True
love is affection that has been tested by all sorts of situations. Good times
and bad times are the ingredients that make love as powerful as it is. Some
couples show their love by buying presents or going on vacations together.
Other pairs show love by writing poetry, or simply expressing their feelings by
telling their significant other how much they mean to them. And for some
couples, this love spans beyond the grave. And sometimes love is synonymous
with pulling a prank on your sweetheart. But this wife had her husband going
for years after her passing before he realized the joke she played on him.
Phedre
and Nigel Fitton fell in love when they were just 16 years old. Though some
teenagers have relationships that are not very strong, these two young people
knew they were meant to be together. When Phedre passed away, she was almost 70
years old, leaving her husband grief stricken. Though, before she passed away,
she impressed the importance of watering the bathroom plants on her husband —
which he dutifully did for the five years since his wife’s passing.
Nigel
thought of his wife everyday that he watered the plants in the couple’s London
bathroom, likely remembering his wife fondly as he did so. “When she died, my
dad was grief stricken and just followed her wishes,” Antonia Nichol, the
couple’s daughter, said in an interview with Scary Mommy. “He religiously
watered them for a few years.” But the punchline was five years in the making.
As Nigel was packing up their belongings on his way to a new house, he decided
the plants that his wife loved should move along with him. But as he picked
them up, he made a shocking discovery.
The
plants that his wife asked him to water? They were made of plastic!
Before my mum passed away, she gave my dad strict instructions to water the plants in the bathroom. He's been religiously watering them & keeping them alive. They look so amazing he decided to take them to his new home, only to discover they are plastic! Can hear my mum chuckling pic.twitter.com/N87giD5zKT— Antonia Nicol (@Flaminhaystack) January 16, 2018
The
story was so funny, Antonia shared the story on Twitter. Since posting the
wholesome prank that her mother played, Antonia’s post has been retweeted over
40,000 times. And the comments have lots of people enjoying her mother’s little
joke.
Your mum sounds like a scream! Sorry for your loss but happy you had such a wonderful parent.— Kit Caless (@KitCaless) January 16, 2018
Proving
that he also enjoyed his late wife’s joke, Nigel asked his daughter to post a
picture of him watering the fake plants for fun.
@dannywallace my dad has loved this story being on here so much, he's reenacted watering the ferns 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/1NJpoYbpY8— Antonia Nicol (@Flaminhaystack) January 17, 2018
Nigel’s
sense of humor definitely shines through as he realized how sweet his late
wife’s prank actually is. And it’s definitely made our day.