Every time I came back from trip, my son would ask "Daddy! What's in the bag?" I would say "nothing, just some stuffs from work". Talking about delayed gratification. He would hug me still with his happy face, most satisfying for me. "Do you miss your son?" colleagues asked, "not at all coz I get better sleep during business trips". Not true :)
So I got him this 1952 Volkswagen Beetle this time from Tokyo. I did make him wait, so he tidied up everything and right before he went to sleep I showed him the package. He knew he couldn't unwrap until the next day, so he waited. The next day he came back from school while I was having a day off and I unveiled the Beetle. "Out of all cars I bought from you from various cities, which one you like most?" "I like this most!" And we pulled all the cars I got him from trips and made this picture, the rest of the dozens of cars he got from other people were nothing at all. These are the treasures, to me and to him. Someday, they will be sitting in a box he will forget, until one day he will pull them all out and remember his childhood so vividly.
