Valentine's Fun...

Sherry Grindeland used to write a column for the Seattle Times - sort of a date book/gossip column for the Eastside.  She was always on the lookout for interesting bits to write about...so I thought I'd help her out.  This is part of what Sherry wrote in her Valentine's Day column, February 14, 2004:

"Another view: Nan Slaughter doesn't expect flowers. She calls her husband, romantically challenged.

"I'll be lucky if I get the plastic rose with fake water on it, available only in finer gas stations," Nan Slaughter said. "He once told me those flowers last longer!"

She doesn't complain because this way she gets to buy her own rose, chocolates and lingerie.

"I get the color I want, the flavor I crave and the right size of flannels to snuggle in while I eat my chocolates and smell my roses. What more could a girl want?"

Slaughter agreed to share this story because she hopes it might inspire him to do more than buy one plastic rose.

She just hopes he doesn't go all out and buy a dozen fake ones."

On February 24, Sherry wrote the following:

"Eating crow: In my Valentine's Day column, Nan Slaughter described her husband as romantically challenged.

She joked that she would be lucky if her husband came home with a plastic rose from a gas station.

After giving me permission the day before Valentine's to share her story, Nan began having second thoughts. That Friday evening they passed through a card shop and her husband called her over to read a Valentine. She commented that it was cute.

"Good, now I don't have to buy you one," he said.

The next morning Nan clipped the column item from the paper, enclosed it in his card and gave it to him when he came home from work at 2 p.m. Saturday. He read the card, laughed at the romantically challenged and went into the garage. He returned carrying a new TV/VCR for Nan's workroom — something she had mentioned she wanted — plus a tulip plant and a card.

"I was flabbergasted," Nan said. "I then said, 'Wow, no plastic rose?' "

"No, my car didn't need gas," he said."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When my plastic roses with the fake water droplets are put into a water-filled vase with real greenery and a few sprigs of baby's breath they almost look real...each rose represents ONE Valentine day...as the mister likes to say, they'll last as long as his love for me...albeit in a landfill.  I detest plastic flowers...but over the years this growing bouquet has grown on me...so for a few weeks every February I have them out for all to see just how much the mister loves me!

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One year ago today:  Butterbean Soup With Curried Buttermilk

Comments

[IHateToast]

aw, he got you big time. what a good boy.

[foodbin]

happy valentine!

[colourdujour]

toooo funny! I'm LOL. "no my car didn't need gas today."

[RONDAClarke24]

Have no enough cash to buy a car? Worry not, because it is real to get the home loans to resolve such kind of problems. Thus take a consolidation loan to buy all you want.