Guess what I spent my Christmas morning doing? Searching for scratch-offs that my Grandma received for Christmas. Her Christmas presents didn't make it home with her yesterday, so I dropped them off on my way to Mom and Dad's today. There was one gift missing. She had received a rather large pile of scratch-offs and they couldn't be found anywhere. I looked through her bag of goodies over and over. I called my mom and I called my Auntie Jan. They both told me to tell her to look in her purse - even though she swore that they weren't in her purse. Just as she suspected, they weren't in there. I told her that I would look for them at Mom and Dad's house. I started unpacking all of her presents. She looked at me and said that we should look in the new shoes that she received. I had checked the shoe box three times over, but we checked it again. I pulled the shoes out and checked in and around the shoes. This time I noticed that there was a cardboard piece that lined the bottom of the shoe box. I pulled it up and she had hidden her scratch-offs in this super-secret compartment in the shoebox with her brand new shoes! I am not sure who she thought was going to take her scratch-offs, but she hid them so well that I almost threw them away! I was one step away from putting the shoes in the closet and throwing the shoe box away.
I would like to apologize to my future grandchildren, because one day you will be searching for something really important that I hid from the world! And, when we find it, I am just going to look at you and grin. Then, I'm going say, "Well, I'll be..." All because you can do these things when you are 92 years old.
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