Redemption

At the National Sports Collectors Convention of 2006 which was in Anaheim, CA, several of us bought wax to bust.
I bought a box of 2005-06 Upper Deck Rookie Update hockey. On the shuttle ride to LAX, I busted the box and found a dual auto redemption. Great I thought. I got home and that Tuesday I went on-line to redeem my card.
I waited.....

and I waited.......
At some point it became a joke. Whenever a bubble mailer arrived in my mailbox, the joke was thrown out there: "Is it the redemption?" We would laugh and open whatever the item was knowing it would not be the redemption that by now was all but a memory.
Well, I got the card in the mail. It arrived Sept. 5th, 2007. One year and 2 months after it was redeemed. I'm just glad it wasn't a Michael Vick redemption. A lot has happened in a year.