You see above a customer holding two bic pens with knit rabbit pen toppers. The one with the small green dinosaur ring around its neck just returned to Joie de Vivre after a mysterious and up to now inexplicable disappearance. We get very attached to small things at Joie. Previously, we used little devil duckie pen toppers; we were selling them, they were cute, and not incidentally, having pen toppers is an excellent way to keep one person in particular (okay - it's me) from chewing away the tops of all the pens - a bad habit I developed in my youth. The little devil duck toppers were discontinued awhile ago and slowly all of ours disappeared. As anyone with any life experience knows, pens do disappear, along with socks and keys and . . anyway, we started out with three rabbits and one went missing long ago. Just after Christmas this year we realized we were down to one. After a week or two, we resigned ourselves to its loss. Several months later, last Friday night, to be exact, I was invited to a Trivia night to benefit the Arlington Children's Theatre. I would be sitting at a table with among others, four people who work very part time here during the crazy holiday season. (those among you with detective skills are doubtless saying aha!) When we were paying our share for the table, one person took out her checkbook - and the pen on the left. I snatched it out of her hand instantly. She laughed. "I've been meaning to bring this back for the longest time," she told me. It may sound ridiculous, but when I texted this photo to the two current Joie de Vivre employees - I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say they were thrilled. (employees, correct me if I'm wrong.) So, the lost bunny story has a happy ending, and we will try to keep a better eye on our pens, at least for awhile.
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