mamachari

I almost missed my parents’ 30th wedding anniversary. This afternoon, I realized today is the day. I didn’t plan anything nor did my bro (couldn’t even catch him on the phone or email…) Too late to buy a present and send it or hop on the train to visit them. After scratching my head, drinking a cup of tea and scratching my head some more, I decided to call the tiny little flower shop my old friend’s mum runs in my hometown. A couple of years ago when my mum turned 60, I called the shop from Tokyo and asked them to send her a big bouquet of flowers. I told them that I didn’t know when I would be back in town and be able to pay for the flowers but they did it for me anyway. I ask them to do the same thing this time again.

I am a heavy Internet user and shop online a lot. With my plastic, I buy things, have them shipped right to my door or someone else’s. I just sent my aunt who lives in Hokkaido a box of sweets from Yokohama that she loves using an online shopping site, which she was very happy to receive because she can’t get it where she lives. I might even have sent my folks something through some kind of online service had I thought about it well in advance. But then again this time, all I had to do was to call up people I know for 20 years, tell them my name, no money upfront, the flowers were delivered to my parents’ within two hours. What better service is there than this?

It just made me think what an and-you’re-done kinda person I have become…　反省。

My dad sent this photo of the flowers with his cell phone, which he has recently learnt how.