Thought of the Day
So, with less than two weeks to V-Day, or, to those old school SMC writing center vets, VD-Day, I have to rant.
Why, in the name of God, would I want to spend well over $100 for a bunch of flowers that are going to die and wither away and be completely forgotten in the blink of an eye? Serisouly. I can go to Costco and buy a dozen roses for (get this) $12 dollars! For the mathematically impaired, that equates to one dollar a rose. Some florists would have you beleive that the current exchange rate for one of these botanical beauties is one kidney per rose.
They're flowers people! Come on. Seriously. I can buy a dozen roses, a nice necklace, a box of chocolates AND take my fiance out to dinner for a price tag that still slips under what some places charge for a dozen FANCY roses. And yeah yeah yeah, I know that an expensive dinner would cost a lot and be digested and gone faster than roses die, but really, the idea of spending a lot of money on flowers annoys me to no end. Why? Because they serve no other purpose other than just being there. I mean, you drop $200 to have some snotty French waiter bring you silly little plates with the vegetables arranged as if they're supposed to be art, and you get to not only enjoy the taste of the food (and for that kind of money it had best be tasting damned good), but on a very basic level you get nutritional sustenance. Same thing with candy (sort of). Liquor has been proven to lower cholesterol (or something along those lines). But what do flowers give us? Just enjoyment, and that's all. So really, for something that sits there and does nothing but die, you tell me why I should send ridiculous sums of money. I mean, I'm all for flowers, but good lord people, talk about a waste of hard earned cash.
That is all.
Why, in the name of God, would I want to spend well over $100 for a bunch of flowers that are going to die and wither away and be completely forgotten in the blink of an eye? Serisouly. I can go to Costco and buy a dozen roses for (get this) $12 dollars! For the mathematically impaired, that equates to one dollar a rose. Some florists would have you beleive that the current exchange rate for one of these botanical beauties is one kidney per rose.
They're flowers people! Come on. Seriously. I can buy a dozen roses, a nice necklace, a box of chocolates AND take my fiance out to dinner for a price tag that still slips under what some places charge for a dozen FANCY roses. And yeah yeah yeah, I know that an expensive dinner would cost a lot and be digested and gone faster than roses die, but really, the idea of spending a lot of money on flowers annoys me to no end. Why? Because they serve no other purpose other than just being there. I mean, you drop $200 to have some snotty French waiter bring you silly little plates with the vegetables arranged as if they're supposed to be art, and you get to not only enjoy the taste of the food (and for that kind of money it had best be tasting damned good), but on a very basic level you get nutritional sustenance. Same thing with candy (sort of). Liquor has been proven to lower cholesterol (or something along those lines). But what do flowers give us? Just enjoyment, and that's all. So really, for something that sits there and does nothing but die, you tell me why I should send ridiculous sums of money. I mean, I'm all for flowers, but good lord people, talk about a waste of hard earned cash.
That is all.