If you want to stress out your friend, move to a different country and leave your precious plant in their care.

I have a plant that was 

bequeathened to me when

a friend moved to Guatemala

for two years.

It's a special little plant,

because it's supposed to grow

these buds and I am supposed

to harvest them and save them

so that when she returns

she can make a tincture!

A freaking tincture.

And I adore her, so I don't mind.

But this plant was a little bitch

this past winter and dropped 

every damned leaf!

And all I could think about was that

promised tincture,

so I lovingly repotted it

and for over 6 months

this is what I looked like:

And everyone,

I mean everyone

asked why I had a stick in a pot,

and I would give them my best

worst spitty impression of Samwise Gamgee,

"I made a promise, a pffromiss, Mr. Frodo."

Then one warm day

little buds appeared

and then two branches grew 

and grew and grew.

It doesn't look as pretty 

as the original leaves did,

but, it liiiiives!!!

Which is great because she recently asked about it:

Never let an adorable hippy

become your very dear friend.