T-bone Steaks, Yellow Roses and Love

I received this email about four years ago. It’s a wonderful story.

A woman walked into the grocery store not particularly interested in buying groceries. She wasn't hungry. The pain of losing her husband of 57 years was still too raw. And this grocery store held so many sweet memories.

Her husband often came to the store with her and almost every time he'd pretend to go off and look for something special. She knew what he was up to. She’d always spot him walking down the aisle with three yellow roses in his hands. He knew she loved yellow roses.

With a heart filled with grief, the woman only wanted to buy a few items and leave, but even grocery shopping was different since her husband had passed on. Shopping for one person took time, and required a little more thought than it had for two people.

Standing by the meat, she searched for the perfect small steak and remembered how he had loved his steak.

Suddenly another woman appeared beside her. She was blonde, slim and lovely in a soft green pantsuit. The older woman watched as the younger woman picked up a large package of T-bone steaks and dropped them in her basket; hesitated, and then put them back in the cooler. She turned to go and once again reached for the package of steaks. From the corner of her eye she could see herself being observed. The lovely blond paused and turned and said sadly “My husband loves T-bones, but honestly, at these prices, I don't know.”

Swallowing the emotion in her throat the woman looked into the strangers pale blue eyes. “My husband passed away eight days ago,” she told her. Glancing at the package in her hands, she fought to control the tremble in her voice. “Buy him the steaks. And cherish every moment you have together.”

The young woman shook her head. The raw emotion could be seen in her eyes as she placed the package of steaks in her basket and wheeled away.

Turning away, the woman was once again alone with her thoughts. After pushing her cart across the length of the store to the dairy products, she stood, trying to decide which size milk she should buy. A quart, she thought, and moved on to the ice cream. If nothing else, she could always fix herself a bowl of ice cream.

She placed the ice cream in her cart and looked down the aisle toward the front. She saw first the green suit, and then recognized the pretty lady coming towards her. In her arms she was carrying a package. On her face was the brightest smile she’d ever seen. She thought that she could see a soft halo encircling the young blonde’s head as she kept walking toward her. The young woman’s eyes were focused intensely on the older woman.

As the young woman got closer, the older woman saw what the young woman was holding and her eyes began to mist. “These are for you,” the young woman said, and placed three beautiful long stemmed yellow roses in the older woman’s arms. “When you go through the line, they will know that these are paid for.” She leaned over and placed a gentle kiss on the older woman’s cheek, then smiled again and walked away. The older woman wanted to tell her what she'd done, what the roses meant, but still unable to speak, she watched as the young woman walked away; as tears clouded her vision.

The woman looked down at the beautiful roses nestled in the green tissue wrapping and found it almost unreal. How did she know? Suddenly the answer seemed so clear; she wasn't alone. “Oh, you haven't forgotten me” she whispered, with tears flowing from her eyes. Her husband was still with her, and that young woman had been his angel sent to comfort her. Her joy was overwhelming.

Everyday angels enter our lives and bring us roses. Although we may often feel isolated and alone, we are never by ourselves.

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More Of They Walk Among Us

I was hanging out with a friend when we saw a woman with a nose ring attached to an earring by a chain. My friend said, 'Wouldn't the chain rip out every time she turned her head?' I had to explain that a person's nose and ear remain the same distance apart no matter which way the head is turned...

*** They Walk Among Us !!!!!!! ***

I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area. So I went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never showed up. She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained professional and I was in good hands.

Then; she asked me, "Has your plane arrived yet?"

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While working at a pizza parlor I observed a man ordering a small pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and the cook asked him if he would like it cut into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time before responding. "Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry enough to eat 6 pieces."

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Sadly, not only do they walk among us, they also reproduce !!!!

 
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Boy vs. Priest

I refrain from making judgments, with respect to a specific church or religions’ policies, practices and beliefs; however, this particular email was funny. It was also a swipe against the Catholic Church’s contraception and anti abortion policies.

While I don’t take a stance on religious policies and beliefs, I do understand that the context of many religious policies, practices and beliefs; were conditions that existed thousands of years ago. Religious law was often created to meet the challenges of the time.

Basic religious foundations (i.e. for me, as a Christian, the “Ten Commandment’s”) were, however, designed as a road map to guide one through a lifetime of experiences. These rules are a constant and transcend the march of time.

