Mother’s day
A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be delivered to his mother who lived three hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the pavement crying. He asked her what was wrong and she replied,
“I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars.”
The man smiled and said,
“Come on in with me. I’ll buy you a rose.”
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home. She said,
“Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.”
She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave.
The man returned to the flower shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bouquet and drove the three hundred miles to his mother’s house.
