Please don't give me house plants as gifts....

I found this cartoon on the floor a few weeks ago. It must have fallen out of a file-folder or keep-sake box. It used to live on the refrigerator, and is a gentle rebuke to the lovely, generous, well-meaning people who think that a house-plant is a good gift for me.

Particularly those misguided benefactors who gave me plants just after I'd brought a newborn home.