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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
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3:55p - Stick that Hybrid tea up your--
People that grow a lot of roses are often called Rose-mad. Well, over at the Garden web forums, rose growers hang out and debate the finer points of spraying versus organic, old garden roses versus hybrid teas, and big box stores versus small family owned nurseries.
Enter AKchicago. Long story short, she ordered four gallon size roses from an unrevealed family nursery, and paid extra money for the increased shipping costs. 78$, to be precise. Her roses arrived, except one of them had some broken canes. She emails the owner and the owner agrees to replace the damaged rose. When the OP calls back to follow up a couple weeks later, the owner FREAKS.
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Various posters chime in with such gems as,
It sounds like a MAJOR PMS problem to me. If you don't get your replacement rose soon, I'd let everyone what company this is. She sure doesn't need to be on the phone with someone like me and come unglued like she did. A bad name for a rose supplier is hard for them to get over.-- Ken SEFL
It sounds like the person you were dealing with has emotional or psychiatric issues that affects her differently from day to day. Perhaps she needs medication. I'm not trying to be mean in saying that, I just know that is the way things are for some people.--Katiekind
However, all is not well. Michealalreadytaken, a well respected poster has this to say:
It sounds like one of several things:
1) You're dealing with someone with a low IQ.
2) You're dealing with someone who ultimately answers to someone else with a different agenda.
3) You're dealing with someone who has a cash flow problem.
Regardless, you're not crazy--not even close. People pull stunts like this all the time--and yes--they always act like it's somehow your fault--and yes, it is disappointing.
I just hope you get your rose.
I wouldn't hold my breath though.
MichaelAT
Trospero, another well known poster fires back: Thats bordering on slanderous, IMO. Was that really necessary???
It quickly spirals down into a grumpy-old-man off, with many capslocked, GOOD DAY SIR!s, and seething comments disguised as politeness. A few posters try and recapture the sanity (this is about PLANTS for God's sake,) until this gem:
Patricia43--I have no idea who the vendor was but I think it should be stated here because we have tried and found guilty someone who has not even had an opportunity to state if the presentation here is accurate or not. There has only been one side. If either of you is ever on a jury, God have mercy on the soul of the accused, because you will have made up your minds after only hearing the charges, not the case.
But wait! MichealAT wants us all to know that Trospero is in league with the rose business!. (Which most of us noseyrosers know already, having purchased his roses at The Uncommon Rose.
Apparently, rosarians are just full of compost! Still, no wank would be complete without the requisite plea "Can't we all just get along?"
current mood: On Top of the World (40 comments |comment on this)
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4:25p - You, out of my (non)religious affiliation!
Oh, man. Over in the _discussion community on LJ, some dude called ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) nicknoble (have I seen this guy wanking somewhere before?) posts about Jack Kevorkian's release from prison.
ghostrider then decides to come by and stir up shit, and even brings over a posse from the atheism community to join the fray. Much wank and profound misunderstanding of the scientific method on both sides of the argument ensues.
(And in case anyone checks out ghostrider's LJ and is concerned by all the references to highschool, I checked. I'm sad to say that dude is, in fact, 18.)
current mood: *sigh* (25 comments |comment on this)
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