early gift
i spoke to cam this afternoon and asked him to delay picking me up from work because i was running a little behind.
sure, no problem, he said. "i'll go to best buy."
i thought nothing of it.
he arrived later than expected, but no big deal. friday traffic is unpredictable.
out of nowhere, he started talking about a valentine's day present. he wanted to give it to me early, but he wanted me to promise that i wouldn't alter our weekend plans. the hell? i was baffled. what were our weekend plans? i didn't want to promise.
me: how can i promise something without knowing why?
him: you'll know as soon as i give it to you.
me: you want me to promise something i don't understand just because you don't want to wait.
him: yes. feh.
me: i won't promise.
him: hey!
me: [nonsensical rambling]
him: [nonsensical rambling]
me: fine. i promise.
he reached in the back for something and dropped a hard little brown box in my lap. it had a thin leather strap wound around it. i turned the box over and oh my freaking god, it was a louis vuitton box! i opened it up and there was a beautiful blue epi porte-monnaie billets viennois (i could have just said french purse, but i felt the need to be pretentious) inside. i know i said i wanted a wallet -- in fact, i listed that on my christmas wish list -- but no way did i ever expect this. instead of going to best buy, he went to the lv boutique in century city.
that was why he wanted me to promise -- he wanted me to still go to an lv store and buy my bag, and he knew that this would make me skip it if he didn't bind me to going. he's such a dear.
amusingly enough, he was suddenly an expert. "get the speedy 25," he told me knowledgeably. the 30 was too big. apparently he had looked at both sizes in monogram canvas and at a red epi speedy 25. unsurprisingly (he is not a fan of the monogram), he was pimping the epi speedy pretty hard. "but didn't we rule out the epi in black because of the gold hardware?" i asked (not to mention the almost $300 price difference between the epi and the monogram). cam, that old navy-clad font of lv knowledge, piped up that no, they now offered both gold and silver hardware on all of the epis. so there you have it.
later that evening he was telling me about his shopping experience. the sales associate had originally not treated him as a serious customer, but was eventually friendly. (um, yeah, you walked in there dressed like a telecommuting programmer and paid $600+ for a wallet without a fuss.) a female shopper was flummoxed to hear that he was buying a valentine's day present and made jealous noises.
didn't i just say that cam was too cool? what a sweetheart.