One Word

someone asked me to describe myself in one word...i had to think long and hard before i came up with a very mundane word which sums up what sorta character i am.

i chose the word "funny ". basically because i'd like to think that i'm a funny guy and that i'm fun to be around with (how self-involved am i?). also because u could turn it around and also say it's the other sort of funny, the weird sorta funny which explains why i'm me most of the time. and yes i am weird, i buy guys flowers on our third date.

which brings me to the topic of getting flowers. i dont buy flowers...honestly i dont. but with the guy i'm seeing now i felt like he would like it and maybe appreciate it (yes i'm gonna bitch and moan about it). anyways let me just write about what happened today.

after dinner with my parents i went to Centrepoint to get a rose or something for the guy that i'm seeing, i thought it would be a nice gesture. so i went there and picked out the only roses that were in full bloom and looked fresh and asked the woman to wrap it up for me. this woman...is seriously living in her own little world. the roses were yellow and she was like "oh okay...i'm gonna use purple and yellow wrapping."

i told her no...dont use yellow and purple wrapping...that's rather tacky and it looks really bad. then she said "no it looks okay...come let me try it" and she basically wrapped the whole thing up with me standing there and saying "no i dont want it", "it seriously looks fugly", "why arent u listening to me???" and "what is wrong with u woman!?!?"

she was like...toodle doo..doing her own thing and ignoring whatever i had to say. in the end it looked like crap and i had no time so i paid for it and left. so i had ugly wrapping paper around pretty flowers, i hoped that C would look at the pretty flowers before thinking what horrible taste i have. so i went to pick him up for a movie and he took one look at my flowers and said "who are these for?". he picked it up and sat down and i said those are for u.

what was his response? "oh....."

silence.

we had a laugh about it though, he's not the sorta person who would appreciate flowers and very feminine stuff, which i thought he would, how silly of me. but i thought it was a nice gesture and so did he and on the way back from the movie he ripped off the wrapping paper and kept the flowers instead.

so what lesson did i learn? never bring anyone who isnt out of the closet...flowers or stuffed toys or anything that symbolizes femininity (edible panties anyone?).