My Valentine's Punishment

In honor of Valentine's Day,
I have a little story for you.
Get a Kleenex...it's a sad, little story.

Last year it seemed tragic,
but this year I can reflect on it
without weeping.

You see, it isn't all that often that
I get flowers from my husband.

Being the tightwad, thrifty person that I am,
years ago, I made the mistake
of commenting about how expensive
the bouquet of flowers were that he
bought me and he decided to never
make that mistake again.
I haven't received a bouquet of flowers since.

But last year, he bought me ONE
single stem red rose.
Yes, a dozen would have been lovely,
but believe, me I shut my mouth
and was overjoyed that he bought me a flower.

We had both been at our son's basketball
game until late that evening, and
drove separately to the game,
so before we left the parking lot to go home,
he came over to my van and
handed me one beautiful red rose.
Overjoyed, I gently placed it on the
dashboard of my van, planning
to put it in a vase, and place it in my
kitchen window when I got home.

What happened next is still
a bit of a blur in my mind.
All I remember is braking at a
stop light, and in slow motion,
watching that lovely red rose
fall to the floor of the van.

Not only did it fall to the floor,
it ricocheted off of the
cup holder and the edge of my
seat before it hit the floor.

I screamed to my daughter to retrieve
my lovely red rose,
so I wouldn't crash the van trying to get it.

She leaned over,
picked it up by the stem...
{here's the tragic part}, and
e.v.e.r.y
s.i.n.g.l.e
b.l.e.s.s.e.d
petal fell off of that stem.
Not one single petal remained.

I felt I was being punished
for that ONE stupid comment
I made about the price of roses
so many years before.

Knowing I would
never,
ever,
ever,
in this lifetime,
get another flower from
my husband again if he
learned the fate of the flower he bought me,
I did what any flower-starved wife would
do at 9:30 at night on Valentine's Day.

I went to a gas station
and paid FIVE (yes FIVE) dollars
to buy myself another red rose
that I could take home
and lovingly put in a vase
to display at my window...
so my husband would never know of my folly.

Every tightwad bone in my body
was in agony, but I handed that
5 bucks to the cashier and was
just relieved they still had
any red roses left at 9:30 at
night on Valentine's Day.

My daughter never ratted on me.
I think perhaps I may have
threatened her with bodily harm...just a tad,
if she told her father.

So, where did all these lovely flowers come
from that you've been seeing in this post?
My beloved husband?

Okay, I'm gonna be honest.
THESE flowers did not come
from my husband.

They came from my good friend.
Not only did my friend give them
to me, but she gave them to
me as a gift on New Year's Eve
when she came to my house to celebrate.

Knowing I probably would not
get a bouquet of flowers for
Valentine's Day, I figured I
better photograph the heck out
of these flowers so I'd have
something beautiful to put in today's post.

Even after the flowers died,
I photographed the petals,
as a memorial to all those petals that
ended up on the floor of my van last year.

If you think this story is sad
and pathetic...it gets worse.

I actually already received my
Valentine's Day gift last week from my husband.
He bought me a new electric blanket,
because my old one gave out
and I need the temperature of my side of the
bed to be at least 85 degrees
or I'll put my cold toes on his legs to get warm.

{here's where more tragedy occurs}

About 3 days after giving it to me,
I laid down for an afternoon nap
and allowed our little min pin dog
to snuggle up under the blanket with me.

The next night when I went to bed,
the electric blanket wouldn't turn on.
I had no idea why and didn't want
to wake my husband, so
I suffered in the cold that night.

The next day,
my daughter was making my bed
{she earns a whoppin' quarter for that}
and she discovered that
one of the electric cords was sticking out of my blanket.

It had been chewed on and ruined.
Another Valentine's gift...destroyed.

I think I've been punished enough
for my stupid comment so many
years ago, don't you?

I hope you all have a
Happy Valentine's Day,
and you are smart enough
to not comment on the insane
price of fresh-cut flowers!

And honey,
if you are reading this,
I hope enough time has passed,
that you'll find this story amusing,
even though I never told you.
Please don't withhold future flowers
from me, thinking I will mistreat
them or say something stupid about them.

I promise the only thing I'll say is,
"They are beautiful, honey - I love them...and you."


Blessings,

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