With that frying pan - I think it was adding insult to injury to get it 2 months later....like, I didn't forget your birthday, I just didn't care enough to exert effort to do something for you on or around the actual date...THEN, 2 month later you remind her that you didn't care and top it off by phoning in with a frying pan (not bad on a birthday, but not hot as an I am sorry I waited so long to get you this gift)?
Just a woman's take. It might have be funny if you were getting along at the time. My H was ocassionally awesome at gifts, but usually terrible...he's been very focused lately on doing better and it means a lot to me.
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. --Stanislaw Lem