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elSicomoro · 11-16-2003, 06:13 PM

Did anyone get a picture of Sharon pointing the knife at Tony?

Now I can reveal how this all came to fruition...

Sharon found my e-mail address on Sycamoreland (one that I have for people to submit comments or questions about the site), and sent this to me on October 20th:

Hi Terry,

It's Sharon. I wanted to let you know that Tony's 40th birthday is coming
up on November 17th.

With everything going on right now, I thought it would be nice to have a
birthday party for him. If we could make it a surprise, that would be all
the better. I understand that it may be awkward for me to be there, so I
can certainly bow out. But I would like to contribute a few hundred dollars
to make it happen and to make it nice for him.

I thought that maybe you could arrange for a small group of local Cellar
people to take him out to dinner (there is a restaurant that he likes that
is very close to our house - it's called the Fitzwater Station). Then
everyone could come back to our house and hang out.

Let me know your thoughts. I'm writing to you from work so that Tony
doesn't see any email correspondence about this. He doesn't read my email,
but I just wanted to make sure he doesn't see any "birthday traffic" across
his system. Let me know if there is a better email address to reach you.
You can also call me on my cell phone at 610-XXX-XXXX.

Thanks,
Sharon

At first I was concerned about throwing such an event, given the impending divorce. But I thought Sharon to be sincere, and after giving it some thought, I said "Sure, let's do it."

So, I sent out a PM to most of the Philly peeps to gauge interest...and there was plenty. So, I chose the date, Sharon booked the room, and the ball was rolling.

The idea of the gift certs for Sam Ash came to me almost immediately, especially when Sheppsie started talking about the ZZ Top cover band. And so, I gathered the funds via PayPal, and bought the gift certs Thursday night.

I asked Wolf and Slang to be there by 5:15 last night...we were going to set up some decorations that I had bought earlier in the day. Unfortunately, I got some bad directions from Rand McNally--not so much bad as that there are two Canal Streets that use a Phoenixville address: one in Phoenixville borough, the other in Mont Clare, just across the canal from Phoenixville (the one we really needed). I was hella pissed, and concerned that we would show up after Tony had already arrived--it was a few minutes past 6 when we finally got to the restaurant.

We pull into the restaurant lot, Dave looks around and says, "I don't see the TT or the GTI." I said, "Let's go!" and we proceeded to run into the restaurant. Fortunately, we got there about 5 minutes before Tony did. No time for decorations, but it was all good.

Glad you had a great time, Tony. Enjoy your real b-day tomorrow.

11-16-2003, 06:13 PM	#19
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Did anyone get a picture of Sharon pointing the knife at Tony? Now I can reveal how this all came to fruition... Sharon found my e-mail address on Sycamoreland (one that I have for people to submit comments or questions about the site), and sent this to me on October 20th: Hi Terry, It's Sharon. I wanted to let you know that Tony's 40th birthday is coming up on November 17th. With everything going on right now, I thought it would be nice to have a birthday party for him. If we could make it a surprise, that would be all the better. I understand that it may be awkward for me to be there, so I can certainly bow out. But I would like to contribute a few hundred dollars to make it happen and to make it nice for him. I thought that maybe you could arrange for a small group of local Cellar people to take him out to dinner (there is a restaurant that he likes that is very close to our house - it's called the Fitzwater Station). Then everyone could come back to our house and hang out. Let me know your thoughts. I'm writing to you from work so that Tony doesn't see any email correspondence about this. He doesn't read my email, but I just wanted to make sure he doesn't see any "birthday traffic" across his system. Let me know if there is a better email address to reach you. You can also call me on my cell phone at 610-XXX-XXXX. Thanks, Sharon At first I was concerned about throwing such an event, given the impending divorce. But I thought Sharon to be sincere, and after giving it some thought, I said "Sure, let's do it." So, I sent out a PM to most of the Philly peeps to gauge interest...and there was plenty. So, I chose the date, Sharon booked the room, and the ball was rolling. The idea of the gift certs for Sam Ash came to me almost immediately, especially when Sheppsie started talking about the ZZ Top cover band. And so, I gathered the funds via PayPal, and bought the gift certs Thursday night. I asked Wolf and Slang to be there by 5:15 last night...we were going to set up some decorations that I had bought earlier in the day. Unfortunately, I got some bad directions from Rand McNally--not so much bad as that there are two Canal Streets that use a Phoenixville address: one in Phoenixville borough, the other in Mont Clare, just across the canal from Phoenixville (the one we really needed). I was hella pissed, and concerned that we would show up after Tony had already arrived--it was a few minutes past 6 when we finally got to the restaurant. We pull into the restaurant lot, Dave looks around and says, "I don't see the TT or the GTI." I said, "Let's go!" and we proceeded to run into the restaurant. Fortunately, we got there about 5 minutes before Tony did. No time for decorations, but it was all good. Glad you had a great time, Tony. Enjoy your real b-day tomorrow.