Every major Religion has rules similar to the Commandments. Personally, I find that fact to be of great comfort. I believe God to be both universal and transcendent. But, that's just me. You be you.... 

A little boy got on the bus and sat next to a man reading a book. Looking closely at the man, he noticed that the man’s collar was on backwards.

Being an inquisitive youngster the little boy asked the man why he wore his collar backwards.

The man, who was a priest, replied, “I am a Father.”

The little boy replied, “My Daddy is a father and he doesn’t wear his collar like that.”

The priest looked up from his book and answered, ''I am the Father of many.”

The boy said, ''My Dad has 4 boys, 4 girls and two grandchildren and he doesn't wear his collar that way!”

The priest, getting a little impatient, stated, with conviction; “I am the Father of hundreds,” and went back to reading his book.

The little boy sat quietly thinking for a while, and then leaned over and said, in a whisper, ''Maybe you should wear a condom and put your pants on backwards instead of your collar.”

 


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Short And Sweet

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

When God takes something from your grasp, he's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.

Concentrate on this sentence:

“The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.”

Something good will happen to you today. .

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Today’s Funnies

Mental Health

During a visit to the mental hospital, I asked the Director how he determines whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.

'Well,' said the Director, 'we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask he or she to empty the bathtub.'

'Oh, I understand,' I said. 'A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup.'

'No.' said the Director, 'A normal person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?'

Babies Daddy

A married couple went to the hospital to have their baby delivered.

Upon their arrival, the doctor said that the hospital was testing an amazing new high-tech machine that would transfer a portion of the mother's labor pain to the baby's father. He asked if they were interested. Both said they were very much in favor of trying the new machine.

 

The doctor set the pain transfer to ten percent for starters, explaining that even ten percent was probably more pain than the father had ever experienced before. But, as the labor progressed, the husband felt fine and asked the doctor to go ahead and kick it up a notch. The doctor then adjusted the machine to a twenty percent pain transfer.

The husband was still feeling fine. The doctor then checked the husband's blood pressure and was amazed at how well he was doing.

At this point they decided to try for fifty percent. The husband continued to feel quite well. Since the pain transfer was obviously helping the wife considerably, the husband encouraged the doctor to transfer all of the pain to him.

The wife delivered a healthy baby with virtually no pain. The husband had experienced absolutely no pain. She and her husband were ecstatic. They were, all three, discharged from the hospital.

When they got home they found the UPS man dead on the porch.

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One Farmer-One Boy-One Pup

A farmer had some puppies he wanted to sell. He painted a sign advertising the 4 pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of

his property. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy.

"Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."

"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, "These puppies come from fine parents and cost a great deal of money."

The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. "I've got thirty-nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?"

"Sure," said the farmer. And with that he let out a loud whistle. "Here, Dolly!" he called. Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur.

The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight. As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball of fur appeared. This one was noticeably smaller than the others in the group. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner, the little pup began hobbling toward his siblings, doing its best to catch up.

"I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt. The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would."

With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, "You see sir, I don't run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands."

With tears in his eyes, the farmer reached down and picked up the little pup. He gave the little ball of fur to the young boy. The boy began to shed tears of joy, as he asked the farmer the little dogs price. The Farmer smiled through his tears and said “no charge”.   The farmer reasoned, to himself, that you can’t put a price tag on love.

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They Walk Among Us

A guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying: 'Free to a good home. You want it, you take it.' For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it. He eventually decided that people were too un-trusting of this deal. It looked too good to be true, so he changed the sign to read: 'Fridge for sale $50.'

The next day someone stole it!


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One day I was walking down the beach with some friends when someone shouted; 'Look at that dead bird!' Someone looked up at the sky and said; 'where?'

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While looking at a house, my brother asked the estate agent which direction was north because, he explained, he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning. She asked, 'Does the sun rise in the north?' When my brother explained that the sun rises in the east, and has for some time she shook her head and said, 'Oh, I don't keep up with that stuff'.

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My colleague and I were eating our lunch in our cafeteria, when we overheard one of the administrative assistants talking about the sunburn she got on her weekend drive to the beach. She drove down in a convertible, but 'didn't think she'd get sunburned because the car was moving'.

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My sister has a lifesaving tool in her car it's designed to cut through a seat belt if she gets trapped. She keeps it in the trunk.

*** They Walk Among Us!! ***

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