Roses are red
Violets are blue
I hate greeting cards
I hope you do too
I have made a commitment to not buying any more greeting cards. Why? Because when I need a card for a special occasion, because my wife will not let me hear the end of it if I do not produce a card, I spend 30 minutes in front of the stack of Hallmark cards reading ever one. Looking for that card that will say what I feel with out being schmaltzy . This is driving me crazy because they never really tell the person, who you are buying the card for, how you really feel.
"Our love is deeper than all the oceans combined" or "You are the light in my life".
Excuse me while I go and throw up. If I ever said that to my wife, face to face, she would think that I had just lost a couple of screws. It's not that I don't love my wife but a simple" I love you "is more my style.
The fix, for me any who, is to make my own cards with the help of my computer. It may take a little longer but in the end it is exactly how I feel, and I think that it means a lot more to the person you are giving it too.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I like your more
Than a plate full of stew
4 comments:
Willie:
I just celebrated another anniversary and I agree with your position on store bought cards. Yes I love my wife, but try to find a card that says “the few tired minutes we spend together in silence at the end of the day is really quality time and a day with anyone else would not be as good.”
But I can’t find that card and a funny card will get you a night on the couch so you compromise and hope for the best.
Relationships are difficult, a marriage requires work and Hallmark is a pain in the … I mean an impediment to expressing your true feelings.
Jack, you said it a lot more eloquently then I ever could.
Our first Christmas together, Farf wrote me a poem. Ask him some time about the look of disappointment on my face when I opened the card and it wasn't a gift certificate.
I'm partial to rhyming sympathy cards. Nothing says "I feel your pain" like:
Violets are blue,
Roses are red,
I'm sorry to hear,
Your loved one is dead.
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