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I really don\u2019t need gifts, but is it too much to expect anniversary cards? I receive business anniversary cards<\/a><\/strong> from my company, The Gallery Collection, commemorating the wonderful day I first walked through the door. Well, not really. It\u2019s more about the anniversary of when I started working on a regular basis because I had worked on a seasonal basis for several years before becoming a regular employee. Yes, I know it\u2019s a greeting card company, but that doesn\u2019t mean that they have to send me an anniversary card.<\/p>\n

You would think that my husband would remember that he was lucky enough to marry me 35 years ago. Ok, so maybe the fire distracted him. Well, is that really a good enough excuse? Didn\u2019t he think about getting me an anniversary card before our anniversary?<\/p>\n

Oh, you want to hear about the fire? On my anniversary, I received a call at work from my son. With a slightly hysterical tone, he says \u201cTHE GARAGE IS ON FIRE!\u201d It seems my husband and son were having a leisurely lunch when someone knocked on the door and said \u201cYou have to get out \u2013 the garage is on fire.\u201d Well, what good would it do for me to go home and stand outside and watch, especially since I have asthma? So I stayed at work and kept getting updates from my husband and son.<\/p>\n

When I went home at my usual time, I walked into chaos. It seemed the whole family was there plus the neighbors, the firemen, the police, and assorted unknowns. The garage was burned, wet, and smoke damaged. The siding on the back of the house was melted along with the neighbors siding and all the patio furniture. How it didn\u2019t damage the car in the driveway is beyond my comprehension. Everybody hung around until almost ten o\u2019clock and had pizza (which I paid for) and nobody even wished me a Happy Anniversary. Okay, maybe they were preoccupied.<\/p>\n

After the last person departed, I sarcastically asked my husband, \u201cIs it really too much to expect an anniversary card?\u201d Hopefully he\u2019ll redeem himself in a few months by giving me some fantastic birthday cards<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A little house fire shouldn\u2019t prevent a husband from giving his wife anniversary cards, right?","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1292,1297,1298,34],"tags":[35,38,46,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-occasions-and-celebrations","7":"category-birthday-inspiration","8":"category-anniversary-messages","9":"category-anniversary-cards","10":"tag-business-anniversary-cards","11":"tag-birthday-cards","12":"tag-employee","13":"tag-husband","14":"cs-entry"},"yoast_head":"\nAnniversary Cards: Is it Really too Much to Expect Them? 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