Flower Power

[Brad and Vika 129]

First marriages are usually to Americans or Canadians. It is a learning process. Be quiet and pay your dues. You can have an FSU woman when you are older, fatter, balder and richer...and you have to be richer AFTER your first wife gets done with you!

Word to the wise - start hiding those assets now!!!

[Brad and Vika 129]

Just a note to revive this old subject. The flowers are still working at least as well as they did a year ago. Maybe better.

[Gary and Alla 3,696]

Just a note to revive this old subject. The flowers are still working at least as well as they did a year ago. Maybe better.

Tell me you at least bought new flowers!

It was a good thread, glad to see it is back. I have found that handyman projects are an even better aphrodisiac than flowers, but more expensive, more time consuming and more difficult. If you are planning on sex AND watching a football game all in one day...go with flowers.

[Brad and Vika 129]

Tell me you at least bought new flowers!

It was a good thread, glad to see it is back. I have found that handyman projects are an even better aphrodisiac than flowers, but more expensive, more time consuming and more difficult. If you are planning on sex AND watching a football game all in one day...go with flowers.

The great thing is, the flowers can be almost any kind, from anywhere.

[slim 1,533]

In honor of this thread's revival, I guess I'll buy some flowers for my wife. Should go over pretty well since it's our anniversary tomorrow. Who knows, maybe she'll think they're for the anniversary!

[Ban Hammer 14,635]

The great thing is, the flowers can be almost any kind, from anywhere.

just make sure to replace the card that says "rest in peace, grandma, we miss you"

[Brad and Vika 129]

In honor of this thread's revival, I guess I'll buy some flowers for my wife. Should go over pretty well since it's our anniversary tomorrow. Who knows, maybe she'll think they're for the anniversary!

Whatever works Brad Happy anniversary This is six years, right?

[visaveteran 0]

Whatever works Brad Happy anniversary This is six years, right?

Who's Brad? Did you just reveal a state secret...are you with WikiLeaks? You mean our man Slim is named Brad?

Anyway, I find cold hard cash tops flowers every time. If I give my wife the $75 dollars in cash that it takes to buy a decent flower arrangement or roses, she just lights up with joy...and heads quickly out the door. I see it as a double win for me. First I make my wife happy with me...and I get a few hours of peace and quiet while she's out shopping.

[Gary and Alla 3,696]

Who's Brad? Did you just reveal a state secret...are you with WikiLeaks? You mean our man Slim is named Brad?

Anyway, I find cold hard cash tops flowers every time. If I give my wife the $75 dollars in cash that it takes to buy a decent flower arrangement or roses, she just lights up with joy...and heads quickly out the door. I see it as a double win for me. First I make my wife happy with me...and I get a few hours of peace and quiet while she's out shopping.

You must be old. Us younger guys still want sex. Besides, Alla learned how that debit card thing works, she isn't so impressed by cash anymore.

[Gary and Alla 3,696]

Who's Brad? Did you just reveal a state secret...are you with WikiLeaks? You mean our man Slim is named Brad?

Anyway, I find cold hard cash tops flowers every time. If I give my wife the $75 dollars in cash that it takes to buy a decent flower arrangement or roses, she just lights up with joy...and heads quickly out the door. I see it as a double win for me. First I make my wife happy with me...and I get a few hours of peace and quiet while she's out shopping.

This also brings up a couple things that have changed drastically for my FSU wife and I wonder if the same applies to others. A lot of things about life here are "Meh...so what?" Some very few things are not so good. Some are very good. I can name a couple things that really made an impression on Alla...

1. Tops has got to be the car. She was so anxious about this and before she came would talk about it over and over. "How long would it take to get a license?" "What kind of car will I have?" She had a friend in Ukraine with a car and got her friend to take her one day on all her errands so she could see what it was like! She started learning to drive the second day here and studied very well and drove everywhere with her permit and had her drivers license in two months. I still cannot believe she has not had an accident with another car (at least that I have heard of). But when we bought her first car she just stared at that title with her name on it, not believing she really OWNED a car.

2. Drying machine for clothes. She said she didn't need it and "probably wouldn't use it" Yeah, right. She hardly ever uses her iron anymore. She also has her "work room" in our new house, the "utility room" with her washer and dryer and ironing board all separate from other rooms. She loves that also.

3. Garage door opener! Just put it in a couple weeks ago and she loves it. I think also the "machines for everything" impress her. "machine for cutting grass, machine for digging holes, machine for digging in the dirt, machine for cutting wood" She will have nothing to do with them but has learned that cutting wood takes but a few seconds, for example. At first she laughed at all the "machines", now she loves them.

