Happy for Your Loss

Story Sent in by Myrtle:

At our first date lunch, Eric handed me a card. I thought it was sweet of him to give it to me until I opened it up and saw that it was a sympathy card.

"Why a sympathy card?" I asked him. To my knowledge, no one I knew had died that recently.

He said, "For your loss. Didn't you experience a loss recently?"

"No."

He thought for a second and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Yes."

He thought a bit more then said, "Hang onto it. You'll experience another loss sometime soon." He must have read my reaction, because he quickly cut in with, "I mean, relatively speaking. I mean, someday we're all going to experience more loss. It's just inevitable. Just hang onto it until then and once it happens think of me."

I still didn't have a response for him, and he dug himself in a bit further with, "After lunch, if it'll help you feel better, you can go buy me a sympathy card so we can be even."

I did nothing of the sort, but at least once more during the meal he said, "You hang onto that card. It'll remind you of me someday. Promise."

I threw the card out less than an hour after the date. Now that I'm writing about the experience I guess I've proved him right.