the moral of this story is to not gamble on your wife’s birthday. he can write all the stories about it in Forbes that he wants to, but it suicidal to not have a ROCK SOLID plan A as well as a plan B for your wife’s birthday present.
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He probably would get upset if you pointed that out.
That’s a good general rule - I always assume that something can go wrong, and try to get things done with some leeway. But I don’t think it’s ‘suicidal’ if a package doesn’t arrive in time for the Big Day ;-)
Once my husband had my Christmas gifts sent to his office, and the delivery got all screwed up. He felt terrible; and I felt bad about him feeling terrible, NOT about the gift being late - and most women would react the same way.