Category: Everyday Life

Just a little impulse buying

Because the Christmas rose was cheap and there were some buds and its stamens hadn’t dropped yet!

There were two women chatting at the supermarket exit where I’d been shopping.
Casually I looked at one of them, and saw she was holding a Christmas rose pot.
I got excited and looked around, and saw one left over.
But it looked like a pink H. orientalis I already had at home.
But even if I gave it to my father, I knew from experience he wouldn’t be interested in it.
What I should do?
But it was in good condition and cheap.
But I was carrying heavy bags of groceries.
What should I do? What should I do?
Many things turned around in my mind while I was going back home.

As soon as I arrived home, I told Chris about it.
He guessed I wanted it, and sent me to the supermarket again.

When I went back to the supermarket, the same people, one of whom had a Christmas rose pot, were still chatting.
I grabbed the pot nobody’d bought yet, then looked for a Rhodohypoxis bauritt for my father’s house. Another woman asked me how much was the Christmas rose I was holding.
‘That was the last one. It’s in good condition and cheap, isn’t it.’
After I chatted with her a little, I went to the cashier.
I guess the lady I talked to might have wanted to buy it. Please forgive greedy me!

Below: our monsters sleeping on a small surface. (It’s a bonus picture.)

– YS, 4 April 2008

4 April 2008