The flowers I picked up last Friday? They still looked great this morning:
Which, I don’t know how you’re supposed to estimate the value of a bouquet, but I turned down the options at the first grocery store I went to that day because the flowers in their stand were running for $8. There was nothing wrong with the flowers, but they don’t have any actual floral department there, or anyone pretending to be a florist. Someone just ships in the finished bouquet. And that’s fine, but it makes you wonder how long they’ve been there. Plus, I figured, since I was going to the other, larger store too, and since they have an actual floral department staffed with people at least pretending to be florists — and perhaps some legitimate florists, too — I would find better options and maybe some fresher cuts. It is a bigger store, you see.
And at that store I had options aplenty. There was this cooler and that wall, and this bundle bin thing in between and in that bin there were bunches of flowers of one variety and several, all wrapped up in that crinkly, premium cellophane that feels substantial and let’s you, as the consumer, think you’re getting a great deal. And you were! Almost all of the flowers were less than the $8 at the other store. But you have to be careful, because not all of these bundles are the same price. And this wasn’t for a special day, but a Friday, so there was no need to go crazy here.
So I spent about five or six bucks on those things and they’ve been sitting on the bar in the kitchen since Friday evening and aren’t showing any real signs of giving up yet. So I guess I got a good deal on those.
And of course I know how to estimate the value of a bouquet. The Yankee saw them and smiled and thanked me and gave me a hug and a kiss and those flowers were a steal, and I should go back and thank the florists at the great big, ridiculous grocery store.
Like I’m going in there again anytime soon.
Here, watch this. It is rather amusing:
Now that makes the second time Forrest Gump has come up in conversation today. And somewhere along the way I wondered, Has anyone turned that into a horror movie yet?
Once again, the web provides.
