“One flower?”
she said “one single flower? Did you steal it from someone’s garden on the way
here?” I told her that it was not just any old flower, it was a gerbera and they
are quite expensive. Not just that, a single gerbera in a specimen jar is I’m told,
the happening coffee table adornment these days.
“What was that about flowers and honey?” she asked. I told her
that it was a quote I’d read whilst doing some research for my writers prompt
site Carry On Tuesday. I told her it was penned by Victor Hugo back in the 1800’s.
I should explain that at the time I was still standing streetwise of her door
waiting for an invitation to enter. Well, she suddenly closed the door in my
face and yelled at me to shout “knock knock”. As those of you who follow Rosey’s
antics know, she is the self-appointed queen of knock- knock jokes. The
funniest thing is that invariably she doesn’t get the one she tells us herself!
Anyway I went along with it. “Knock knock” I shouted. “Who goes there?” she
called back. Realising what she was doing, I played along if only to gain
access to the inside of her apartment as I was dying to use the toilet! “Yes Hugo is here" I shouted. With that the door
opened and a grinning Rosey said “Vincent!” Well, I didn’t bother to correct her; knowing
Rosey she deliberately got the name wrong thinking it would improve her joke!
I didn’t tell you why I was calling on her, gifts in hand. You’ll
recall that she found herself a boyfriend; an accountant type name of
Gareth.
At the time I told you that none of us considered him be Rosey material.
He was somewhat
dull, and his dreary demeanor was rubbing off on our normally gregarious
and
extrovert friend. Anyway, they had a disastrous New Year’s Night
together at
his house and whilst watching a favourite 1930's movie of his from his
collection she realised that she was missing the life she enjoyed
pre-Gareth. When he asked her for her New Year resolutions it was the
perfect opportunity
to tell him she was starting 2013 without him. So I thought a flower, a
pot of
honey and a witty one liner would be just the thing to welcome her back
as the Rosey
we love and miss.