Italian Charm Keychain: A Guy's Gift

What if you need to get a present for a male who is purely a casual acquaintance–something that says, “Thank you very much!”

Let me start at the beginning. Things had not been going well for me recently. It was nothing serious, it’s just that I had a little tension in my life. I hadn’t been sleeping well. On this night, I couldn’t seem to get to sleep. Everytime I closed my eyes, a hundred things started racing through my head. I finally decided to just get up, move to the den and watch TV for a while. I finally fell asleep on the sofa and must have slept like a baby. When I awakened, it was 7:30–an hour past my wake-up time. I could vaguely hear my clock radio upstairs in my bedroom. I had to get ready for work and get there fast!

I pulled myself off the couch, took a quick shower, tossed on the clothes that I had put out the night before, grabbed what I needed and raced out the door. Unfortunately, the night before I had to park my car almost a full block way. I took a quick look at my watch to see that I was only going to be about thirty minutes late. I had managed to make up for some of my missing time already. I felt a little relieved until…I got to my car and realized that I didn’t have my keys. I now remembered that those keys were now resting comfortably inside my locked townhouse. You guessed it. My house key was safely on that same keychain! I was not a happy camper.

My neighbor was just coming home from his night-shift job, parking in an open space across the street. As he got out of his car, with a fast-food paper bag containing his breakfast and a cup of coffee in his hand, I almost tackled him as I went across to tell him my problem. I’m sure he pitied me because he immediately helped me into the passenger side of his vehicle, exited his prime parking space and went on to drive me to my job. Not only did he deliver me to my destination on time, but he insisted I eat the breakfast sandwich he had purchased, assuring me that he could stop by the fast food place again for another one on his return back home.

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