well whaddaya know...

as i was walking along last night with my aunt, i glanced in a tree. in the tree there was a Ziploc bag mostly covered in dead leaves and twigs. at first i thought it was drugs, since we were in an especially bad neighbourhood, but me being me, i looked anyway. after uncovering it, i saw that it was a present, wrapped in thick, rich navy blue paper, with raffia ribbon tied around it in a pretty bow. i grabbed it and turned to my aunt and asked if it was for me, not because i thought she put it there, but because i was just asking out loud. she said it was, so i opened it. it turns out that it was a movie that i have adored and wanted for a very long time. it was still wrapped in its original plastic store wrapping, with no price tag, and no name or note anywhere on the present, or the bag, or the wrapping paper.

i grinned from ear to ear. seeing as it is almost my birthday, or at least it's coming up, and there was just a random present from the universe sitting there waiting for me.

when we walked back in the opposite direction i left a note in the Ziploc bag that thanked whomever gave it to me.