Dead flowers
My ipod got here this morning via FedEx. It's so little and cute and green!
Claudia and I were talking this morning about something I was reminded of a few days ago. In 2000, a very good friend of hers died in a train accident. It was pretty devastating to Claudia. He, like Claudia at the time, was only 23 years old, and he and Claudia had been quite close in high school.
My sister Olivia and I were living in California, and we knew how sad Claudia was. We decided to send her flowers.
So we went online to 1-800-Flowers and I put in my credit card information and we sent her a nice funeral bouquet. We wanted her to know that we were thinking of her.
The thing about 1-800-Flowers, at that time anyways, is that they send the flowers FedEx. And there was some sort of screw up. And the flowers got there three days later than anticipated. We didn't know because we figured she was so distracted by her grief that she'd forgotten to call us and thank us for the flowers.
So Claudia is at work, and she's still pretty much out of it, and someone at work hands her a very battered and somewhat soggy FedEx box. She dully opens it, and inside there's a pretty vase full of dead and/or rotting flowers, and she can't tell who it's from because the card has rotted through. She called 1-800-Flowers to ask who on earth would send her dead flowers and why? Was it some sort of funeral ritual she didn't know about? Was it a sick joke? Did someone hate her that much? 1-800-Flowers pointed her in our direction.
It took everyone a little while to figure out what happened, but eventually 1-800 Flowers FedExed her another bouquet. Those flowers were alive.
I don't know if they still FedEx flowers. I've never used 1-800 Flowers again.
Claudia and I were talking this morning about something I was reminded of a few days ago. In 2000, a very good friend of hers died in a train accident. It was pretty devastating to Claudia. He, like Claudia at the time, was only 23 years old, and he and Claudia had been quite close in high school.
My sister Olivia and I were living in California, and we knew how sad Claudia was. We decided to send her flowers.
So we went online to 1-800-Flowers and I put in my credit card information and we sent her a nice funeral bouquet. We wanted her to know that we were thinking of her.
The thing about 1-800-Flowers, at that time anyways, is that they send the flowers FedEx. And there was some sort of screw up. And the flowers got there three days later than anticipated. We didn't know because we figured she was so distracted by her grief that she'd forgotten to call us and thank us for the flowers.
So Claudia is at work, and she's still pretty much out of it, and someone at work hands her a very battered and somewhat soggy FedEx box. She dully opens it, and inside there's a pretty vase full of dead and/or rotting flowers, and she can't tell who it's from because the card has rotted through. She called 1-800-Flowers to ask who on earth would send her dead flowers and why? Was it some sort of funeral ritual she didn't know about? Was it a sick joke? Did someone hate her that much? 1-800-Flowers pointed her in our direction.
It took everyone a little while to figure out what happened, but eventually 1-800 Flowers FedExed her another bouquet. Those flowers were alive.
I don't know if they still FedEx flowers. I've never used 1-800 Flowers again.