The Mother's Day Flower Fiasco

Okay so get this.

I had flowers ordered for Mother’s Day. I ordered them well in advance so mother could get some tulips. She loves tulips and I wanted to remind her of our trip to Holland when I was younger. They were supposed to be delivered on Saturday unless I wanted to pay $24 more for a Sunday delivery (I did not). Anyway, Sunday morning comes and no email from mother saying she had gotten the flowers. Finally in the afternoon I catch her online and say, Um, so you didn't get any deliveries? And she said, no..should I have? And I said, yeah. She checked her front porch again but there was nothing and not even a note.

Hmm. So I call the company I use for the flower delivery and they say that they had gotten confirmation on Saturday that the flowers were about to go out. So company calls the florist. Now mother gets a call from the florist because the florist had delivered the flowers.

So what happened was that the florist accidentally delivered to 108 South Washington instead of 108 North Washington. Now before I go further, you have to understand the deal. Sometimes people get confused with mother's address. I'm not really sure why... I mean north surely is clearly different from south, but whatever. People sometimes mix up the addresses. This has happened before actually with the current resident of 108 South Washington. In fact, during Christmas when Brook and I sent some packages to mother for Christmas, the post office accidently delivered a few of them to South Washington. And even mother had a package mailed to herself that was delivered to South Washington. Luckily mother tracked the package and everyone had it shown as delivered so they figured that it had been delivered to South Washington. The post master goes to South Washington to inquire and guess what? This chick had opened up our Christmas presents, one of which was a DVD, was plopped on the couch watching our DVD!!!!! Can you believe that? The cheek! Anyway the post office felt bad and paid for a new unwrapped DVD for mother which was nice and we got the rest of our stuff back. So given this as a background, the horror of finding out that mother's flowers had been delivered to the same chick. And obviously this chick does not have the track record of returning things that are not hers.

So it was confirmed by the florist that they had delivered to the South Washington address. And no peep from her trying to track down whose flowers they are, even though there was a card addressed to mother saying Happy Mother’s Day Love from Brook and Anne.

So the florist feels really bad, but they are now out of tulips (because the chick at 108 South Washington took our tulips) and she has to do another arrangement. I was livid. The florist was very accomodating and as you can see made a huge arrangement with more flowers for mother for free (to replace the tulips that were delivered to that horrible little woman down the way).

So I tell mother to give me the telephone number of the woman at South Washington that I'm gong to call her up and tell her to give back mother's tulips. Mother wont' do that but says maybe she will walk down there... She actually talks to a police person (mother of course is on good terms with all of them) and tells her the situation... that it has been confirmed that the flowers were delivered to her and this is not the first time she has tried to keep our stuff. So the police woman goes down there and talks to the chick.

So evidently what happened was the chick keeps the flowers (obviously). Her boyfriend comes over. The chick gives mother's tulips to her boyfriend who gives them to His Mother for mother’s day yesterday!!!! Can you believe the cheek! So the police woman said that the rightful owner wanted her flowers (surprise) and made the boyfriend go back to his mother's house and get OUR flowers back from his mother (can you imagine) so mother can get her flowers. Unbelievable!!! If this woman hadn’t already done this before with 2 or 3 other things that were delivered there accidently, perhaps I wouldn’t get *as* worked up. But by God if she’s going to take the an expensive arrangement I paid for and pretend that she bought it!

Mother and I agree that we feel bad for the boyfriend's mother. Obviously she knows now that the flowers were not bought for her and her son pretended that he had. Supposedly the boyfriend says he didn’t know where the flowers came from (I'm sure) and apologized to the police. Anyway, I’m sure his mother is making him feel guilty. He gave his cell phone number to the police for mother to call so he can apologize.

Anyway, that was the saga yesterday. I suppose the upside is that mother gets two arrangements for the price of one! Here is a picture of the latest arrangement + the recuperated tulips. Anyway, justice has been done and all is well that ends well. The End