Surprise!...It's Old News

Flashback: After the success that was The Announcement, we thought it would be fun to do the same with The Pod's sister, "Big". ("Big" is short for Big Sister, whereas The Pod is Little Sister.) So we set up for the following Saturday after The Announcement to meet up with her and Mr. Rentz (a.k.a. "Boompah", from Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation) at her place in Brooklyn for a casual lunch. That got canceled when Boompah wasn't feeling well, so we rescheduled for the next weekend.

The time finally came, we got to Brooklyn, and Big mentioned that she baked a red velvet cake. This is exciting, because we like cake.

The Pod: "Can I see it?"
Big: "No."

Well, okay. Never mind then. Anyway, Boompah arrived soon after, and we finally sat them down and went through our elaborate ruse, brought out the wrapped "Aunt Big" and "Boompah" frames, and here's how it went.



All well and good...but not the end of the story: after "Aunt Big" had calmed down, she disappeared into her bedroom and produced gifts for *us*. (What, did you have these things for us in a "In Case of Pregnancy, Break Glass" box?)

And then she dropped the bomb: "I already knew."

WHAT?

At the time, Big was seeing a Filipino guy, and The Pod had in the back of her mind, maybe through the Filipino Network, she might find out before we could tell her. We laughed it off - contrary to popular belief, not every Filipino knows each other. The Filipino Network is an urban legend! She would not find out through the Filipino Network. Ha ha!

Then she did. Here's how it happened:

1. Big, on a date with said Filipino at a coffee shop, needed help with something online.
2. Filipino guy fixes online problem in 5 minutes. Them having paid for 60 minutes, he shows her his MySpace page to pass the time.
3. Somehow in the deep synapses of her brain, she remembers I have a MySpace page. And they find it. And find The Announcement. One click later, surprise ruined.

She almost called us right then, but she figured we wanted to spring the news on her in person, so she waited it out. Big's never been on MySpace in her entire life, and the one time she is, she finds out she's going to be an aunt?

Flash forward back to lunch, and Big brought out the red velvet cake that was previously classified information.

On the icing it said "CONGRATULATIONS".