Where Do You Keep Your Machetes?

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Always searching for beautiful in the most unlikely places, we offer you the opportunity to see beautiful in a machete. Here's how we're slicing it:

Setting: A See Beautifuler walks into a sporting goods store and approaches a sales rep to help her locate an anniversary present for her partner. 

See Beautifuler: Yes, I was hoping you could tell me if you have a specific item in stock.

Sales Rep: Okay, sweetheart, what are you looking for?

See Beautifuler (cringing at the sweetheart-dubbed name she's been given): I need to know if you have a machete in stock. Preferably the Bear Grylls extra large machete with the leather holding case that adheres to one's back.

Sales Rep (color draining from his face): Um. Well, you don't, um, look like you're the type who'd be in here buying a, um, machete.


See Beautifuler (now having the time of her life): Yes. I'm an avid machete-ist and I'm expanding my collection. If you could just point me toward your machete's I'll be on my way.

Sales Rep (backing away from "sweetheart"): Um, well, yes. We have those in the hunting department. Um, it's, um, upstairs, um...

See Beautifuler (beaming): Thanks, I'll just head in that direction.

Sweetheart and Man-Scared-of-Sweetheart part ways. 

See Beautifuler buys machete, but hasn't decided whether to share it with her husband or wear it herself everywhere she goes. Any thoughts?

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We imagine there are lots of ways you can see beautiful in this story, but we thought we'd share a few. Of course, we'd love for you to add your own comments below though:

1. Women rock.
2. Men think they know women, and then we surprise them with our strength (this is a constant cycle).
3. Calling a woman you don't know "sweetheart" can be nullified by responding, "Where do you keep your machetes?"
4. Never judge a woman. Never judge anyone for that matter.
5. Machetes rock.

P.S. Someone long ago decided a six-year wedding anniversary gift is supposed to be iron or candy. We here at See Beautiful™ don't really understand a stranger telling us how to celebrate a relationship with a loved one, let alone what that gift should entail, so we mock the system and buy machetes to fit the "iron" category...that makes us sweet, like candy, right? No?

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