Atonement

My daughter told me that she is going to see the movie Atonement.   It is a serious chick flick and I told her she would enjoy it.   Then I told her I wished I could go with them.  She laughed and said it was a romantic movie and I wouldn't enjoy it.   I told her that I was indeed a very romantic person and she just laughed.  I insisted that I was a very romantic kind of guy and she laughed again.  Then she asked me about Valentines Day 2008. 

On the weekend before Valentine's day I needed some car parts (wiper blades, headlights, etc.) so we went to the local auto parts store.  We wandered around and bought what we needed and a few things that we really didn't need and as we were getting ready to pay my daughter started laughing.

She dragged me over to a display and told me to look.  I gazed at a display of pickles sealed in plastic bags.  They were labeled as Pickles in a Pouch.  Not only that but they were labeled as Big Papa: The Portly Pickle and Hot Mama: The Sassy Pickle.  I told the daughter to grab one of each.  She gave me a very odd look and asked why.  I explained that Valentine's Day was coming up and her mother liked pickles.  She thought I was joking but I grabbed the pickles and headed to the checkout.

My daughter couldn't believe that an auto parts store would sell pickles (especially in a pouch).

We got the pickles home and I couldn't wait to give them to the wife.

To my surprise she wasn't as excited about the pickles as I was.

Many men, especially men who have been married as long as I have, totally overlook Valentine's Day. Being the romantic that I am I couldn't let it pass.

Let this be a lesson to my daughter.  I am a very romantic guy. 

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