Isn't is amazing how family traditions are born?
About twenty years ago, just before Richard's 7th birthday, I went to a store called "Pic-n-Save" (now "Big Lots") to get some birthday things to decorate the house with. I was so pleased with myself because I found a Happy Birthday sign for .29 cents. I raved about my great deal to Gordon and was so excited for the kids to go to bed so I could decorate the house. The time finally came and I began. I got everything done and the last thing to go up was the "Happy Birthday" sign. I opened the package, unrolled the sign and couldn't believe my eyes.
"Happy Birthday Chuck"??? No wonder it was .29 cents! Since it was late, we decided to leave it up. As we looked at the sign hanging there, we began to laugh and laugh and it became hysterically funny at that late hour.
We left it up. Birthday after birthday, year after year.
"Happy Birthday Chuck" became a coveted title for each birthday in the family. We loved the reaction we got when people would come to the door and ask, "who is Chuck?" Visitors wondered when we sang, "Happy Birthday Dear Chu-uck".
We had that sign for about nine years. One year, Richard decorated the dining room for one of his "friends that was a girl's" birthday breakfast. When it was over, he and his friends rolled all the decorations up and put them in the garbage, including the Chuck sign. I didn't discover it until Monday at about noon.
Just after the garbage truck had come.
Goodbye Chuck sign.
I can't tell you how much we mourned the loss of our beloved family heirloom. Birthdays would never be the same. We couldn't bring ourselves to get another sign.
We had almost resigned ourselves to the loss when, for "birthday week" in January, Gordon's brother Larry and his wife Janie got us this replacement "Chuck" sign along with a mini "Chuck" mug that everyone gets to use on their birthday. Although we missed the original sign (it was puny and ripped at the edges, but we were attached to it), we were relieved to have a replacement. We have had it for eleven years now, longer than we had the original.
I love the name "Chuck".
9 comments:
I don't think I've heard that story in its entirety.
I remember when I started dating Ben Brooke asked me if you guys still used the Happy Birthday Chuck sign. It has apparently touched more than your family...everybody remembers it!
excellent story. I wish it were my story. Happy Birthday Dear Chu-uck!
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