Someone recently wrote about odd requests or odd guests on this platform. Now I can't find it.
A couple is coming next week; sent the usual blah-blah-blah message about how to get here, what are your food allergies, yada yada yada.
The guy is from a Latin American country and that's mad cool because I like it when my peeps come to my house. The iPod playlist gets really, really interesting.
Anyway, Mr. Guest asked if I would pick up some flowers to put in the room for Mrs. Guest with a note and her name on it. Mr. Guest specified what flowers he wanted.
What the Frigg??? Really???
So now the question was, who is expected to pay for this?
I didn't know how to come out and ask that question without seeming like a letch, so I wrote this:
Not a problem. How much do you want to spend? For $15, I can get something from a grocery store that I can put in a vase that will look rather elegant, for $50 I can get a little basket from a florist that looks pretty tacky in my opinion, or you can go hog wild and spend way more than that on a full-blown arrangement which will become a pain in the butt for you to take home.
He wrote back: the grocery store is fine as simpler arrangements are more in line with Mrs. Guest. Send me a cash for $50. You should be reimbursed for your time and gasoline.
BINGO..... some people really DO get it!
