In the “WTF Gifts” thread, I mentioned the meat cleaver I found in my Christmas stocking.
But it’s okay. We all got meat cleavers in our Christmas stockings. Well, not all, but damn near every one of us. Me, my wife, my brother, my cousin, my stepsister, all the way down the line. There were like eight meat cleavers sitting on the table when we were done.
If we’d been setting up to play a strange variation of Go Fish wherein meat cleavers are employed instead of cards, we’d be all set.
It’s probably the only time in my life where somebody could have come into the room, approached any person at the table, and asked, “Pardon me, but do you have a meat cleaver?” and be almost guaranteed to receive an affirmative response. “Yes,” the randomly selected individual could say, “I do in fact have a meat cleaver.”
If wishes were meat cleavers, we’d have all been eating steak. Or something.
Anyway.
It turned out for the best. We asked a friend if he could use a meat cleaver. He said yes. Now he has a meat cleaver, and we have just one. If any meat-cleaver-free readers happened to be thinking they could take advantage of our superabundance in the meat cleaver department, I am sorry to disappoint you and your meat cleaver needs, for said surfeit of meat cleavers has been remedied by regifting.
I certainly hope there is no meat cleaver crisis in the near future, wherein we shall be called upon to produce not one but meat cleavers in plural, or we will be up the creek without a… well, without a meat cleaver.