Saturday, February 5, 2011

Chinese Restaurant Lady with a Hidden Agenda

Anyone who lives in this small town knows the exact restaurant that I'm talking about.  It's the only Chinese Restaurant/bar/hotel in town.  Actually, I think it's the only hotel we have, so that pretty much narrows down the choices to one.

Every time my husband and I go to said restaurant the little Chinese owner lady/waitress greets us and sometime during the conversation  says "You very pretty".  I am always flattered and slightly embarrassed because I don't know how to act like a human being when someone that I don't know compliments me. 

As we leave it's a guarantee that she will hand me a cute origami flower that she made.  When I get home, because I don't know what to do with my massive collection of these things, I throw them away.  I appreciate the gesture from the Chinese Restaurant lady, but I honestly don't know what she expects me to do with a bouquet of origami flowers.

Yesterday, my husband texted me to inform me that he was at the Chinese Restaurant for lunch and that the Chinese Restaurant lady asked about me and gave him another one of these origami flowers. 

I have this theory:  The origami flowers must be some sort of fertility flower and whoever takes and keeps the flower will suddenly procreate.

I told my husband this theory.  He was able to confirm that the Chinese Restaurant lady asked when we were going to have kids, husband said he wasn't sure, so she gave him a second fertility origami flower to take home and give to me!

I was not able to immediately find any such proof that there is a thing called a "Fertility Origami Flower" when researching the internet, but I am positive that this is a Chinese secret that has been kept from the outside world for centuries.

There is only one problem I now seem to face with this knowledge.  Since the Chinese Restaurant lady knows that we are not pregnant yet, and yet she keeps giving me these fertility origami flowers, that means that she must know that I am throwing them away.  Therefor I can not go back to that restaurant because I have hurt her feelings because she knows that I threw away her fertility origami flowers instead of keeping them in my house and increasing her mystical Chinese method of helping unsuspecting couples in procreating.

1 comment:

  1. Breal, you are cracking me up! This post is hilarious! Glad I stumbled across your blog :)

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