a tale of the cookie jar

Once when visiting my aunt D in Tennessee, she told me this true but tragic story that happened to her.

Whilst staying with her I noticed one day a rather ugly hideous looking "Sponge-Bob square pants" cookie jar resting upon her counter. "Why do you have such a jar auntie" I asked her. She replied with this story:

"A friend of mine was getting married and had registered at Target. I went there to see what sort of items she had placed on her wish list. To my great surprise she had a "Sponge-Bob square pants" cookie jar amid the other items. At first I could not believe that she would want such a thing but for laughs I decided to purchase one. At the bridal shower I sat thinking of the wonderful laughs that we would share. Whilst opening her first gift she started telling a story about her trip to Target to register "My fiancee and I were having trouble setting up our account so we asked one of the guy's there to help us. While demonstrating the process he chose this hideous Sponge-Bob square pants" cookie jar, much to mine and my fiancee's disapproval. He assured us that he would delete it. After placing our items on the list, we found that we could not; nor the man delete the horrid thing."
As she was talking I shrunk down in my chair.

In the end my auntie kept the ugly thing as she had torn the tag off and lost the reciept. Poor thing, hmmmm; can you say yard sale? Thrift store?

-Bethany. written and adapted by Kressant