Need some help
Yeah, so my wife's birthday is tomorrow and I figured I'd pick up some flowers for her...among other items...she wants a McDonald's salad for one, Southwest Ranch (I'll get that tomorrow)...and so I had other things to get and I just got back. I stopped at Sleeman's where I bought her flowers before...go in...they always have stuff Ready-To-Go, right? Nice display of bright flowers, various hues. This one arrangement caught my eye, white vase, purple ribbon, pink roses, a few other species of flowers that look pretty. I make the obligatory pass around the display so as I don't miss out on one better, right? Lady swings by, can I help you? I tell her, yeah, I think I'll get this one...pick it up...she asks me if I know how it works.
That should have set off bells. But it did not. She takes it from me and turns it and points to this thingy sticking in...I figure, yeah, okay, that's where you water it, right? Dual purpose maybe, as she plugs it into the base and I nod. Clueless. Then...she pops off the base there and plugs the watering-point into that and she says you can use it like that...and it begins to dawn on me that these are for dead people. But hey! They're pretty. Living people ought to be able to enjoy them, too. Right? I'm thinking frost and all, thinking, well I can lose the vase...we got extras at home from times before. Or, use that vase...nice and white.
The lady is trying to wrestle the watering-spigot-spigot point off the bottom...hands it to me...I perform. Still clueless. We go to the checkout and I pay up, thank you have a nice day and I head out. As I'm setting the flowers on the floor I realize they are . Sheesh! What do I do now?
Should I give them to the wife, anyway? Should I lose the cemetery vase? And put them in another? Or do I go out and find a random grave and plant them? I dunno...they looked real, is my defense. Just my luck that my wife's birthday happens to fall on the weekend where people are visiting graves. Maybe if I got a few real flowers to mix into the arrangement? Any ideas?
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Originally Posted by Spideyman
...my experience, I'd lose 'em and start from scratch, or ya know, you knowin' her and all, would she appreciate the future anecdotal possibilities, I mean that right there could be worth the price of admission...well yeah okay, probably hafta wait a tad more down the road in the, 'It'll Be A Swell Anecdote One day Dept.', but just think of the fun filled future
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...I always wanted to buy the ever lovely, and mostly only insane during months with the letter "R", Mrs. ExPatInTheHat, a small quite heavenly slice of her own personal real estate but she kept lookin' at me kinda funny..um, I mean I'd already had mine, y'all probably figured that's what I meant, right?...right
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