I am browsing the Hallmark wedding anniversary site. (Seventeen years: furniture.) Rarely do I click on other links, and I can’t even retrace how I got to this site (no, honestly), but suddenly I find myself at www.romanticgifts.com and thence at The Bed of Roses Kit.
Suspending my natural cynicism, I give it a chance. I read the brief directions:
While you light candles, put champagne on ice, and scatter rose petals amidst the bed sheets your loved one will receive a discreet invitation to a night of romance.
Well, fine. Perhaps the rose petals are provided. Would they be dried? Trying not to think about cleaning up after the rose petals have been dallied on, I continue:
When they arrive their breath will be stolen by the array of amorous. If a carpet of rose petals isn’t love then what is?
Is there a word missing from the first sentence?
I am unable to answer the second sentence.
Progress the evening with chocolate massage oil and massager, than let love take it’s course.
OK, now the mood is ruined. I am entirely unable to progress the evening because of that apostrophe. Another night of love sidelined by bad punctuation.
nylusmilk Said:
on 20 August, 2007 at 1:51 am
well, as they say, love is blind!
anmaru Said:
on 21 August, 2007 at 7:15 pm
anon fan |
I was with you… I didn’t even make it to the apostrophe problem. It was the “than” that got me! Oh my! The horror. The moment is ruined. Was there a moment?
>>Dear anon fan: I have cut-and-posted this (note useful new phrase!) to the right item. No comment, of course, on whether there was or was not a moment …
anmaru Said:
on 22 August, 2007 at 11:52 am
Well, nylusmilk: This is an interesting comment that has kept me pondering for hours. My conclusion: I think love is perhaps not completely blind but definitely visually impaired. How much one ignores or chooses to ignore has to be a matter of degree. Compare the first heady days of a new relationship when love is definitely blind to the days/ months/ years later on when one recognizes that the beloved has a few minor flaws.