Envy Attack

I am usually not much troubled by envy. Still, I was savagely attacked a few days ago in the checkout line at the garden center. I was behind a mother/daughter duo with three large wheeled carts of plants, everything from cyclamens to ornamental trees. Don’t get me wrong. I buy my fair share of plants but nothing like this bonanza. I hadn’t been incapacitated by envy at this point. I was busy rubbernecking, admiring their choices and wondering how long it would take to get this garden in the ground.

As I eavesdropped in the checkout line, envy nearly dropped me to my knees. The daughter of the pair, a woman in her thirties told the cashier, “It’s my birthday. Mom’s buying me all this for my birthday.”

Then Mom chimed in. “Now all we have to do is get out in your yard!”

”That’ll be $967.” replied the checker. “What a wonderful gift!”

At that moment, I wished that young woman had a feather up her butt and I had her plants so we’d both be tickled to death!

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    • I have no shame! Once you start sneaking around………..! Ju now Bud asked me if I was through buying plants. I told him he’ll know I’m through when they close the lif on my coffin., unless I subscribe to a subscription serve.

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