Prom night "problem"

[hatredisnotavalue]

Apparently there was a 'problem' prom night for my son and his date and her mom called me Monday morning to let me know about it.

"Hi," she said to me, "I just wanted to let you know that there was a problem Saturday night."

OMG... pregnancy? drinking? bad behavior on the part of my son?

Nope. "The flowers fell off of XXX's corsage. I just thought you should know so that you could call and complain."

His date's Mom is a wicked Republican. The florist was quite taken with my son, having lost her 30 yo son recently in a ATV accident. She went way over the call of duty fitting him for his tux and making him feel comfortable about his "big night"

When I returned his tux, she made a big deal about Tommy and asked if I could email her a picture of him in his tux. No problem I said.

As an aside, she is the only florist in the area and seems to do okay financially. But my daughter's corsage also fell apart too that night.

Should I tell her?

[skygazer]

1. I would tell her

I have a friend who does flowers and I'm sure she'd want to know if there was a problem with any of her stuff. I wouldn't frame it as an accusation but I would let her know.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. I would tell Ms. Bitch that that probably happened several thousand

times over all across the country that night. My corsage fell apart on Homecoming night...as did my daughter's. Most kids aren't slow dancing and things like that happen. :hi:

[bigwillq]

3. I love your response Mrs. G!

:hi: :hug: :yourock:

[hatredisnotavalue]

4. Round two n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Tell her...

"well, yeah, all that fucking they were doing in his bedroom when they were supposed to be at the dance, it's no surprise it fell apart."

[trogdor]

7. You...are...going...to...Hell.

:evilgrin:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Yes, I'm going to fry.

But I'm serious. You only get to live once, and this opportunity only comes along once in a blue moon.

[Mz Pip]

6. If that's the worst thing

that happened to her on Prom Night then she is pretty lucky. :eyes:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[xmas74]

8. Tell her the corsage was beautiful

but fell apart early. She might have been using a different distributor and might not know that there has been a problem w/ the quality.

A small time florist is usually proud of what they have to offer and they love feedback. I've informed my local florist of problems in the past. In one situation I ordered a bouquet for a funeral (the deceased loved carnations and always said they hated "funeral flowers"-her request before she died was bouquets of carnations). I picked them up the night before (the funeral was held far out of town, no where near her business and I wanted to make sure that they arrived). By the next morning they had started to wilt.

I informed the florist in a gentle, polite manner. She immediately rectified the situation by offering me a beautiful flowering plant that could be planted graveside(private cemetery so we could get away w/ it). She also said that was the second complaint that she had about carnations from that specific shipment and that she still had a few left that she would not sell because of the complaints. Maybe your florist had a similar problem?

[Deja Q]

10. Not telling her would hurt her more.

As a person who doesn't get told things respectfully myself, I've felt hurt.

And many issues are due to not treating respectfully, not because of product quality.

I'd say let her know, politely.

[I Have A Dream]

11. I'd tell her, but I'd be really nice about it. n/t