My long time friend is going to tie the knot next week and I really wanted to give her something that is practical and usable. Not just ornaments or fancy dinner wares that she and her husband wouldn’t use anyway. I am not being a cheapskate, it’s just I know my friend, she is Ms. Practical. She is not into fancy, complicated, expensive stuff.
So I went by the mall yesterday, still thinking of what I can give her, taking mental notes that she intended to be a stay at home wife and that she loves to cook. She would probably end up doing nothing but chopping, cooking and baking for the first few years of her marriage. And out of nowhere, I saw it, the perfect gift for my practical pal, standing sturdy and elegant in a shelf under a large cardboard sign that says Convection Toaster Ovens. I was really excited then, a toaster and an oven rolled into one. I remembered my friend complaining that her oven was bulky but she likes what it can do, she added that if it could just be smaller but a little larger than her oven toaster then she would be in total bliss. I asked the salesperson if it could do all the things you do in an oven by using this little-bigger-than-toaster-thing I am looking at and she said yes, I smiled and pictured my friend in total bliss.
