12/20/05 Grif.Net - Cheap Gift
Dr Bob Griffin
Malfunctioning warning light, but better to be safe, eh? By the time she got
to Denver (9 pm) the last flight to Casper had left and she waited in
customer service (oxymoron?) until 11 pm and they think they can route her
around to Salt Lake, etc etc and eventually Casper sometime in the morning
before her load of patients begins at noon. Grrrr.
Okay, so thought it would be nice to give Teresa a little early Christmas
gift with all her struggles just to get back home. So I headed to a store
open late because of the Christmas shoppers.
"How about some perfume?" I asked the cosmetics clerk. She showed me a
bottle of Obsession (Teresa's favorite) costing $75.
"That's a bit much," I said, so she returned with a smaller bottle, this
time Wind Song, for $45.
"That's still quite a bit more than I wanted to pay," I groused.
Growing disgusted, the clerk brought out a tiny $25 bottle of some "generic"
perfume I didn't recognize.
I grew agitated, "What I mean," I reiterated, "is I'd like to see something
real cheap."
So the clerk handed me a mirror and we both laughed.
(Okay, maybe I embellished a little, but my poor wife is stuck in a horror
story and there is nothing I can do so many miles away. And I ended up
getting her flowers.)
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Dr Bob
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