3 Dozen Roses

I was in the military and I met this gal online and she said she would go out with me. I was stationed on a base way out in no where land and I decided to spend the money and rent a car to take her out and went and bought a $50.00 bouquet of roses. Well I got to her barracks and go to her room and her roommate says she told her to tell me she changed her mind and had another date.. Well I was bummed to say the least and I went to the local watering hole and sat drinking my suds all sullen and another military gal comes over to me and asks what the problem was. I told her and she said she would go out with me tommorow night and I went out to the car and gave her the dozen roses I had bought for the first date. I was all happy now and went home awaiting my date saturday night now instead of friday. Well came saturday night and I decided to buy her a dozen roses too different color and went to pick her up at her barracks and her roomate said she was told to tell me that my date went out with someone else. AWE!! I was shattered now being stood up twice and out two dozen roses. Well I went back to the watering hole and felt sorry for myself drinking my suds and another woman came up to me even more beautiful then the other two and I told her what had happened. She said she would go out with me tommorrow night and I went to my car and got the roses and gave them to her. Now all excited that this was going to finally work out and anxiously awaited my date now on Sunday night. Well you quessed it. I bought another dozen roses different color and went to find she was not in either. I had to return the rental car on monday and I ended up spending over $500.oo on the car and roses and never did get a date. This is a true story and I am now a rich monk in a monestary.

A person can respond to suffering like an egg, or like a potato. A potato goes into the boiling water hard, but comes out pliable. An egg goes into the boiling water soft and comes out hard.
------ Are you an egg or a potato?