The stamps and Alex

Alex went to get stamps yesterday.
i tell him, get some good stamps...
bright colors... flowers...
interesting... but he usually
comes back with stupid, dull,
non-interesting ones. he says,
that’s all they had.

i don’t think he is lying.
so yesterday, i didn’t even bother to instruct him about
colors, flowers, or anything a little different.
i just gave him a check
and the mail basket,
with the mail, to go out.

he came back with the usual flowers we had seen a hundred times
before. then he showed me a sheet of stamps with planets like neptune,
jupiter, and mercury. wow. he asked if i liked them. they were amazing.
i was blown away... he didn’t know if i would like them. what????

so, Steve is going back to get 100 today. they are so good, i would like
to put them on all or our mail this week, even the telephone bill.