The lyrics are on the card and the card was to celebrate our 5 year dating anniversary. Wow, that anniversary has now been 27 years ago. I still cannot believe it has been 32 years ago today that this whole journey as a couple officially started.
I must apologize to Larry because my memory was wrong on this one, I was actually confusing this with flowers Larry had sent me for my birthday earlier the same year I sent Larry this cookie bouquet. But the story is still funny and still worth sharing.
So back in 1997 for my birthday, Larry decided to surprise me with flowers at work. Back in 1997 we worked separate shifts, had 2 toddlers and 1 car. This meant that whoever was home with the kids did not have a car available to them because the other one needed it to get to work. So Larry asked our friend Jon to come to the house and hang out with the kids so Larry could borrow his car to get flowers and drop them off at work. Well obviously I had no idea this was all going down and called home to check in. Larry answered and was in his usual "I don't really want to be talking on the phone right now" mood and was barely talking in more than one syllable responses so we weren't on the phone for long. Not long after getting off the phone I got a call from the lobby saying I had something to pick up. I go up and find out they are flowers from Larry. Which was sweet but I'm trying to figure out the logistics to this whole thing. I call home again. This time Larry is a Chatty Cathy, which is unusual. Turns out that when I had called earlier it wasn't Larry who answered, you guessed it, it was Jon. They were just laughing it up that he had fooled me. I, on the other hand, was not amused and it wasn't because I had been duped. (I might have been more upset about it if it wasn't so easy to imitate Larry on the phone. All you had to do was just grumble out a few ya's and nah's and sound bored or impatient.) No, I was upset thinking about all the things I could have said but thankfully didn't. They still thought they were funny until I was like, "yeah, well what if I would have started talking about something like sex?", suddenly things didn't quite seem so funny anymore.
Larry’s Perspective:
I'm glad I have Shannon around to help with my memory issues so stories like this can be immortalized.
Is it weird the one guy on the planet that she would dump me for is also the guy who wrote this song she gave to me?
Not if it's Prince...
P.S. After we discussed the cookie delivery story versus the flower delivery story, we are all now witness to two momentous things for November 19th. One, it's our 32nd dating anniversary. Two, for the first time in those 32 years, my wife was not only wrong about something but she openly admitted it! To the whole world!
Ghost of a Chance 