The word I heard from Denise this week was “pine”. Here I am just having a little fun. I’m sure you know what Dorothy Parker had to say about horticulture. There’s nothing much to think about with this Six except to consider hopping over to GirlieOnTheEdge and submitting a Six Sentence Story of your own, just six, no more no less.
Pining for Perfection
“What do you mean, you don’t have any pine— there must be dozens here.”
“M’am, a pine is an evergreen, but evergreens aren’t all pines; I carry fir— balsam mostly, Fraser fir, some Douglas fir.”
The woman clutched at her fur stole, looking around, still skeptical, until her face lit up; “That one, I want that… fir over there, or even this little one here with the red berries.”
“Sorry M’am, those are part of the landscaping, planted, not for sale, and anyway that’s a spruce and this one’s a yew, in other words, Taxus.”
“You are taxing my patience, as I didn’t come here for horticulture lessons— all I want to know is, do you have the perfect Christmas tree for me?”
“Oh, yes M’am, I most certainly do, we’ll find you a Fraser that looks like that spruce, and M’am… happy Holly days!”
Well, like her i can’t tell one fir from another. Somebody just pick me a pretty one, please!
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They are all good, not a bad tree on the lot.
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What a fun Six! This made me smile and I could visualize this scene.
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Oh good! Thanks.
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Very easy to visualize, very good six
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Thanks.
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As someone who worked in retail in her younger years – even people shopping for Christmas trees, can be, shall we say, fickle 😀
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Funny how folks that can’t discern the differences between different genus and species still have an eye for the perfect Christmas tree. And they’re right; the customer always is.
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Get the hell outa here!
(Wayne and Garth: “I am not worthy….I am not worthy!”)
I am glad I read this here Six here.
lol
(Lest my muse take offence* I will confess to having to look up the quote and, and, having looked it up, thought, ‘Damn! My education is twenty years too contemporary and literature-istically incomplete.’)
* yes, I did use a ‘c’.
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You must be referring to Ms. Parker. A pithy wit, she held her own at the round table.
As for me, I just felt like branching into taxonomy, picking hairs over needles, couldn’t leaf it alone.
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Pine Sol is as close as I get to a real tree, butt his made me want to visit a tree place just to learn about all the varieties. Nicely done! I felt like an observer.
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Why not go just for fun? Or, I there’s not a horticultural garden nearby, visit a nursery, read the tags. Thanks for coming by the tree stand.
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