The Lockhorns by Bunny Hoest and John Reiner for October 22, 2024

So what where he bought them. Isn’t it the thought that counts???

if that’s how it works, then Loretta got dinner from the outhouse

So what? I mean really, so what?

I used to carpool during the oil embargo of 1973. One guy insisted we stop at a florist on the way home so he could get his wife some flowers. He browbeat the other members of the carpool to buy some flowers for their wives. My wife’s first words as I walked into the house. “WHAT DID YOU DO!?”

He bought you roses! It doesn’t matter if they came from the florist, the grocery store or the gas station. He didn’t have to buy flowers at all. Can’t you appreciate thefact he did?

At least he didn’t buy them from the tavern.

I beg your pardon, he never promised you a rose garden.

Those gas station flowers are the BEST!!

At least he tried ;)

Since when do gas fumes invade the inside of a combination "C’ store/gas store?

How DARE he not spend $40 more to get flowers?!

Quit your b!tching, at least its not gas station sushi.

Gas station? Flower shop? What’s the diff?

That’d be the last flowers she ever got from me.

Afterthought is still thought.. Loretta

Well at leastleastLeroy bought you roses

They’re very rare. How often have you seen roses growing at a gas station?

Poor guy can’t win for losing.

She knew it was from a gas station because it smelled like Premium gasoline?

A roses is a rose.

I know the reason that was said was to set up the joke. But I’m imagining 3 seconds before this. Leroy walks into the room and asks her if she stopped to smell the roses. Huh? There is no reason for him to say that.

Okay next time I bring you some air from the tire lane.

A rose is a rose. It’s the thought that counts.

OTOH – a rose bush lovingly bought and planted and cared for – wonderful! 8)