Last Kiss by John Lustig for March 17, 2023

It sounds like there’s a “O. Henry” slant coming to this story.

Maybe one of her previous fellas is having regrets? Like the song goes, “I hope he buys you flowers, I hope he holds your hand, Give you all his hours, When he has the chance, Takes you to every party, Cause I remember how much you loved to dance, Do all the things I should have done, When I was your man”. https://youtu.be/ekzHIouo8Q4

D@mn it, John.

How many times I told you, flowers AND a get well card.

How will Abby know it was you, when you don’t leave a card?

And he looked just like a little tramp and had a little cane and a hat. He walked with a waddle and had the nicest little smile

a florist!

Abby seems a bit math challenged. I count three things.

Who? Who? Who is it, Abby?

Harpo! He always handed ladies a flower when they felt bad.

LIEUTENANT: The flower people from planet Zinnia are telling me they’ll zap us into oblivion if we throw so much as one more wedding bouquet…

COLONEL: I asked you to tell me all you know about Allied troop movements in Europe!!! BAH! THIS LSD STUFF IS USELESS AS A TRUTH SERUM!!!

Here’s support for this “joke” in case you don’t know what I was aiming at! So if you don’t get it, now you do!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28686061/#:~:text=Extensive%20LSD%20testing%20was%20conducted,Health%20Initiative%20Report%20in%202003.

Teddy Broonfeld, my next door neighbor. He’s good like that.

Grandpa would try anything to see if he could get a peek.

Isn’t this somewhere around your 50th anniversary?

I don’t get the joke.

My Grandmother’s favorite room in her house was a smallish room covered, walls and ceiling, with mural wallpaper of flowers. A fun room when I was growing up!