A man had gone to celebrate the Valentine ’s Day with his
wife. He had brought four bunches of balloons. Two bunches he had held in his
hands and the other two he had given to his wife with whom he was celebrating
the day.
Now his wife was eating her favourite bourbourn flavoured
ice cream,when her husband had handed the balloons.
For few minutes she was happily eating and munching the ice
cream, when she spotted a dress at a display still of a big shop, which
specializes in ladies dresses.
Instantaneously, she
let go off the balloons and called out to her husband-“See this dress. Isn’t it
pretty?”
Her husband didn’t reply back to her as he was shocked to
see the balloons fly away. His wife called out to him again, but this time, he
started chasing the balloons.They had just come out of the shopping area and at
the exterior end of it was the cloth shop on whose window still she had seen the
dress.
Now nearly twenty red valentine balloons were in the air and
people were looking towards them questionably and the man was running to save
his balloons which was a more comical sight.
He chased the balloons for over two hundred metres and that’s
when his hat tonked off his head and fell on the road. People who were seeing
this happening started laughing.By then his wife had caught up with him and
asked him-“why are you running after the balloons? Let them fly off. All are
laughing at your foolishness.”
The man picked up his hat and brushed off the dirt from it.
Inside from his hat, he brought out a letter and gave it to his wife, saying-“For
you.”
The wife opened the letter. After reading the letter she
kept on blinking her eyes like a robot.
Her husband simply sighed.
Do you know what was written in the letter?
The content of the letter was-
“My Dear Wife,
As you are the only one
in my life, the beautiful diamond pendant hidden in one of the balloons is for
you my Valentine, for the diamond in my life.
In your service and love,
Husband.
Wife-“What do you mean by diamond pendant?”
Husband-“I had bought a beautiful, small and gorgeous
diamond pendant for you and had hidden it in one of the balloons. When we would
have reached home, I would have given this letter to you and asked you to pop
the balloons one by one to find the pendant.”
Wife-“Are you mad? Who hides a diamond pendant in
balloons? You should have told me
beforehand. Now my diamond pendant is lost.”
His wife was so upset that she got into an auto while their
car was parked at the mall. However the husband walked back to the mall, got
into his car and drove back home.
When he reached home, he found a note besides the front door
from his wife-“I am going to my maternal home for two days. Don’t call me.”
The man felt very sad.
At evening seven o’ clock, the doorbell rang and he was
astonished to see the store manager of the jewellery shop from where he had
bought the diamond pendant in front of him.”
The store manager-“Sir, while packing the pendant, our sales
staff had given you an empty box. Here is the original diamond pendant and with
that please accept this bar of Cadbury from us as our apology. To make it upto
you, we are giving you a coupon of thirty percent discount for the next time
you shop. Hope you have a Great Day”. Then the manager left.
The husband was still standing at his doorstep with his
mouth wide open. He couldn’t believe his luck. The diamond pendant was in his
hand, so he could call his wife now.
Immediately he dialled his wife, but she wouldn’t pick up
the confounding mobile phone of hers.
He kept on dialling her, to his mother in law, but to his
dismay, his mother in law simply cancelled his call and he too didn’t call her
anymore. Who likes calling his mother in law? That’s a big ground for trouble.
So, he ate a sandwich and went to sleep.
At ten p.m. the sleep breaking doorbell rang again.
Rubbing his eyes like a senile man he opened his door to
find his whole lot of in-laws standing in front of him. He again rubbed his
eyes, thinking that he was hallucinating. But the vision remained the same. His
brother in law, sister in law, mother in law, father in law and grumbling
behind them was his wife, were standing at the porch.
He said-“Hi.”
Mother in law-“Well we have come to meet the foolish man who
packs a diamond pendant in a balloon.
The husband-“That’s me ma’am.”
He asked everyone to come in and the in-laws came inside and
his wife went to the kitchen to bring water for everybody. On the kitchen table
she found a red jewellery box. She became suspicious and opened it. Inside was
the diamond pendant. Seeing it she began screaming.
Everybody rushed to the dining area. She shouted-“Mother,
father see my diamond pendant.”
Everybody saw it and acknowledged the fact that it was
beautiful and charming.
The husband came looking like a loopy person and said-“So,now
you are happy that you have got your pendant?”
Wife-“Yes!”
The husband was all smiles.
He said-“Happy Valentine’s day wife.”
The wife –“Same to you”. Then she went inside to keep her
pendant safely in her locker.
Such are valentines nowadays.
Adios!
Before You Travel. 