I couldn't believe it

[Bella_Vixen]

I was wandering around work doing something vitally important (but I can't remember what it was), when I ended up back at the registers for some reason.

My first customer has a bouquet of flowers is his hand. He tells me that he just bought them, but "she doesn't want them."

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this nice guy bought his SO a lovely bouquet of roses and carnations, and she MADE him return them.

He just seemed so sad.

I was shocked.

[Becks]

Wow.

That's so sad.

Especially since even though I'm engaged I KNOW I'm not getting flowers tomorrow.

No card, either.

Hell, I'll be lucky if the man of the household remembers tomorrow's Valentine's Day.
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Big sis, I thought the guy was going to give the flowers to YOU.

[Broomjockey]

Sounds to me like someone's getting broken up with soon, if she doesn't want flowers enought to make him return them.

[Lingering Grin]

Or she's like me and thinks that Valentine's day is a load of crap, or that giving someone dead plants as a present doesn't really make sense...

[Gurndigarn]

Or she's like me and thinks that Valentine's day is a load of crap, or that giving someone dead plants as a present doesn't really make sense...

My wife is happier when I stick plant seeds in the dirt for her.

[Geek King]

Ouch! Poor guy!

But it sounds like he needs to stop being a doormat. What kind of person, male or female, treats a gift like that. Not one I'd want to date.

[ShinyGreenApple]

While I would hardly be thrilled at the idea that someone spent an unholy (IMO) amount of money for dead plants to give me, I would accept them anyways, and dammit, I'd be grateful! It's the thought and sentiments behind the act that count, right?

I'm all sad for that guy now

[Broomjockey]

Or she's like me and thinks that Valentine's day is a load of crap, or that giving someone dead plants as a present doesn't really make sense...

Yeah, but would you crush the poor soul like that, when it's someone you're supposedly caring about? I'd think that if you were in a relationship, you'd have made your position clear before the day, and so it wouldn't have happened, this just screams "impending break-up."

To me, doesn't matter if she thought V-Day was crap and cut flowers are the stupidest thing ever, you don't shit on your other when they do something well-intentioned for you. You take the kind thought, and then bring it up later and say "Please don't give me dead things anymore" or make a random, vitrolic rant about Valentine's Day.

[Rubyred]

I bet she's the same woman who would talk s**t about him when he doesn't get her anything.

[Sparky]

Is it too much to hope that he didn't know about her terrible allergies?

Or maybe she's just worried that he's stalking her.

[Rapscallion]

Reminds me of when a lass who worked at another shop on the parade bought a flower arrangement for her parents. The parents brought it back and demanded the money back because some of the flowers were 'dead'. They were referring to the statis - a dried flower.

She was furious with them.

Rapscallion

[auntiem]

I feel sad for the guy, but if the gal wasn't his girlfriend and she had no romantic feelings for him then she did the right thing. I think it is cruel to allow someone to give you romantic gifts when you are just stringing them along. If she was his girlfriend then that is just mean to make him take them back.
My SO is getting me a heart shaped pizza tonight - you can bet I won't make him take it back.

[Seshat]

Terrible allergies are the only valid reason I can think of for refusing a well-meant gift from your SO.

And even then, you can give them to someone. One of your mothers or grandmothers. Or go to the local retirement home and get the staff to give them to someone who never gets visitors. Or give them to the staff at your local ER. Or something!

[PepperElf]

My SO is getting me a heart shaped pizza tonight - you can bet I won't make him take it back.

omg i want one of those too...they have them this month at the gaijin club i go to. we just haven't had a good chance to go out for it.

[Becks]

Damn...I've never had a heart-shaped pizza before.