Here's a little story I had flushed out of my mind while I was updating their visit. I figure the Dayquil I just took helped me remember it.
I have no idea how we got on the subject, but M asks us if we remember the little bonsai tree we got them for one of their birthdays or something.
Reaching back into the depths, and lying, we say "oh sure". Typically we go up on ftd.com and we close our eyes and point at the screen and that's what they get for special occasions. Sometimes for B we sort by "golf" junk and pick. Apparently we got them some sort of Zen Bonsai golf thing.
"Well" M starts off, "We must admit that it didn't last very long, the poor leaves started falling off it the minute we took it out of the box. Soon, the whole thing had no leaves at all, and it was such a shame, as it was a very pretty little tree"
Most people, when getting flowers or plants, when they invariably die, toss them in the trash. Oh no, not them.
"We took the little tree to the florist, and since we took pictures of it before it died, we asked the nice young lady there if she could recreate the tree from plastic stuff".
HUH? You paid someone to recreate a 20 buck bonzai tree (marked up to 80 bucks)?
"So she spent weeks gluing little plastic leaves on the tree, and got it pretty close to what it was." (You've got to be kidding me). "But then the other day we noticed that the glue wasn't holding, and those leaves are falling off again!"
Who spends money to have plastic leaves glued to a dead bonzai tree stump? Just throw the stupid thing away!!!!!
So, I'm guessing that'll be on the list of heirlooms they want us to have once they kick.
