"There's, uh... there's a couple things here, and I don't actually know if you'll like either of them, but I... Okay, never mind, starting over with no disclaimers. That's a shitty way to give a birthday present."
He holds out the presents, both of which are square and fairly flat. "I guess you should probably open the bigger one first. I mean, normally you open the card first, but the card is kinda a present in it of itself." It's hard not to be nervous about Ned unwrapping the presents -- although really, getting rid of the terrible wrapping job'll be a relief, because they hadn't had wrapping paper in the office, and he'd been stuck using newspaper, which, in his opinion, looks terrible.
When Ned unwraps the bigger present, he'll find that it's a full color ad for the Pie Hole, all bright colors and eye-catching images. Immediately, he feels the need to explain himself, so he does. "I just noticed that you didn't have a whole lot of advertising for the place, and maybe it's kind of stupid to just give you a present of something that I'm pretty good at doing, but I thought that maybe if you liked it, the ad could get displayed somewhere, and there'd be more business, and that'd probably be pretty good, right?"
If he were any more nervous, he'd probably be comically wringing his hands together. He's especially nervous about the 'card,' which, when Ned unwraps it, will be revealed to not really be a card at all, but rather a little book. If Ned flips through the pages, he'll realize that there're little drawings on the corners of each pages -- it's meant to be a flip book, and for someone who says he can't particularly draw, the cartoons he's doodled there aren't half bad. The pictures depict Ned baking a pie, looking delighted, with Digby frolicking in the background. At the very end, there's a little doodle of Ginsberg himself, with little hearts for eyes, looking enamored at the cartoon version of Ned, and thinking "Happy birthday to the sexiest piemaker ever."
Sure, it's a little cheesy, but he'd had fun making it. In fact, he'd had fun making both of Ned's presents.
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He holds out the presents, both of which are square and fairly flat. "I guess you should probably open the bigger one first. I mean, normally you open the card first, but the card is kinda a present in it of itself." It's hard not to be nervous about Ned unwrapping the presents -- although really, getting rid of the terrible wrapping job'll be a relief, because they hadn't had wrapping paper in the office, and he'd been stuck using newspaper, which, in his opinion, looks terrible.
When Ned unwraps the bigger present, he'll find that it's a full color ad for the Pie Hole, all bright colors and eye-catching images. Immediately, he feels the need to explain himself, so he does. "I just noticed that you didn't have a whole lot of advertising for the place, and maybe it's kind of stupid to just give you a present of something that I'm pretty good at doing, but I thought that maybe if you liked it, the ad could get displayed somewhere, and there'd be more business, and that'd probably be pretty good, right?"
If he were any more nervous, he'd probably be comically wringing his hands together. He's especially nervous about the 'card,' which, when Ned unwraps it, will be revealed to not really be a card at all, but rather a little book. If Ned flips through the pages, he'll realize that there're little drawings on the corners of each pages -- it's meant to be a flip book, and for someone who says he can't particularly draw, the cartoons he's doodled there aren't half bad. The pictures depict Ned baking a pie, looking delighted, with Digby frolicking in the background. At the very end, there's a little doodle of Ginsberg himself, with little hearts for eyes, looking enamored at the cartoon version of Ned, and thinking "Happy birthday to the sexiest piemaker ever."
Sure, it's a little cheesy, but he'd had fun making it. In fact, he'd had fun making both of Ned's presents.