The title of this blog should actually be: what to wear to dinner when you have to take your neighbors out after you accidently threw away their mail when they were on vacation OR commonly known as What to Wear to Dinner. Yes it happened to me. After years of having neighbors who made you run and hide every time they even came near your door and neighbors you just didn't have to make a good impression on because they are related to you, my fiancé volunteered to do the neighborly thing. He offered to collect our new neighbors mail while they were vacationing in Nantucket for a week. And guess who accidently threw it away? Yes Smashonistas ME. Now as luck would have it our new neighbors are not of the recyclable, renewable, sustainable bunch who subscribe to paperless billing. Oh no they get all their bills mailed to them. Oh wanting to crawl under a rock, wanting it to be yesterday, the neighbor gingerly approaches our door after his return, requesting his mail. We made up some excuse saying we would be right over to deliver it. Three hours of water works later, back tracing my steps and promising my first born to God, their mail was not to be found anywhere. ANYWHERE. I finally realized that the small shopping bag with the ends tied in a knot on top of the fireplace mantel was not trash at all. No, it was actually where my fiancé had been SAFELY keeping the neighbors' mail for the past week. I guess I was suppose to read his mind and know that OR at the very least do what every other reasonable person in the world would do and open the contents of the bag to check what's inside before sending it to trash heaven. So we apologized to our poor victims offering up an olive branch and invited them to a fancy dinner. And what did I wear to this little amends making affair? (Because as a Smashonista that's what's important) A cute little navy dress, some strappy cognac sandals and a clutch with brass hardware. So lesson #1: Never let my fiancé volunteer to collect the neighbors mail. And lesson #2: nothing like fantastic fashion, fine food and some tasty cocktails to make it ALL better. If you are my neighbor reading this (Anne).....you've been warned. If we offer to collect your mail...... for your sake and our sake just say no.
