Today is the day before Jon’s birthday.
The following conversation happened an hour ago.
Greg: I’m going to run some errands this afternoon.
Jon: Oh, cool. What do you need to do?
Greg: Just stuff.
Jon: Are you going to the grocery store? We need mouthwash.
Greg: Oh… uh, sure, I can go to the grocery store.
Jon: Oh! I mean, I can go later if you aren’t…
Greg: No, I can.
Jon: So what other stuff?
[pause]
Greg: It’s really tough to do surprises, when we spend the whole weekend together!
Jon: Oh! Oh, ok! Never mind, you don’t need to tell me.
Greg: Cool.
[pause]
Jon: Don’t get anything big, though.
Greg: What?
Jon: I mean, I was thinking we could just buy some new household stuff for each others’ birthdays.
Greg: Oh, I figured… I mean, you’re pretty picky, so I wasn’t going to just buy you something without you knowing. I was just going to get a card and some flowers. Then for presents, we can pick stuff out together later.
Jon: Perfect.
Greg: Cool.
[pause]
Jon: If you get flowers, don’t get a vase.
Greg: Ok?
Jon: We have so many vases already. We should just use a pre-existing vase.
Greg: Ok. No vase.
Jon: Plus, we don’t really have someplace to store another vase after the flowers die, there’s not really any room room in the back closet…
Greg: Yep. Got it. No vase.
The ironic twist at the end: After getting Listerine, shaving razors, and flowers (no vase) from the grocery store, I actually broke one of our pre-existing vases while I was trying to wash it… so now we have one fewer vases than we started with!
Just read the “Who is Greg Stevens?” entry. You are just some REALLY INTERESTING guy. The Corona guy has nothing on you! 😎
Thank you very much! What a great compliment. 😉
Oops…I meant the Dos Equis guy…got my Mexican beers mixed up
Love this!
Especially love the title!