Christmas Jars 2-in-1 eBook Bundle by Jason F. Wright

Author:Jason F. Wright [Wright, Jason F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christmas
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2014-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

I saved all year and am so blessed to be able to do this. Will I do it again? Without a doubt. This has allowed me to reopen my heart.

—Kathy

Five

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In his hospital bed, Al crunched ice from a Dixie cup and stared across the room at the tiny television suspended from the ceiling. The dino-era television remote had an unpredictable demeanor he could relate to. It only worked about half the time; at the moment, it wasn’t.

Al’s nurse had become gradually grouchier as the afternoon became evening and the last thing he wanted—besides another date with the bedpan—was to see Nurse Jessica again. Unable to change the channel since her last visit to his third floor room, Al had been watching an infomercial for a groundbreaking men’s girdle that promised better fitting slacks and shorts. He was quickly running out of ice . . . and patience.

“Listen guys, trust me”—the announcer had a fake British accent that sometimes slipped into Australian—“your pants will feel like they were custom-made for your waist. Your shirts will drape differently, you’ll have the flat stomach you always wanted but couldn’t achieve even with sit-ups, crunches, or those disgusting diets. Plus, the patent-pending Flab Strap doesn’t just pull in the flab and seal your tummy in place, it also burns fat by raising your core body temperature with our revolutionary heat strips sewn right into the fabric.”

If it didn’t end soon, Al was prepared to throw things at the tiny power button on the front of the television until it either powered off or the set fell to the floor and shattered.

He turned away from the TV and noticed a nurse passing down the hallway holding hands with a young girl in a hospital gown who looked remarkably like his sidewalk heroine.

Suddenly the Australian-Brit’s voice rose to a near shout. “Men, call right now. Don’t wait another second. And women, yes, women, you too, pick one up for your sweetheart who’s let himself go. Call in the next ten minutes for your Flab Strap and I’ll throw in a second Flab Strap, and I’ll ship it for free, and . . .” The pitchman’s voice rose as he stretched his hands out toward the camera with his index fingers extended and pointed at his eager viewers.

“Wait for it . . .” Al said to the television.

“There’s more!”

Al pushed the nurses’ button. “Nurse? Please, any nurse.”

A moment later Nurse Jessica appeared in the doorway. “Everything OK?”

“Could you change the channel for me? Anything but this.”

She stood next to the television and quickly flipped through the hospital’s eleven channels. “See anything you like?” She didn’t work very hard to mask her impatience.

“One more time. Wait! What was that on channel thirteen?”

She pushed the up arrow until the channel indicator read “13” and on screen a middle-aged man with a goatee was sitting beside a pool being interviewed. A graphic at the bottom read “Matt B., Farmington, Utah.”

“I don’t want to exaggerate,” the man said thoughtfully, “but the Flab Strap has changed my life.

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