Three Wise Monkeys

S: The wedding is next Saturday!

H: Already?

S: I still have no dress.  And you need a new tie.

H: I got a tie.

S: It’s a black one. We are not going to a funeral.

H: And the present?

S: What present? We don’t have one!

H: We could give them a Chip N’ Dip.

S: Do you think of the tomato-and-leaves tray from Mad Men?

H: That would be a fun gift.

S: Just for us. They would hate it.

H: Pete from Mad Men exchanges the Chip N’ Dip for a 22-caliber rifle!

S: What would the groom possibly want to do with a gun?

S: I don’t think she’s right.

H: –

S: You and me, I don’t think we have a lot in common.

H: –

S: We accept each other the way we are. We care. Well, we share that humour is an important part in our relationship. What do you think?

H: I too don’t know what she means.

S: But is there something we have in common?

H: We both are round the bend!

She gets off the sofa.

“I’ll be back in a minute. You can continue watching the movie.”

He presses the pause button.

“You find this movie boring.”

She looks at him surprised.

“How do you know?”

“You don’t want me to press the pause button!”

Later that day she would give a neighbor a rose. But right now she pushes her new treasure back home. The wheels of the trolley are causing noise on the pavement. And with the wheels on cobblestones, it gets worse. Still, she has one mile to go. One mile which she walks light footed despite appendage. After walking upstream and crossing the bridge she reaches the city center. Accompanied by the warm sun and the refreshing and spring smelling air she parks the borrowed trolley in front of her house. Her neighbor is already waiting for her. As agreed in advance. But the two women struggle with the door which will not remain open. Suddenly another resident comes downstairs. He wants to keep the front door open. But then without warning he heaves the heavy piece of furniture on his right shoulder and climbs the stair. And even though he had just spoken of his injured elbow! In the evening after work she lays back looking with joy at her new treasure, thinking thankfully of her neighbors which are very important for her well-being.

She can wait. Patiently and with confidence. To enforce and at any cost isn’t what she believes in. The price usually is much too high. And longanimity can bring many advantages. Pleasant anticipation is one of them just to name one. Kind of appetizer before main course. But nothing beats the uncertainty. Many sometimes strong emotions come with the dubiety. And when the time has come and uncertainty resolves in certainty she knows the confidence pays off. When she finally finds the bowl she has been looking and waiting for she enjoys her thrifty find even more than usual. But above all she sees in this last experience the confirmation that patience and confidence are truly powerful tools in life.

Love is when he lives with furniture and gadgets which he would never have bought by himself. Love is when he lives surrounded by dusty and old things with sign of wear which sometimes smell of Grandma’s closet, even though he prefers it new and odorless. Love is when he says he likes it just to make her happy. Love is…