over there! It’s good to know that the anti-ballistics materials I’m working on will help save people I know. I agree that any card you send your wife will make her day. And the cluelessness with the BX is nothing new from the stories my Dad tell from his time in. Be safe!

By: Maureen

Maureen — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 19:18:24 +0000

When my hubby was in first Yemen, then Qatar, I mostly got blank cards that he wrote in, or a coupla notes on hotel stationery. (He got cushy duty in Doha – working in the DAO, billeted at the Ritz-Carlton!)

I’m with Marie – seeing your actual handwriting in the mail will probably be the most important thing. Heck, a really stupid card might give her a good laugh.

I don’t recommend the desert hedgehog, or at least not an actual one; they’re not the best travelers. Poor thing would probably get horrendously airsick or miss its connecting flight and end up at Elmendorf.

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:19:37 +0000

Maybe you could send her a desert hedgehog.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 13:19:00 +0000

Well, I’m trying to come up with something else, hopefully it will work out, but at the least there will be a phone call on the special day…

By: Cuppycake

Cuppycake — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:27:24 +0000

Marie,
Too true!

By: John

John — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 03:57:46 +0000

Better watch out the hallmark police have scanning algorithms that are as good as they who shall be nameless. Of course they use the same ones to write the cards, so maybe your OK.

By: marie

marie — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:41:55 +0000

I am a military wife (also on Okinawa)just wanted to let you know that I agree that AAFES is clueles, but also give where you are, that your wife would have probably been thrild that you put out the effort, and would not have cared if you had sent a Christmas Card as long as the thought was there!

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:15:08 +0000

I always prefer to just write a letter or a note, I find most cards you see at the stores as pretty appalling. I suspect however that what you saw is a classic example of something I see in the UK all the time, when the popular stuff sells out you don’t replace it until all the other unpopular stuff sells out too. It is a handy way to avoid making any money, something many British stores specialize in.