Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Why is a coffee mug like a writing desk?
no, I’m serious… Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine can easily imagine how good/pleased/(I’d say delighted but fear that would sound… I don’t know, a little X-Chromish) I felt when, upon Phyllis’ arrival home the other night and said, “Did you know there were packages on the porch. I think one is the clothes I ordered…”*
Well. I came up the stairs, a rectangle box that was littered with slogans and icons of LL Bean in one hand, and in the other, a cube of styrofoam. Not exactly a cube, more of a decahedron of styrofoam. I looked for a return address and finding none, walked out (through the French doors in the dining area) to the deck and scanned the trees surrounding the house.
There was a cup inside the cube decahedron. And the cup is, well you can see it above. It is a lot like the first mug and undeniably quite different. Let me show you:
…that’s how a mug is like a story.
Thank you, mug-fairy(s)**
(Best be careful in them trees, hear tell there’s some snow in the future for them of us in New England)
* note: I always come into the house through the garage, which is sorta under the main living area and so will hardly ever notice parcels or packages on the front porch. I put a photo in the ‘cover photo’ for this post. You can kinda see the design in the photo
** no, I totally agree, not a major risk of that term gaining traction in the world of fun surprise anonymous gifts of coffee mugs that contain a secret story.
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I think you now officially have a collection! :-)
you’re right…. oh man! there is a story there (fiction) (someone stop me now)
hey! you want to co-write a story? so…. Beauty and the Beast 10 Years Later
(lol, no wait! hear me out! it’s because of what you said! “…I officially have a collection” so it’s a collection we can see that descends from my original ‘beastly’ mug. ok I should look up the story of Beauty and the Beast, before I pitch you on the idea, but what does their family look like? And what is the effect of an extreme opposite in a parent)
lol I trust you can dissuade me from pursuing this idea. I need to write another Sister Margaret Ryan book or maybe something even shorter.
Well you are right, this is truly delightful! I am envisioning the tree fairies showering you with a whole row of polkadot mugs, each a little different. What a fun thing to make you and the rest of us smile! I love blogger friends, they are the best!
lol I totally agree!
Too cool.
way too
🤔🤔🤔🤔
(damn I am so aphemojic)
So so cool! My bet is that ZoeIvyPersonLady… You have to keep the glued-up one though. It’s just too damn delightful for the trash. That it holds liquid is like a science experiment.
Very cool! Polka dot phantoms rule :D
Yes! Another Sister Margaret Ryan story! And why the hell not….Beauty and the Beast ala Almira, “there is always more to the story”.
why the hell not, indeed