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Fishing Creel gift basket

by Ashley Cotter-Cairns
(UNOB HQ)

Fishing Creel gift basket
(Amazon)

Men. Obsessive creatures. "The one that got away" is a constant companion in the long, dark hours between midnight and dawn.

Most women think this refers to a fish. They imagine that, simply because a man spends all his free time fiddling with rods and bait down by the river, he must be really "into" fishing.

Not so. He's using this me-time to obsess about the one that got away.

This is usually a redhead he dated for a couple of weeks in college, last seen in an awkward two-minute conversation at a gas station (while she was pumping premium into her convertible Ferrari and he was pumping unleaded into your Ford Taurus); a conversation the man has replayed in his head twice a day ever since.

So when he looks at you with his dead eyes and thanks you for this Fishing Creel gift basket, smile back and find an obsession of your own. It's only fair, after all.