40. Valentine flowers for a mother?
"How romantic this uncle and aunty must be!" the 4 couples and the waitresses in the Crystal Jade Restaurant at Toa Payoh would be thinking.
The 5th couple to join their table of ten was a couple in their fifties while the other 4 couples at the big dining table were younger.
Tables for two on Valentine's Day were full but the restaurant could give immediate seats to couples who did not mind sharing a table of ten (5 couples). So, the fifth couple was Judith and her husband in his mid fifties. Judith was carrying a bouquet of roses --- an uncommon sight in this restaurant.
The waitress smiled and kindly shifted an 11th chair for her to place the boutique of roses. The other 4 couples looked but did not say anything. They were in their thirties and had also not minded sharing a table of ten to have dinner on Valentine's Day in this full-house restaurant. None of them carried any roses into the dining room. In Singapore, seldom do older couples from an earlier generation waste money paying more for roses on Valentine's Day.
Yet here was an older woman carrying a bouquet of roses in a star-shaped wrapping to dazzle everyone and make all fall in love with love again and forget about very expensive roses.
The older woman with the roses did not appear, what I would say, "over the moon" carrying the bouquet of roses.
Why?
The roses were for another lady. Her son sent the roses to his first love at the first love's office but the young lady was in another location. So he phoned his mum to help him bring the roses to meet him. Mum arranged to meet him at this restaurant, carrying the roses and bedazzling all at the restaurant!
The boy had taken special leave from his national service to celebrate Valentine's Day. He got his flowers and would meet his date.
Mum is still a boy's best friend, especially on Valentine's Day. The boy had asked whether he should buy her flowers on Valentine's Day? She said, "Don't waste money. Roses are so expensive on Valentine's Day."
The 5th couple to join their table of ten was a couple in their fifties while the other 4 couples at the big dining table were younger.
Tables for two on Valentine's Day were full but the restaurant could give immediate seats to couples who did not mind sharing a table of ten (5 couples). So, the fifth couple was Judith and her husband in his mid fifties. Judith was carrying a bouquet of roses --- an uncommon sight in this restaurant.
The waitress smiled and kindly shifted an 11th chair for her to place the boutique of roses. The other 4 couples looked but did not say anything. They were in their thirties and had also not minded sharing a table of ten to have dinner on Valentine's Day in this full-house restaurant. None of them carried any roses into the dining room. In Singapore, seldom do older couples from an earlier generation waste money paying more for roses on Valentine's Day.
Yet here was an older woman carrying a bouquet of roses in a star-shaped wrapping to dazzle everyone and make all fall in love with love again and forget about very expensive roses.
The older woman with the roses did not appear, what I would say, "over the moon" carrying the bouquet of roses.
Why?
The roses were for another lady. Her son sent the roses to his first love at the first love's office but the young lady was in another location. So he phoned his mum to help him bring the roses to meet him. Mum arranged to meet him at this restaurant, carrying the roses and bedazzling all at the restaurant!
The boy had taken special leave from his national service to celebrate Valentine's Day. He got his flowers and would meet his date.
Mum is still a boy's best friend, especially on Valentine's Day. The boy had asked whether he should buy her flowers on Valentine's Day? She said, "Don't waste money. Roses are so expensive on Valentine's Day."
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