A week ago Mark and I made a quick trip to Aldi. As we were standing in the checkout line, there was a young couple immediately ahead of us. The girl looked over at the fresh flower bouquets right next to the checkout aisle and the conversation proceeded like this:
Girl: Oh, honey, those are really pretty flowers. You could buy me flowers.
Guy: I thought you didn’t like flowers.
Girl: I like those flowers.
Guy: Why are those flowers different?
Jill: What she means is that she doesn’t like flowers that cost $20 or $30. But those flowers are $2.99 so she likes them because they’re pretty and they’re not expensive.
Girl: (with a big smile on her face) That’s right! That’s why I like those flowers.
Mark: It’s important to learn those things in marriage: why some flowers are ok and some flowers aren’t. There’s lots of things like that you need to know.
Guy: (to Mark) Teach me, man. I’ve got so much to learn.
Mark: It’s a lifelong journey, my son…a lifelong journey.
I love it! Thank you for the laugh this morning. I really needed it. My husband would agree 100%! (Although he probably still wouldn’t have bought the flowers)
Have a great day Jill.
Wow – mentoring in the Aldi checkou line – I ‘m heading there today, I wonder what I’ll learn. 🙂
You are right – it did make me smile!
It is definitely a lifelong journey thats for sure! My husband and I had issues with flowers awhile back. See I am frugal minded and I don’t want him spending $50 on a huge bouquet of exotic flowers… But I do have taste preferences. However, to my husband flowers are flowers so he bought the cheapest ones he could find (which were kind of ugly and to me screamed “CHEAP”. I appreciated the gesture and thanked him for thinking of me. So, he continued to buy the awful flowers that I hated and what was meant to be a kindness became something that did not make me feel loved and appreciated anymore. Maybe I’m silly, but I felt like he didn’t care about my desires because he didn’t pick up my hints on the flowers I preferred (that weren’t necessarily more expensive). Finally, after months (uummm… maybe years) of this I finally told him how I’d been feeling. It was not a good conversation. He doesn’t buy me flowers as much as he used to but when he does its ones that I love. I wish I would have been honest with him right off the bat instead of trying to protect his pride and ending up hurting him far worse later. I guess its all part of the lifelong process.
I needed a good laugh this morning and this was perfect. I love it! There are a lot of things that you must learn during your marriage about each other to keep it working. I’ve been married 7 years and I don’t think we’ll ever learn everything!! But I guess thats the adventure!
so did the guy buy the flowers!?????
So cute, so true!
I just finished I’m Glad I’m a Mom! The book was a sweet blessing. Thank you!