A young man was in love with a beautiful girl. One day when they were walking in the park near the girl's house she said to him:
"Tomorrow is my birthday, will you come to have dinner with me?"
"Of course, I shall," said the young man, "and I'll send you red roses, one rose for each year of your life."
The same evening the young man went to a florist's. As the girl was twenty years old, he paid for twenty roses and asked the florist to send them to the girl's house the next day.
He left her address and a letter full of love.
The florist knew the young man very well because he often bought flowers in his shop.
The florist thought: "The young man is a good customer, my price for the roses was too high, I'll sent thirty roses instead of twenty." And he did so. The next morning he sent thirty red roses to the girl. In the afternoon when the young man came to see her, she did not want to speak to him.
He was very unhappy and went back home. But he never knew why she was so angry with him. Why?
Because she didn't' tell him why she was angry. When someone angers us we owe it to them and ourselves to let them know why. The reason for this requirement is due to the ongoing battle between perception and reality. In this battle perception always wins when the opportunity for clarity is avoided, allowing perception to take on the appearance of reality. Moral: Never let perception still your joy when reality is only soft spoken question away. R.Douglas King
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He told her he's going to get a rose for each year of her life and the florist gave her 30, and she's 20, so he basically called her old.
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