The Mystery of the Flowers - SOLVED!!
January 23rd, 2007On Friday, flowers were delivered to my door, in my name. The card read: With deepest sympathy from The O P S.
Oooookay. I have no idea what "The O P S" is. The best I could come up with was Out Patient Services, but I would assume that there would be maybe a hospital name if that were the case. My mother decided on Old People Society. So, yeah.
I brought them to the memorial and a whole lot of people asked what the O P S stood for, but I couldn’t help them, since I didn’t know myself. You could see lips moving while folks tried to figure it out - to no avail. This lasted the weekend. We all spent various amounts of time trying to figure out what The O P S might be and it became a bit of a running joke. One of my brothers suggested I google it. Heh.
Yesterday, back at work, one of my co-workers came up to me and asked if I got the flowers. oooooohhhhhhhhh! I said. I explained about the O P S to learn that it should have come from (initials rhyming with "the") Ops (as in operations).
Heh. It was a fun mystery, while it lasted.
