(Dedicated in
loving memory to my Grandma.)
A man stopped
at a flower shop to order some flowers to be
wired to his mother who lived two hundred
miles away. As he got out of his car he
noticed a young girl sitting on the curb
sobbing.
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
two hundred miles to his mother's house.