4. Cheap clothes. Need we say more?

[baron555 934]

This also brings up a couple things that have changed drastically for my FSU wife and I wonder if the same applies to others. A lot of things about life here are "Meh...so what?" Some very few things are not so good. Some are very good. I can name a couple things that really made an impression on Alla...

1. Tops has got to be the car. She was so anxious about this and before she came would talk about it over and over. "How long would it take to get a license?" "What kind of car will I have?" She had a friend in Ukraine with a car and got her friend to take her one day on all her errands so she could see what it was like! She started learning to drive the second day here and studied very well and drove everywhere with her permit and had her drivers license in two months. I still cannot believe she has not had an accident with another car (at least that I have heard of). But when we bought her first car she just stared at that title with her name on it, not believing she really OWNED a car.

2. Drying machine for clothes. She said she didn't need it and "probably wouldn't use it" Yeah, right. She hardly ever uses her iron anymore. She also has her "work room" in our new house, the "utility room" with her washer and dryer and ironing board all separate from other rooms. She loves that also.

3. Garage door opener! Just put it in a couple weeks ago and she loves it. I think also the "machines for everything" impress her. "machine for cutting grass, machine for digging holes, machine for digging in the dirt, machine for cutting wood" She will have nothing to do with them but has learned that cutting wood takes but a few seconds, for example. At first she laughed at all the "machines", now she loves them.

4. Cheap clothes. Need we say more?

Oops... they're playing with the network here at work. I had a long list; I'll redo it tonight from home.

Edited December 13, 2010 by baron555

[Brad and Vika 129]

This also brings up a couple things that have changed drastically for my FSU wife and I wonder if the same applies to others. A lot of things about life here are "Meh...so what?" Some very few things are not so good. Some are very good. I can name a couple things that really made an impression on Alla...

1. Tops has got to be the car. She was so anxious about this and before she came would talk about it over and over. "How long would it take to get a license?" "What kind of car will I have?" She had a friend in Ukraine with a car and got her friend to take her one day on all her errands so she could see what it was like! She started learning to drive the second day here and studied very well and drove everywhere with her permit and had her drivers license in two months. I still cannot believe she has not had an accident with another car (at least that I have heard of). But when we bought her first car she just stared at that title with her name on it, not believing she really OWNED a car. Ditto for Vika

2. Drying machine for clothes. She said she didn't need it and "probably wouldn't use it" Yeah, right. She hardly ever uses her iron anymore. She also has her "work room" in our new house, the "utility room" with her washer and dryer and ironing board all separate from other rooms. She loves that also. Once she understood what "delicates" and "permanent press" meant, it was old hat.

3. Garage door opener! Just put it in a couple weeks ago and she loves it. I think also the "machines for everything" impress her. "machine for cutting grass, machine for digging holes, machine for digging in the dirt, machine for cutting wood" She will have nothing to do with them but has learned that cutting wood takes but a few seconds, for example. At first she laughed at all the "machines", now she loves them. Had this from the jump - so I think she thinks it is normal for us.

4. Cheap clothes. Need we say more? Vika's #1 without a doubt. She also adds things to buy other than clothes

[baron555 934]

things that really made an impression on Alla...

Here's some more, from my wife:

1. Cheap food including excellent produce and meat selections

2. The hoops one must jump through just to get a prescription of antibiotics for the kid. (It's easier and quicker to buy guns and ammunition online.)

3. Yes her DL

4. State parks with designated campgrounds without garbage strewn about and showers with hot water and flush toilets.

5. Her newest fave: Tacos with pork meat filling (plus refrieds, guac, cheese, cilantro and Mexican table cream)

6. Full refund on return merchandise after you have opened the box.

7. Free shipping and free return for online purchases

8. Jo-Ann's Fabrics (Home Depot for seamstresses)

9. Complete strangers will say Hello and Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening

10. Even the Police smile (It's because they are smiling at you....I am not the blond hottie and they are not smiling at me, dear.)

11. The Amish

12. Wisconsin homegrown and homemade cheese

13. Her own jams made from raspberries and strawberries she grew in her garden

14. Chinese Take-out (How do they stay in business with all this food that will feed us for three days for only $12 for two?)

15. Differences between the Hispanic Immigrants (including illegals) and other Americans originally from the continent east of South America.

16. Coupons (She still doesn't get that some are good for only a certain day(s) and are item-specific.)

Edited December 14, 2010 by baron555

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I would seriously love to see what happens when a (not their fault) guy from America gives his RUB girl flowers for the first time, and gives an even number because he doesn't know any better

I bet hilarity would ensue

Been there done that. Nobody told me even numbers were for dead people until after I blew the money on the roses.

[Brad and Vika 129]

I give whatever the store sells. Never had a problem. Vika says "different country, different tradition". Sometimes Ukrainian practicality works for me!