I’m The $300 Fork On Your Friend’s Wedding Registry, And Looks Like You’re Stuck With Me

Rachel Reyes
Slackjaw
Published in
3 min readSep 4, 2021

Image by Rachel Reyes

So you waited until the last minute to buy your friend a wedding gift, huh? Bet you regret that now, sucker. Everyone else snapped up the reasonably priced registry items long ago, and now, the day before the wedding, all that’s left is me — the $300 fork. Guess you’re not eating this month!

Rachel Reyes
Slackjaw

Rachel Reyes’s humor writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Points in Case, Slackjaw, and elsewhere. Check out her work at rachelnreyes.com.