Story Behind Items in a Box Final

Story in a box

    There was this boy growing up in a small town in Minnesota who had big dreams of traveling the world when he graduated high school. His parents were so proud that he was going to broaden his horizons and escape the family tradition of settling down as a small town farmer.
    So the now young man decided he’d use his exceptional skill as a welder and go find a job in New York City until he had enough money to finance his voyage across the world. Despite his ambitions and all of boasting he happened to be content with all the vastness and cultural differences that were in the big city. To add to this change of perspective he happened to find a woman he fell hard for and had the intentions of settling down with. Now the problem this once small town boy from Minnesota has to face his either telling his parents the disappointing truth or find a way to beat around the bush.
    The young man hates being a disappointment to his family and has no problem telling a few white lies to maintain fame within his family. So he had to find a way to deceive his parents into thinking he had many great adventures in his travels.
    So after a long days work doing what he loves he stumbles on a very cultural diverse flea market and comes up with a cunning plan. With all the amazing artifacts within the tents he chooses the ones that he can relate to his adventures back at home on the farm.
    He finds an old tribal miniature replica style canoe that he said he got from an old Indian Woman on a reservation in New Mexico. This item was an easy choice for him because he and his father often went on early morning canoe trips during his childhood.
    Following that a statue of an African Woman caught the corner of his eye. He thought this would be perfect because his little sister was always fascinated with the cultural ways of African tribes. He then continued to make up a story how he stumbled upon a tribe when he was traveling in Africa.
    Shortly after seeing the statue of the African Woman he say cheaper wallet that had a picture of an elephant and other various African animals on the front. So he just made a little joke as to how poor he was and this was the only souvenir he could afford to send back at the time. One he picked up at a supermarket in southern Africa.
    Then he say a statue of a little drummer boy. He thought this would be great because it was one of his family's favorite Christmas song and this statue was fitting cause he was dressed up as if he was a fellow Minnesotan. He then went on to talk about how he found this trinket in South America and told a few other stories of his adventures down there.
    He then caught a glimmer off a little statue of a bald man. He chuckled to himself a little and remembered when he was swimming high school and he had his parent’s bic his head before a big swim meet. So he explained how he got this during his travels in Europe when he engaged in conversation with an older German carving this out of wood on his stoop.
    Then he noticed hanging from the rafters was an older blanket of some sorts. He figured it could some traditional family heir loom. So coincidently he got this from an older woman on his travels to India. This happened to be his father’s favorite type of food.
    Also right below the blanket he spotted a replica of a small Mexican house with a donkey in the front yard. He thought it was perfect because it reminded him of how his mother always talked about taking a trip to Mexico that is apparently still on delay. So in his description he said that we'll have to make together someday! It was amazing.
    Next he found what looked like three erotic seeds. His father was always a garden "nut" himself so he figured what could be more perfect to throw in this box. Doubting these seeds would do produce anything if planted he threw in a ruler as well saying if you don't plant them at a very specific depth odds are they won't grow.
    As the box was approaching full he noticed from a glimmer off in the distance a small colorful corked vase. He realized this would fit the decor in his mother’s living room just perfectly so he had to make some extra room in the box for this item. He chuckles to himself as he's holding the vase and thinks to himself, "I clearly got this item in a very neat little pottery house not far from the little house in Mexico where he stayed during his travels." Now the box was complete so all that was left was to send it on its merry way to small town Minnesota.
    Eventually the box made it to his family in MN and they were all ecstatic to say the least. Although from one giant lie, such as this, strung many more lies to come. This small town boy just couldn't bare the thought of disappointing his family but maybe he thought a little honesty would have saved him a lot of heartache.