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“Good reet her, happy now that I’m free of the lonely old lady customer

Marsha’s a little weird but we’ve become friends and I’d way rather talk to her than hear about a niece naraduation but was too rude to write a thank you note in return

“Good , Sheila!” she replies

She sets the file by the register and looks at me

“Sheila, I just wanted to co that customer, and I really admire your patience,” she says to me

Her words fill me with pride

“Thank you! I really like my work here Actually, it’s always been a dream of mine to own my own flower shop like this,” I confess to her

She goes to the register, checking the cash and change in the drawer

“If you keep working as hard as you have been, I have no doubt that you’ll be able to acco back to her office

I go back to helping the elderly lady, who has finally settled on a nice vase of cosmos, believe it or not At least allAnd she smiles at their beauty, which makes me happy

The shop is empty after she leaves; it’s a slow day I walk around and clean up I then busyso on the phone; sheto her husband

A few minutes later, she walks back out into the main part of the store, with an expensive Louis Vuitton purse slung over her shoulder like it always is whenever she’s co

“Sheila, can you handle the store for about thirty minutes? I have to run to the bank,” she asks me

“Of course! It’s such a slow day; it’ll be easy,” I reply, looking up fro

“Great! See you when I get back!” she says, hurrying out the door

I just s to have lunch with her husband He treats her out about three times a week He can afford it; he’s a real estate tycoon

While I snip the stems on a bouquet of roses and start to wrap thee they have and of being distrustful of it I know I couldn’t handle being married