Today, Yara and I went to a nice tool & gadget party for our friends Christy and Mitch. They are both great people and we are happy for them. We gave them a Henckels kitchen scissor set. This whole idea of new wedding showers was kind of a funny topic.

Yara and Minal wanted to have chocolate party where all the guests brought chocolate of course. Matt also wanted this, but also brilliantly came up with a guns & knives party. I wanted an exotic car party. It didn’t hurt that I saw an Acura NSX for sale today. What would be the ideal male party? I think some government money should be used to explore this. The societal consequences could be breathtaking.

Mitch did do all right in the gadget side of things. He snagged a compound miter saw and drill set. Christy bagged a toaster, scissors, 2 stud finders (I suppose some of the guests didn’t think highly of Mitch! ), roasting pan, and other kitchen like things. I find that hilarious about many of the med school women getting such nice kitchen stuff is that I don’t see them ever using it. Not because they can’t cook, just because these women are so busy.

Mitch and Christy are only having this one shower before the wedding. Some couples have multiple tiers of wedding showers. Ornament parties, Groom’s family wedding shower, Bride’s family wedding shower, regular wedding shower, gadget shower, wedding announcement shower, post wedding shower, what-the-hell-I-think-you-have-more-money shower and so on and so forth. It’s a great haul for the couples and for the stores that have registries. Electronics Boutique needs a registry. Whenever I get married, it’ll be a massive haul too. I might suggest some bath parties. They may take longer than these showers and longer means more expensive gifts.