One pink hyacinth in a blue bunch... AND IT'S YOUR FAULT!

[Lace Neil Singer]

This is a quickie from the garden centre where I once worked. I worked in Pets, but that didn't stop people from coming to my till with garden or flower returns cuz "The queues are sooo loong down there!" *stops to play the world's smallest violin*

One day, when I might have looked as tho I wasn't doing much but was in fact filling out an order form, this woman came and started immediately screaming at me. I tried to get her to calm down, but to no avail. Eventually, it seemed to get thru to her that I couldn't understand a word she said with her running all her words together.

The crux of the problem was that the previous year she'd bought some hyacinth bulbs from our usual "pick and mix" bulbs; the bulbs were in separate boxes and clearly labeled, but someone, probably an SC who couldn't be bothered to put it back in the correct box, had dropped a pink one in the blue box. This woman had bought a load and planted them, and now there was a single pink hyacinth among her bed of blues.

Now, rather than just shrugging and saying, "Whatever," and pulling up the pink flower, this woman instead chose to come in and blast the first staff member she came accross, demanding a refund for the whole bed. At that point, I called the manager to get her out of my hair so I could finish my order sheet. Even today, I'm still confused as to what the problem was. O_o

[Peppergirl]

Now, rather than just shrugging and saying, "Whatever," and pulling up the pink flower, this woman instead chose to come in and blast the first staff member she came accross, demanding a refund for the whole bed. At that point, I called the manager to get her out of my hair so I could finish my order sheet. Even today, I'm still confused as to what the problem was. O_o

10 bucks says the manager gave in to her just to shut her up?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Nope, cuz the boss was a stinge and would have torn him a new one. XD I think he eventually offered to refund her for the one bulb; but don't know what happened after that. I'm betting tho that she pitched a fit and stormed out.

[mariamousie1]

Geez, calm down, psycho lady. Who says everything has to be the same colour and different colours are bad? Hitler, that's who.

[RetailWorkhorse]

a single pink hyacinth among her bed of blues.

What a lovely idea, I think I may do that!

FLOWER: I feel pretty, oh so pretty....

[smileyeagle1021]

you know, i don't think it would be too unreasonable to ask for a refund on the one mis(places/labeled/colored/whatever) bulb, but the whole bed .... that is just over the edge of sanity no matter how you define it.

[rerant]

So what? Pink and blue flowers look nice together.
She got a gem if you ask me.

[Bank Lady]

you know, i don't think it would be too unreasonable to ask for a refund on the one mis(places/labeled/colored/whatever) bulb, but the whole bed .... that is just over the edge of sanity no matter how you define it.

I agree. I had a friend with OCD. I guarantee she would have had a problem with one flower being the wrong color. She never would have gone off on an employee about it though. That's a whole lot of crazy if you ask me.

[Dark Psion]

Back when I worked at a nursery, we had a customer that we planted over 500 white tulips.

A few months later she was calling to complain that the tulips were not white, but were yellowish/ white.

I pointed out to her that they were yellowish because they have not yet officially "Bloomed" and once they did they would be snow white.

This is the same customer that had us move some trees we planted about two feet to the left.

[AnqeiicDemise]

When I was working the Garden Center at the Bullseye, I had a lady come to my lane with these gorgeous blue flowers (I forget the name right now). She said she was buying them because hers had turned pink mysteriously. Since she was being nice about it, I decided to tell her why--

Those particular flowers change color depending on the acidic level of the earth its planted in. The higher the acid, the more blue it was going to be-- the less there was, it'd be pink. She just grinned and thought it was trippy and went on to say that she'd have to experiment so's to have a half-pink, half-blue flower bed.


I can't only imagine how stupid the SC would have felt if she'd reacted as your SC had.

"I'm sorry, m'am, but its up to you to maintain the acid levels in your flower bed to maintain the right shade of blue."

[Sliceanddice]

What a lovely idea, I think I may do that!

FLOWER: I feel pretty, oh so pretty....

*had the same thought and is sad she was beaten to it*

[Lace Neil Singer]

I'm dying here right now at that thought. That's going to cheer me up for a while now. XD

[Amethyst Hunter]

I'd just be glad that all the bulbs actually bloomed. XD Hyacinths smell gooooooooood.

[Antisocial_Worker]

Those particular flowers change color depending on the acidic level of the earth its planted in. The higher the acid, the more blue it was going to be-- the less there was, it'd be pink. She just grinned and thought it was trippy and went on to say that she'd have to experiment so's to have a half-pink, half-blue flower bed.

Hydrangeas? I hear you can turn pink ones blue again by layering pine needles or pine mulch around the spot where you've planted them. Those are some tough flowers. My parents live in an old house with some hydrangea bushes planted along one side. They've been there so long, and their roots are so tough that they've flipped the sidewalk up on its side along there, like freakin' oak tree roots or something.