@Jerry That is how any woman with a lick of common sense should react to being given already dead flowers as a gift! But the florists have done a wonderful job of marketing the idea that one simply must send flowers on special occasions.

Funny thing is, from the time I was old enough to know what a florist was, I always kind of thought they were the scum of the earth because they essentially made money off of people's tragedies and sense of obligation. Of course I would not have phrased it that way back then, I just knew that I didn't think much of them. Maybe it was some baggage from a previous lifetime, who knows? But at probably 4 or 5 years old I just knew I didn't like florists!