A Dear Older Gent

I was talking with a dear older gent the other day. He is a widower, and he had always relied on his sweet wife to do all his shopping. He recently developed the need for a new pair of pants. This man quickly went to the store and found a great pair of pants much to his liking. With his great, new pants on, he went to the senior center for lunch. There was a birthday celebration, and cupcakes were being passed out. As the server was serving the cupcakes to the seniors, she slipped and the last cupcake fell, frosting first, right on our man's pants, and then continued onto the floor. The server looked with pity at the man, and at the last cupcake now lying on the floor, and asked, "Do you still want it?" The man looked quizzically at the cupcake that was an unfortunate victim of gravity, and replied simply, "It's on the floor." "Could I get a new one?" The embarrassed server told him there were no extras. So the hungry old man calmly went home to clean the frosting off his great, new pants. It was not an ideal day.