Undecided
The young man ahead of my father at the flower shop was taking an unusually long time to place his order.
When the clerk asked how she could help, he explained that his girlfriend was turning 19 and he couldn’t decide whether to give her a dozen roses or 19 roses — one for each year of her life.
The woman put aside her business judgment and advised, “She may be your 19-year-old girlfriend now, but someday she could be your 50-year-old wife.”
The young man bought a dozen roses.
“Fore!”
My five-year-old nephew wanted to caddy for my brother’s golf game. “You have to count my strokes,” my brother told him. “How much is six plus nine plus eight?”
“Five,” answered the nephew.
“Okay,” my brother said, “let’s go.”
“A Long Walk”
One day after a nasty streak of bad weather, I asked my teenage son to take our dog for a long walk after school.
When I came home from work, I found my son stretched out on the recliner, watching television.
He had leash in hand while the dog trotted happily away on the treadmill.
