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SANTA OF SOAP

 

 

 

 

 

 

WOULD YOU LIKE THE TITLE OF "SANTA OF SOAP"?  IT WOULD BE EASY TO GAIN THAT TITLE,  ALL YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO IS CONFESS.  NOT TO A CRIME BUT TO BEING THE ONE THAT SENT ME A BAR OF LIFEBUOY SOAP BACK IN MARCH.

 

MY STORY “LIFEBUOY” THAT I WROTE BACK IN AUGUST OF 2001 ABOUT LOSING A FRIEND OF OVER 40 YEARS PROBABLY MOTIVATED YOU TO SEND THE BAR OF SOAP.  I DON’T KNOW WHAT CAUSED YOU TO SEND IT ANONYMOUSLY.

 

BUT THAT IS THE REASON I WROTE THE STORY “THE OTHER SHOE” IN WHICH I SAID I GOT THE BAR OF LIFEBUOY SOAP IN A PACKAGE WITH NO RETURN ADDRESS ON IT.  THE PACKAGE DID HAVE A NOTE IN IT AND IT SAID,

 

“REUNITING TWO OLD FRIENDS.”

 

IT REALLY BUGGED ME FOR A WHILE THAT NO ONE OWNED UP TO SENDING THAT BAR OF SOAP BUT AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS I LET IT GO AND GOT ON WITH THE REST OF MY LIFE.

 

THEN I GOT ANOTHER PACKAGE YES IT WAS ANOTHER BAR OF LIFEBUOY SOAP.  THIS PACKAGE WAS MAILED FROM CHANDLER, TEXAS AND IT HAD A NOTE IN IT ALSO.  IT SAID,

 

“HI, HERE IS ANOTHER OLD FRIEND OF YOURS.  ENJOY THE VISIT.”

 

I DIDN’T KNOW WHO MAILED THIS PACKAGE TO ME EITHER.  THIS IS REALLY BEGINNING TO BOTHER ME AGAIN AND JOHNNIE AND I WROTE “JOKERS ARE WILD.”

 

I GOT OUT OF THE SPECIAL HOSPITAL AND WAS DOING FINE WHEN I GOT ANOTHER PACKAGE.  BUT THIS PACKAGE HAD A RETURN ADDRESS ON IT.  THAT WAS THE PACKAGE WITH THE LIFEBUOY SOAP TIN BOX IN IT.  I WROTE RICHARD AND TOLD HIM HOW MUCH I APPRECIATED THE BOX AND PRAISED HIM FOR PUTTING HIS RETURN ADDRESS ON THE PACKAGE.

 

HE DIDN’T ANSWER MY LETTER AND THIS MADE ME CURIOUS SO I CALLED INFORMATION AND GOT HIS TELEPHONE NUMBER AND CALLED HIM.

 

WHEN I TALKED TO HIM I ASKED HIM WHERE HE HAD FOUND THE LIFEBUOY SOAP BOX?  HE TOLD ME THAT HE CLEANED OUT OLD HOUSES AND HE HAD FOUND IT IN AN OLD HOUSE.

 

I ASKED HIM WHERE HE HAD READ MY STORIES ABOUT LIFEBUOY SOAP AND WHAT PROMPTED HIM TO SEND ME THE BOX?

 

WAS I EVER SHOCKED WHEN HE TOLD ME HE HAD NEVER READ ANY OF MY STORIES AND DIDN’T KNOW ME FROM ADAM.  HE SAID HE HAD PUT THE BOX ON EBAY TO SELL IT AND THE PERSON THAT BOUGHT IT GAVE HIM INSTRUCTIONS TO MAIL IT TO ME.

 

“OK” I SAID, “WHO BOUGHT IT AND HAD YOU MAIL IT TO ME?”

 

“THEY MADE ME PROMISE NOT TO TELL YOU.  I GAVE MY WORD.”

THAT’S WHEN I WROTE THE STORY “IT JUST GETS DEEPER AND DEEPER.” 

TELLING ABOUT WHAT RICHARD SAID TO ME.  BUT I ALSO SAID IN THAT STORY I HAD A PLAN TO FIND OUTWHO BOUGHT THE LIFEBUOY BOX FOR ME.

SO I SENT AN EMAIL TO A DOZEN OF THE GIRLS AND I GOT BACK ANSWERS THAT THEY HAD BOUGHT THINGS

   
 

 FROM EBAY BUT THEY HADN’T BOUGHT A LIFEBUOY BOX.  BUT SEVERAL OF THEM SAID IF THEY HAD THEY WOULDN’T TELL ME.

 THAT’S WHEN I WROTE THE STORY “EXASPERATION, CONSTERNATION AND AGGRAVATION.”  I ENDED THAT STORY BY SAYING I HAD A PLAN.

 

WELL THIS IS THE PLAN, I WILL OFFER THE TITLE OF “SANTA OF SOAP” TO THE PERSON THAT CONFESSES TO BEING THE ONE THAT STARTED THIS WHOLE THING BY SENDING ME THAT FIRST BAR OF LIFEBUOY SOAP.  I WOULD WRITE A STORY TELLING ABOUT HIS/HER GENEROSITY IN REUNITING OLD FRIENDS AND IMMORTALIZE THEIR NAME ON THE INTERNET BY POSTING THE STORY ON EVERY SITE I COULD GET TO PUBLISH THE STORY.

 

NOW WHAT MORE COULD A PERSON ASK FOR?  IF THIS DOESN’T WORK I HAVE ANOTHER PLAN.  BUT THAT’S A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

 

 

 

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT 1999

 

   
 

             

 

 

 

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