It's the Gift Receipt That Counts

Someone once told me, "It's the gift receipt that counts," jokingly. I laughed at the thought of how rude and sarcastic as well as true that was. For the gifts we embarrassingly hate to admit that we hate, we usually think, "oh, it's the thought that counts..." If they want it to really count, they'd leave the receipt just incase their assumptions aren't as expected. In a way, this phrase means more to me than just a return policy on paper. If we have a friend and loose a friend, what do we do? We look back on how we were friends, what we did, how it ended, and what we can learn from it to get a new one. So what really counted in the friendship was the receipt; to look over and use to exchange for something or someone new.