Surprise! Bringing joy to people
Jeep ducking.
Have you heard about it, or have you maybe participate in this fun little happening?
Daughter-Unit has a Jeep SUV and found out about ducking. The idea is to surprise someone with a little rubber duck placed on their jeep. She's been doing this for about a year, and normally doesn't get to observe the results of a person finding the little gift. A couple of weeks ago, she had just ducked a Jeep, and had gotten into her car just as the man came to his Jeep. She was delighted to see him laughing and holding his little duck and showing it to other people.
Wouldn't it be nice to make someone's day, or for our day to be brightened, by little surprises like that? I have heard of people sneaking money and gift cards into boxes of diapers to help people who might be in need. Single mothers would find this especially joyful!
There must be other fun, anonymous ways for people to surprise folks with an unexpected little gift. Do you know of any? Or have you thought of ways to do something similar?
Have you heard about it, or have you maybe participate in this fun little happening?
Daughter-Unit has a Jeep SUV and found out about ducking. The idea is to surprise someone with a little rubber duck placed on their jeep. She's been doing this for about a year, and normally doesn't get to observe the results of a person finding the little gift. A couple of weeks ago, she had just ducked a Jeep, and had gotten into her car just as the man came to his Jeep. She was delighted to see him laughing and holding his little duck and showing it to other people.
Wouldn't it be nice to make someone's day, or for our day to be brightened, by little surprises like that? I have heard of people sneaking money and gift cards into boxes of diapers to help people who might be in need. Single mothers would find this especially joyful!
There must be other fun, anonymous ways for people to surprise folks with an unexpected little gift. Do you know of any? Or have you thought of ways to do something similar?
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Ouch!
I fished our neighbours out of bed on Thursday night to see the aurora. Luckily they remembered I'd promised to if it came again, or I'd have been very unpopular!
We have quite a lot of dump trucks and debris removal companies on the roads right now. One of the trucks I was following Friday had a "Florida Strong" message on the back. Underneath was scrawled in the dirt "Kentucky Driver"!
It made me laugh!!
I have an abundance of basil in a little bed between the building and the sidewalk, and when someone admires it while I'm tending to it, I offer them some. Been giving away basil for months.
Thank you. I didn't know about picking sweet peas to keep them flowering. I'm about to plant a a couple of packets of them. I will share them round the neighbourhood.
It also seems that cruise passengers (not the cruise operator!) have also begun hiding rubber ducks on the ship. Again, just to delight people.
I'd want to let the tyres down on jeeps, not give the owners a pleasant surprise...
But that's just me ...
Mwa ha ha ha ...
Chocolate, please.
Apparently there are no rules against ducking other kinds of cars. My car is not a Jeep, but I have one on my dash beside Yoda! Apparently Chevys do a similar thing but with sharks!
This is a world to which I am not party.
Me too. I collect little charity shop vases and take little posies to people - including my physio and chiropodist. 🥰
Chevy is short for car company Chevrolet.
Jeeps are, well, Jeeps. There is a possible connection to Eugene the Jeep, a character from Popeye.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_the_Jeep
https://youtu.be/imCDVzNJkp4?si=4yQHlmdt0RU3y-OV
I do not own a Jeep (and very much regret the prevalence of the SUV in general), but I'm fortunate to have not had my vehicle ducked with.
You are free to call me a grumpy old curmudgeon, but leaving some little object on my car wouldn't bring me joy - it would bring me mild annoyance, because now I have to deal with removing the object from my car before I drive off, and then I further have to deal with disposing of the object in some responsible fashion.
Yes, I know what they are. I'm just saying it's a world to which I'm not party.
Put it on another nearby car. They may be delighted by it!
Well, of course not--Popeye and his world are fictional. Of course, perhaps the Jeep could teleport here, and---
Oh, you mean the cars!
Never mind.
Now my little car (Sarah Jane V)(fifth generation of the proud Sarah Jane line) is a little Ducky Girl. She loves her duckies (which is her distinct trait to separate her from the prior Sarahs; each one has a distinct trait)(Sarah Jane IV was much more into Hello Kitty). But Sarah Jane V is NOT spoiled. She just has the absolute basic duckies that any little girl would be expected to have. She has Mr. Quackers, who is her ducky when she has a bath. And there is Ducky Bear (a ducky wearing a little bear costume) for bed time. Both of those she inherited from her ancestor Sarahs. But for her self she has Party Duck (bought when she first came under my care). And then when she passed her physical she was awarded with Dragon Ducky. And then true-friend-of-my-heart Penelope gave her Jazzy Ducky (which is waaaaaaaay too long a story to explain, but amazingly sweet, as Penelope is) and Reindeer Ducky. And that was it for a time. But after I declined to take the hotel duck (see prior post) Penelope decided that Sarah Jane needed more duckies, so she presented a box full. Because Sarah is NOT spoiled, I limit her to only 2 additional duckies per month. So, this being October and Halloween month, she currently has Ducky Witch and Pumpkin Ducky, but come November that will change to Turkey Ducky and Pilgrim Ducky.
So she is NOT spoiled. Just the normal ducks any little girl would be expected to have.
Oh, and of course, when she went in recently to have some recall work done at the dealership, she was accompanied by Doctor Ducky and Nurse Ducky, but that is only proper medical care. They aren't with her under normal circumstances. She is NOT spoiled.
In fact, I've never seen anything left on motor vehicles hereabouts bar the odd parking ticket.
Maybe it's not a Scottish thing to be wasting the bawbees on such skibbrie.
You'll have had your tea.
NE Man: Someone has put a cucumber through our letter box.
Me: Well, put it in the fridge.
NEM: Someone has put a cucumber through our letter box.
Me: Fridge.
NEM: Someone has put a cucumber through our letter-box
Me: (getting exasperated) Fridge!
NEM: Who would put a cucumber through our letter-box?
Me: Could be anyone. Put it in the fridge.
NEM: (now totally baffled) Anyone? But why would anyone put a cucumber through our letter-box?
Me: It'll be a buy-one-get-one-free offer. Someone only wanted one cucumber, but didn't want to turn down the free one, so they took it and thought we could use it.
NEM: (mind blown).
Turns out to have come from the lady next door. (I think she's entitled to use a food bank and they'd given her something she knew she wouldn't eat. Would have been rude to ask her though.)
And how did you use it?
You weren't baffled?!?
I now have an image of the North East Household being the dumping ground for excess cucumbers, and of you coming home to find a dozen of the things on the doormat, courtesy of a dozen people who had encountered the same BOGOF offer.
...And any unexpected joyful surprises!
One of my favorite surprises for my dad was organizing a parade for his 90th birthday! The look of delight on his face was priceless!
Yes, this is another grumpy old curmudgeon speaking.
Happy surprises are in a different category, I think! Like the time I was in the fast food drive through and found that the person ahead of me had paid for my meal!