Whitney's Whirligig World: My Favorite Christmas/New Year's Eve Moments 2014

1) A man walks into a grocery store and buys several different types of chocolates for stocking-stuffer gifts. By accident the man forgets the bag contains the chocolate at the store and doesn't realize it until a few days later. The man returns to the store and addresses one of the store clerks.

"I did something stupid a few days ago," the man starts to explain.

"I know who you are," the store clerk interrupts. "You forgot your chocolates. I ran out into the parking lot to give them to you but you were already gone. I put all the chocolate back on the shelves but wrote down what you had bought so go ahead and gathering it all up again," the store clerk says with a smile.

The man thanks her, gathers his chocolates and gives them out for Christmas as originally planned.

2)A woman is shopping for Christmas gifts a booth fair. One of the last booths she visits has these fantastic little helicopter toys. She goes to purchase them but the salesman running the booth can't accept credits, only cash. The woman realizing she doesn't have enough cash and goes to puts the toys back.

"Go ahead and take them and just send me a check when you can," the salesman says.

"Your going to let me takes these and trust that I will pay you?" the woman asks surprised.

"Yeah," the man says handing her a card with his address and the amount she owes.

"I figure I can either go through life trusting the people around me and be happy or not trusting the people around me and be miserable," the man says handing the woman the card.

The woman takes the toy helicopters, returns home and promptly mails a check and a thank you note to the salesman.

3) My dad and I are sitting at the dinner table one day.

"So on my plane ride home there was this movie playing. I didn't see the beginning of it nor the end of it and didn't recognize any of the actors in it. I really liked it though," my dad explains. He goes on to explain the plot of the movie. By some miracle I remember watching a movie preview the night before that sounds a lot like the movie my dad was describing.

A few days later I watch that movie preview again and it has to be the same movie my dad was talking about however the movie is rated R. My dad doesn't watch rated R movies. I jump onto google and start searching for edited movies. After several hours of searching I have found several different ways to illegal download edited movies but I don't think a DVD is worth going to jail or being fined over.

A few days later an idea pops into my head. I bet I could find a blue box somewhere. Blue box is the edited movie version of red box. I google a few different locations for blue box but when I actually go to the locations there is no blue box. I thought I'd give it one last try. If there was going to be a blue box it would be located on the BYU-I college campus (a religous college). I drive to the campus and starting walking down the sidewalk. I start asking random students who happen to be walking by.

"Hey is there a blue box movie rental neaby?" I ask.

"Not that I know of, sorry," the first random student says.

"I don't thinkg so," the second random student replies.

"I think there's a blue box in the Turner apartment building #3," the third random student tells me. So I proceed to stalk the Turner apartment builds. Sure enough there is a blue box in building #3. I cross my fingers and hold my breath and by some miracle there is the movie I am searching for.

Christmas Day, my dad opens his present and looks at the DVD. "Do you remember that movie you saw on the plane that you didn't see the beginning or the end of? That's the movie," I say with a smile.

"Really?" he says with a laugh.

I love it when the perfect Christmas present comes together.

If you put on these paper glasses every light you looked at became a smiling reindeer! Totally changed Christmas for me forever. It was so stupidly awesome I found myself wearing them all Christmas day.