This morning I was drinking my protein shake for breakfast, minding my own business and reading Zite…or Twitter…or Facebook…something like that. My BF, Paul, comes up behind me and starts bugging at my neck and playing with my hair. I kept rolling my head around, but finally I had to say, somewhat irritably, “What do you want?”
This got him to stop, just long enough to hand me a card, smile, roll his eyes, say “Happy Anniversary” and walk away. How do you think I felt? Well, a little chagrined that I had forgotten our 26th anniversary, needless to say.
Now don’t everybody jump down my throat at once! We take turns with forgetting things. Like, I remembered, way in advance, to order beautiful flowers for Valentine’s Day to be delivered to his office. I did happen to get one of the extra boxes of chocolates that he picked up for his sisters, brother in law, and nephew -__-. I blew off Easter (baskets), but he had a stuffed lamby, caramels, a card and two solid chocolate bunnies (I noticed one was dark chocolate, I don’t like dark chocolate, guess who does).
Maybe it should have been my turn to remember, so shoot me, I’ll remember something in the future. That’s the way it goes.
And, by the way, he was smiling when he walked away after handing me the card. Did I mention that, sometimes, its nice to know that you remembered something that someone else didn’t? To know that you just made their day? It’s not all about you, sometimes its all about the other person.
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