Nothing's ever easy
Luck really wasn't on my side today, very simple task that really fell down around ears. Thismorning was my girlfriend's driving test and, thankfully, she passed! Hurrah! (4th time lucky!) So I said I'd head round her house after she'd finished work later that evening to say well done, I bought her a card that afternoon and decided to get her a little bunch of flowers too.
It was simple, I jump in my car a bit early, drive down to Asda, be a good boyfriend and buy flowers, peel price sticker off, get back in my car and drive round hers. I make it all the way to Asda before I realised I was gonna be 15-20minutes early and beleive it or not there's not much to do at Asda when you absolutely nothing to buy. So I found some flowers but (thankfully) decided to leave them in the bucket instead of carrying them round the shop looking at all the things I could possibly buy if I was ever that way inclined.
I was looking at a Pinata donkey because frankly that was probably the most interesting thing in the entire shop, when all of a sudden I was broken from my musings about whether it's right to tell kids to hit a donkey with a big stick by the sound of someone saying "Hey sweetie, fancy seeing you here!" I turn round and sure enough she's decided to drive her dad to pick up some stuff from Asda of all places! "Oh...hello...how are you?" Given I was meant to be at her house in 20 minutes I certainly couldn't be doing the weekly shop. Some quick thinking was in order. "I'm good thank you, what are you doing here?" she replied, I'd been hoping she wouldn't ask that. "Ermm...y'know, just killing time" "oh ok....in Asda?"
Just as everything was looking lost it hit me in the quickest bit of thinking I've ever done I came up with the greatest cover story ever come up with! (Mensa take note! lol) "Yeh I had to get out the house, Mum wasn't impressed with my exam results" - unfortunately that didn't explain why I'd driven two miles out of my way! But she seemed convinced. How I would get these flowers I had no idea.
So I walk round Asda with her while her dad gets the stuff he needed (12 bottles of wine and 300 balloons - don't ask!) and we headed to the exit. Fortunatly we'd parked at seperate ends of the car park so we split and 30 seconds later I did a swift turn around and straight back into Asda, told the cashier of my plight (as you do!) and I covered the flowers in a few bags. Headed back to my car and in a final stroke of genius got a woman to carry the flowers for me so my girlfriend didn't see me with them.
Sorted.
(I did come clean with how difficult our chance encounter had made things, I'd fooled her except for the fact I'd vanished when she looked back over her shoulder on the way out! Her dad had guessed I was up to something though.)
It was simple, I jump in my car a bit early, drive down to Asda, be a good boyfriend and buy flowers, peel price sticker off, get back in my car and drive round hers. I make it all the way to Asda before I realised I was gonna be 15-20minutes early and beleive it or not there's not much to do at Asda when you absolutely nothing to buy. So I found some flowers but (thankfully) decided to leave them in the bucket instead of carrying them round the shop looking at all the things I could possibly buy if I was ever that way inclined.
I was looking at a Pinata donkey because frankly that was probably the most interesting thing in the entire shop, when all of a sudden I was broken from my musings about whether it's right to tell kids to hit a donkey with a big stick by the sound of someone saying "Hey sweetie, fancy seeing you here!" I turn round and sure enough she's decided to drive her dad to pick up some stuff from Asda of all places! "Oh...hello...how are you?" Given I was meant to be at her house in 20 minutes I certainly couldn't be doing the weekly shop. Some quick thinking was in order. "I'm good thank you, what are you doing here?" she replied, I'd been hoping she wouldn't ask that. "Ermm...y'know, just killing time" "oh ok....in Asda?"
Just as everything was looking lost it hit me in the quickest bit of thinking I've ever done I came up with the greatest cover story ever come up with! (Mensa take note! lol) "Yeh I had to get out the house, Mum wasn't impressed with my exam results" - unfortunately that didn't explain why I'd driven two miles out of my way! But she seemed convinced. How I would get these flowers I had no idea.
So I walk round Asda with her while her dad gets the stuff he needed (12 bottles of wine and 300 balloons - don't ask!) and we headed to the exit. Fortunatly we'd parked at seperate ends of the car park so we split and 30 seconds later I did a swift turn around and straight back into Asda, told the cashier of my plight (as you do!) and I covered the flowers in a few bags. Headed back to my car and in a final stroke of genius got a woman to carry the flowers for me so my girlfriend didn't see me with them.
Sorted.
(I did come clean with how difficult our chance encounter had made things, I'd fooled her except for the fact I'd vanished when she looked back over her shoulder on the way out! Her dad had guessed I was up to something though.)
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