Jars
>From: "chevy29127"
>Reply-To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [LbNA] A Nice, True Valentine's Day Story for Everyone: "Love In a
>Letterbox"
>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:03:13 -0000
>
>
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I had originally posted this on the Letterboxing-SOcal Yahoo group
>message board, and upon Don's recommendation, I am posting it again
>here...
>
>Allow me to tell you about my love for letterboxing or in this
>case,
>letterboxing for my love (this sounds so cryptic, but it will all
>become very clear to you by the end of this story).
>
>Last Friday, 2/11, I got a message through the LbNA website from a
>new letterboxer named "StevieFranklin2005" in regards to my
>Wooly's
>LB. The message was as follows:
>
>"If I find your Wooly Letterbox on Saturday (2/12/2005), I will
>place
>a hitchhiker stamp in it! I hope I understand your clues. PLEASE look
>for my stamp on Sunday; I am quite proud of it."
>
>I haven't been doing this LB'ing thing for very long, but the
>did seem to be a little outside of conventional LB'ing protocol.
>I've
>always viewed HH's as little surprises, and here this guy was,
>declaring to me that upon the discovery of one of my boxes, he was
>going to triumphantly plant a HH there to show his conquest. I was a
>little amused by the fact that this person was so enthusiastic about
>planting a HH, he absolutely HAD to tell me about it and ruin the
>surprise. I attributed this behavior to the possibility that he was
>so new at this that he didn't know any better.
>
>Anyhow, I emailed him back and told him that I was sure it looked
>very nice and that I looked forward to seeing it.
>
>I told my boyfriend about it that night, and we both chuckled. My
>boyfriend is not as interested in LB'ing as I am. He doesn't
>care
>much for carving stamps and hiding them, but he does enjoy finding
>the stamps with me, as well as the places it takes us to. He
>suggested that we should check it out when we had a chance. Seeing
>that he actually was up for some minor letterboxing, how could I
>refuse?
>
>So Sunday, 2/13 rolled around. Since it was Valentine's Day
>weekend,
>he had made dinner reservations for us at a nice local restaurant for
>7:30. We had spent that morning running a 5K in Chinatown, and then
>afterward stayed there for the Chinese New Year festivities. By the
>time we got home in the afternoon, we were bushed, so we took a nap,
>and he woke us up at around 6PM and said we should get ready to go
>out. Now, my boyfriend is typically not a very punctual person, so I
>was impressed that he wanted to get up a little earlier so we would
>have some time to go look for the HH and still make it to the
>restaurant in time. I figured he thought I would enjoy stamping the
>HH in my logbook.
>
>It was pretty much dark when we got to Wooly's hiding spot.
>I'd never
>really been there at night, and was surprised to find that the
>location is pretty well lit, with a warm yellowish light emanating
>from the streetlight. We retrieved the box and I sat on a bench and
>opened it. I saw the HH wrapped in a napkin sitting in a little
>baggie. The first thing I noticed was that the HH didn't have its
>own
>logbook. I looked in my Wooly's logbook and saw that C-Bear and
>Koko
>had been there that day and stamped in, but no HH imprint!! I
>couldn't help but think that StevieFranklin2005 definitely was
>new at
>this, and that he should have at least looked up how to create a HH
>somewhere online. "Well, I'll just look at the stamp itself,
>then," I
>thought to myself. I took it out of the bag and unwrapped it. It
>wasn't as impressive as StevieFranklin2005 had described it to
>be. It
>only had a few words and some hearts carved into it. I kind of
>figured out what the words said and found that it was a
>Valentine's
>Day themed HH!! I was beginning to think what an interesting idea it
>was to place a themed HH in my box, when I heard my boyfriend ask
>me, "So what does it say?" I looked up and saw him busily
>kneeling
>down tying his shoe.
>
>"It's funny," I said, "It says `Will You Marry
>Me?'"
>
>"Well, will you?"
>
>I looked up at him again, somewhat confused. There he was, kneeling
>in front of me, with a little box in his hands. I was totally
>floored!!! The ring was beautiful! And OF COURSE I SAID YES!!!
>
>The funny thing is, as my mind was swimming around in all the
>excitement, I was still confused, and wondered where
>StevieFranklin2005's HH was. In case you hadn't figured it
>out by now
>(like me), it turned out my boyfriend, now "fiance," had
>made it all
>up!! I had no idea he could be so creative.
>
>Today I got an email from C-Bear and Koko telling me they had found
>my box and that there was a personal stamp in there for me. I found
>that hilarious! Thanks to the two of you for not having mistaken the
>stamp for a real HH, and for contributing to the best moment of my
>life!!!
>
>I have always been appreciative of the places that LB'ing has
>taken
>me to, but never did I imagine that it would take me here!!!
>
>HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!!!!!
>
>
>
>
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