Need advice from you guys.........unobtainable glove or divorce??
Okay, it’s nothing serious, I’m happily married, most days. Here’s my situation, we have a couple at our church, this guy works for a Japanese company, several years back he went to Tokyo for several months for work and absolutely fell in love with it over there!
There’s a start up church just outside of Tokyo that our church helps sponsor, and this couple’s 25th wedding anniversary was coming up so the husband decided to go help this church for a couple of weeks, celebrate their anniversary, and go Japanese sight seeing.
Here’s the cool part of this story.....at least to me, it’s glove related . They have a rail pass, they’re traveling everywhere by train. I contacted this guy, and BTW, I know this guy very well, great guy and great couple! Anyway I contacted this guy and was telling him about one of two Kubota Slugger stores right outside of Tokyo, he looked it up and said “yeah, we’ve already got a scheduled trip to that town next week! WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS?
Brain gears are smoking at this point......then he says, you want me to pick you up a glove?? Oh Lord my wife will kill me if I buy a $700 / $800 glove! Which with a little research, that number is close! What would you do? These gloves are expensive, hard to get, and this opportunity, with a buddy walking in a store in Japan, and walking out with a Kubota Slugger in hand will probably never happen again!
BUT........the downside is, Japanese patterns are weird / strange at best, they love very small gloves. And the thought of spending that kind of money on a glove I can’t put my hand in is a little hard to swallow, plus I could buy 3.5 Rawlings Horween exclusives, or 2.5 Rawlings customs that (I) designed myself for that amount of money!
But man these gloves are beautiful, rare, well somewhat rare here, and the quality is supposed to be super high! Decisions decisions?? Help a board brother out with the smart, logical thing to do!
Okay, it’s nothing serious, I’m happily married, most days. Here’s my situation, we have a couple at our church, this guy works for a Japanese company, several years back he went to Tokyo for several months for work and absolutely fell in love with it over there!
There’s a start up church just outside of Tokyo that our church helps sponsor, and this couple’s 25th wedding anniversary was coming up so the husband decided to go help this church for a couple of weeks, celebrate their anniversary, and go Japanese sight seeing.
Here’s the cool part of this story.....at least to me, it’s glove related . They have a rail pass, they’re traveling everywhere by train. I contacted this guy, and BTW, I know this guy very well, great guy and great couple! Anyway I contacted this guy and was telling him about one of two Kubota Slugger stores right outside of Tokyo, he looked it up and said “yeah, we’ve already got a scheduled trip to that town next week! WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS?
Brain gears are smoking at this point......then he says, you want me to pick you up a glove?? Oh Lord my wife will kill me if I buy a $700 / $800 glove! Which with a little research, that number is close! What would you do? These gloves are expensive, hard to get, and this opportunity, with a buddy walking in a store in Japan, and walking out with a Kubota Slugger in hand will probably never happen again!
BUT........the downside is, Japanese patterns are weird / strange at best, they love very small gloves. And the thought of spending that kind of money on a glove I can’t put my hand in is a little hard to swallow, plus I could buy 3.5 Rawlings Horween exclusives, or 2.5 Rawlings customs that (I) designed myself for that amount of money!
But man these gloves are beautiful, rare, well somewhat rare here, and the quality is supposed to be super high! Decisions decisions?? Help a board brother out with the smart, logical thing to do!
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