When I was a young bride, dumb as a stump...my husband's aunt always made him a cherry pie for his birthday. It was yum. She gave it to him the first year we married and we ate it in record time. :) :)
I washed the plate and put it in the cabinet, really not thinking about it again. I do have manners but at the time, I was busy. *you know*...newly married?
Months passed and we went to a relative's of his funeral. At the cemetary, up comes his aunt. I said to her, "Hi Aunt *****!!"
She said to me, real loud and real mean..."do you know why your husband doesn't get cherry pies anymore for his birthday?"
I was intrigued since I hadn't given it another thought. "No, why?"
"BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T RETURN MY PIE PLATE!!!!!!!!!!!"
I was shocked...and I cried but since my husband was not in hearing, I decided to not tell him. She never spoke to me again. I just loved her too.
The Pyrex pie plate probably cost about $2.00 but that wasn't the point. I should have returned it but I was so busy "entertaining my new husband", I didn't.
Later I dreamed of sending a truck load of pie plates by the hundreds to her house and having them placed in her yard. I still dream of it but wouldn't you know it? She died. Drats!!! ;D