A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied, " I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother . But i only have seventy- five cents,and a rose costs, two dollars." The man smiled and said, " Come on in with me, I will buy you a rose." He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers. As they were leaving he offered the girl a ride home .
She said, " Yes, please!You can take me to my mother." She directed him to a cemetery, where sheplaced the rose on freshly dug grave. The man returned to the flower shop,canceled the wire order, picked up a bouguet and drove the two hundred miles to his mother's house.