Sometimes, one smile means more than a dozen roses

What!?!?

A friend (THANK YOU, JEAN) brought over a bag of r-e-a-l-l-y dark chocolate Dove mini's, and we had fun (all of us) devouring the darned things. But, have you ever noticed that the foil wrappers have fortune-like sayings inside? Some people never take the time to observe...so I can imagine the candy being liberated from its wrapper, and the foil being discarded without so much as a glance at the saying hidden inside. Poor wrappers.

Sad little wrappers.

Oddly enough, I was reading my wrappers this weekend (because I am diligent and somewhat compulsive regarding such simple things) when I came across the saddest excuse ever for not spending a little scratch ,or taking time to think (and act) before a particularly important ocassion or celebration, and it could only have been written by a man.

I can only imagine that the man who wrote this little ditty was looking for some weak-knee'd, slack-jawed, Hallmark-sort-of-way, to let himself out of a (sorely needed) butt-chewing -- most likely for forgetting an anniversary, birthday or other meaningful event.

Yes...you guessed it, ladies. It was: "Sometimes, one smile means more than a dozen roses."

A smarmy little homily meaning 'I didn't feel like stopping on the way home (from hanging with the guys) to grab a raggedy handful of four-day-old wilted roses from the cooler at the neighborhood Kroger. Heck, why should I, when I know one of my smiles is worth more than a dozen roses.'

Have you fallen on the ground and smacked yourself silly?

Seriously?

If you didn't fall on the ground and smack yourself silly, please...allow me. I am in a smack-someone-silly-just-for-the-pure-pleasure-of-hearing-the-sound kind of mood.

Smackety-smackety-smack-smack-smack! C'mere you coward.

Sometimes, a smack means 'I forgive your cheap *ss'.