The little jellybean that couldn't...

I have always heard that “good things come to him(or her) who waits.” Sometimes that’s true (usually not). But this time it was…

This past Easter-time, Williams-Sonoma had some super-duper looking jelly beans for sale in their beautiful catalog, in 2lb. bags. There were four flavors…key lime, tangarine, lemon and pink grapefruit. Yum! But the price?! Gadzooks, you’d have to knock over a bank to be able to order those jellybeans… They were special made, somehow. I don’t remember what made them special, but after looking at the price, I knew they were special! Oh yes, they were…

I wanted those jellybeans. I really did. And somehow, I was going to have them, too. The dilemma was…the price. Two or three times I went online and filled out the cyber order form and then, just short of committing, I remembered who I was, and more importantly, how much money I didn’t have…so I deleted the form. It didn’t prevent me from thinking of ‘a them j’beans though. Yes, indeedy.

So I waited. Bided my time. Tried not to think of those 4 wonderful flavors of special confection-ry. Tried to forget the danged things and the missed opportunities for getting them. Oh well. Really, I shouldn’t be eating jellybeans anyway. Calories, don’t’cha know… Bad for the teeth for sure… Hadn’t I lectured the sonnys for years about things like this?

And then one day… A new Williams-Sonoma catalog arrived in the mail. Easter had been over for some time by then. And…in the ‘reduced for sale’ section of the catalog…my jellybean dream in the four-flavor, 2 lb. bag at half price! Whoopee! Although still not really what you’d call affordable, they were half price and at half price, getting within the realm of affordability. I wasn’t waiting any more.

The jelly bean frenzy was upon me and the time of rewarding my enduring patience was becoming more of a reality by the minute. I sat down, drew a deep breath, plucked my credit card from my dog-eared wallet and once again filled out the convenient online ordering form. To maximize the practicality of the set shipping fee, I ordered some other stuff too. The commitment was now engraved in virtual stone. The jelly beans, 4 pounds of ‘em (two 2 lb. bags for the price of one, not sooo bad), were almost mine. I began to drool…

Within a surprisingly short time I was tearing the newly delivered shipment apart and packing materials were going everywhere. Ah, gawd, they were beautiful. A 2 lb. bag of jelly beans is nicely hefty and two bags were heaven itself. Some people lift weights at the gym, I lift bags of jellybeans. They tasted good too…just the thing to ‘pop’ while reading, typing, rubber stamping…you name it. No mess. The only two problems being a really good hiding place and a good upset stomach remedy close at hand.

Within a short time after breaking into the second bag (I was a good girl and even gave some away…), a new Williams-Sonoma catalog came along. Hah…reduced in price again! Surely the gods are beaming on me… So I ordered another two 2 lb. bags of the gul-dang-est tastiest jellybeans to be consumed by me in at least the past 3 months.

I still have about 1/2 of a bag left. It won’t last long now and to tell you the truth, I’m getting kinda sick of jellybeans. Good thing too, Williams-Sonoma seem to be out of jellybeans. I haven’t seen any mention of them in the last two sales notifications I’ve received. The only trouble is…I dropped one of those little buggers a bit ago…and I just found it…squashed and adhering to one of the casters on my office chair. Boy, I hate jellybeans!