Why You Should Never Let the Children Open the Junk Mail....

Yeah, I know I said I'd tell you about the trip. Before I get there, though, a funny domestic moment from yesterday...

First, let's set the scene. I'm upstairs in the powder room applying my spackle before heading to town. I was waiting for the mail to be delivered before I headed out, just in case a fat check arrived. (It didn't.)

My daughter calls up the stairs that the mailman had just arrived. Should she go get the mail out of the box? Well of course she should!

As I continued to powder and smear and spackle, the following loud inter-floor conversation ensues:

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Me: "So, did I get my big check in the mail or what?"

Courtney: "You got a letter from Capital One. It says you must be paying too much in interest on your credit card. Oh, and you got a letter from Cloud Ten Travel."

Me: "Cloud Ten Travel? I've never heard of that. More junk mail. Must be a free trip to Ireland or something. Must be a very short trip if it fits in an envelope, ha ha."

Courtney: "You want me to open it and see what it is?"

Me: "Yeah sure. Knock yourself out."

(I continue to try and make my face presentable to the faint sounds of paper tearing. Then, I hear my daughter burst out in peals of hysterical laughter from the kitchen.)

Me: "What's so funny?"

Courtney: "Mom, you need to come and see this! OMG!"

So, just what arrived in the innocuous looking envelope from Cloud Ten Travel?

Sexual Lubrication, that's what!

Apparently I'm booked in Seat 1A on the Pleasure Plane to Cloud Ten. Where the hell is that, anyway. and what's the exchange rate like? Do they feed vegans there? So many questions. Thank God my children are accustomed to the strange and unusual happenings around here...lube in the mail didn't faze them in the least!

Unfortunately, there's no way to casually lure my husband upstairs now to give Cloud Ten the old college try, now that the children are wise to the deal. This one may have to wait until teenage memories start to fade. Be assured, however, that I'll be back with a review when I reach that cloud!

Peace....