I arrived at Pier 1, a gift card in hand (thanks to my mother-in-law) and a 20% off coupon for recently moving into the area, yet not really in need of anything.
I came home with a giant spoon in the back of my car.
We've lived on a student budget for so long: every purchase so agonizing; each line of logic for why we should buy something so easily dismantled. The absurdity of walking into a store juggling my three young children and walking out juggling a giant spoon as well? Irresistible.
My baby pulled it off the wall twice before I wised up and moved his high chair. It's pretty much the most impractical thing ever, yet a secret part of me thrills whenever someone walks into our kitchen and is struck by the incongruity of it all.
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I LOVE your giant spoon.
ReplyDeleteI think, perhaps, my favorite moments are when I hear Junie and her little friends discussing exactly why we have a giant spoon on our wall. Proposed theories thus far:
Delete1. we stole it from a giant
2. Dad uses it
3. Bustopher Jones lost it. You found it and you're just hanging on to it until he can come pick it up.
Deletethat is one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteperhaps also the most impractical, but yes, one of the coolest as well.
DeleteThat is all sorts of cool. Also fitting for your blog!
ReplyDeleteThanks! There was also a giant fork at Pier 1 that was very tempting. But the giant spoon's connection with the blog trumped all.
DeleteSpoon was indeed a good choice. Giant knife might have been a little intimidating...
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I guess they considered that when designing the options. A fork, a spoon, a spatula, but no knife.
DeleteBut I can just see it: a fork, knife and spoon hung to the corresponding sides of a circular window...
This gigantic spoon, your write up about it Jennie, and the exuberant comments about it here have all combined to seriously cheer me up today.
ReplyDeleteHow much was it?
ReplyDeleteI want one.
did you find out?
DeleteHow much was it?
ReplyDeleteI want one.
do you know what the dimensions are?
ReplyDeleteHi. I am currently searching for a comically large sized spoon, and I see that you are in possession of one. Dp you know of any way I could get my hands on said giant spoon.
ReplyDeleteOnly a spoonful
ReplyDeleteIce cream and cake do the ice cream and cake
Deletehow much does it cost? and where did you buy it?
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