unamericanizing Vang?
I am really the worst person for posting this. I will get into trouble. Oh well!
Eight years ago I was at class when Vang broke into my house(I was still iving with my mom at the time) and left for me a giant red balloon that said "I Love You!" a really sappy card that played music and was signed "with love always, Vang" and a huge white stuffed teddy bear that I still have and rarely let the kids play with. He told me later he drove around with the bear seatbelted into the front seat and he was going to deliver it after work but all his coworkers kept teasing him so he delivered it on his lunch break. (I missed him by minutes.)I asked him why he seat belted it in. He said he didn't want him to get hurt or fall down. Awwww!
Four years ago we lived in the city with Vang's parents. He bought me a green plastic vase with a balloon on a stick that said "Happy Valentines Day" and had a small clip on bear. He set it on the window sill on my side of the bed and I ddin't notice it for the entire day until he asked me why I didn't like it. It lived on top of the refridgerator until we moved and thewn someone gave it to Tracy to play with and I never saw it again.
Yesterday I woke up early and made the girls heart shaped pancakes. Without a word to me,(ie. I love you, happy valentines day, thank you for my present last night . . ), he snaps at the girls to keep thier food on thier plates cause who knows when mama cleaned this table last! I burst into tears cause I had just finished making him a special plate of pancakes that spelled out "I Love You". He goes out to the car and says he didn't forget. He gives me a plastic rose that smells like his mother's perfume. Tells me he loves me and Happy Valentines Day, The card was printed "Happy Valentines Day! Love," but he hadn't signed it.
What could I do? I sighed and thanked him. Told him I loved it and apologized for making a big deal about nothing. I mean its Valentines, right? I asked him to please sign the card. He did. I told him honestly I would rather have a real flower next year and he says they die and then they stink but he bought this at the Dollar Store and it would never die. A true romantic if I ever met one. And thrifty too!
I got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and saw a light on. When I went to shut it off I saw a white box with a plastic window and through the window I could see what appeared to be five or six long stem roses! I started crying and ran to wake him up. "Oh my god thank you! They are beautiful! No one has ever given me roses, or any other flower before! Thank you its exactly what I wanted!"
Apparently he figured I was disappointed he only spent a dollar. (Really I was pleased he hadn't forgotten entirely.)So he stops at the grocery store after work and buys a chocolate cake. He later explained he figured this was one of those "eating holidays" and chocolate is what we were supposed to eat, right? But he forgot to give it to me. It sat on the livingroom table all noght without him mentioning it. He said "You like chocolate. And this morning you say you like flowers!"
And I thought he never listened to me.
Good night everybody!
Eight years ago I was at class when Vang broke into my house(I was still iving with my mom at the time) and left for me a giant red balloon that said "I Love You!" a really sappy card that played music and was signed "with love always, Vang" and a huge white stuffed teddy bear that I still have and rarely let the kids play with. He told me later he drove around with the bear seatbelted into the front seat and he was going to deliver it after work but all his coworkers kept teasing him so he delivered it on his lunch break. (I missed him by minutes.)I asked him why he seat belted it in. He said he didn't want him to get hurt or fall down. Awwww!
Four years ago we lived in the city with Vang's parents. He bought me a green plastic vase with a balloon on a stick that said "Happy Valentines Day" and had a small clip on bear. He set it on the window sill on my side of the bed and I ddin't notice it for the entire day until he asked me why I didn't like it. It lived on top of the refridgerator until we moved and thewn someone gave it to Tracy to play with and I never saw it again.
Yesterday I woke up early and made the girls heart shaped pancakes. Without a word to me,(ie. I love you, happy valentines day, thank you for my present last night . . ), he snaps at the girls to keep thier food on thier plates cause who knows when mama cleaned this table last! I burst into tears cause I had just finished making him a special plate of pancakes that spelled out "I Love You". He goes out to the car and says he didn't forget. He gives me a plastic rose that smells like his mother's perfume. Tells me he loves me and Happy Valentines Day, The card was printed "Happy Valentines Day! Love," but he hadn't signed it.
What could I do? I sighed and thanked him. Told him I loved it and apologized for making a big deal about nothing. I mean its Valentines, right? I asked him to please sign the card. He did. I told him honestly I would rather have a real flower next year and he says they die and then they stink but he bought this at the Dollar Store and it would never die. A true romantic if I ever met one. And thrifty too!
I got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night and saw a light on. When I went to shut it off I saw a white box with a plastic window and through the window I could see what appeared to be five or six long stem roses! I started crying and ran to wake him up. "Oh my god thank you! They are beautiful! No one has ever given me roses, or any other flower before! Thank you its exactly what I wanted!"
Apparently he figured I was disappointed he only spent a dollar. (Really I was pleased he hadn't forgotten entirely.)So he stops at the grocery store after work and buys a chocolate cake. He later explained he figured this was one of those "eating holidays" and chocolate is what we were supposed to eat, right? But he forgot to give it to me. It sat on the livingroom table all noght without him mentioning it. He said "You like chocolate. And this morning you say you like flowers!"
And I thought he never listened to me.
Good night everybody!