I have two friends in
Toronto, a married couple called Paul and Imogen, people i've known
for forty years. I've stayed with them a few times over the years
when i've visited Hogtown and they are wonderful, eccentric and
highly-evolved, and both very dear to me.
Anyway, the thing is, it's Imogen's 70th birthday next week and there's a big beano being held for her on Saturday which, unfortunately, i won't be able to attend. So i decided to send her some flowers.
I haven't sent flowers
to anyone since i've lived in this small Southwestern Ontario town,
and i didn't know where to begin. There simply aren't many florists
here and those i tried either couldn't or wouldn't. I Googled
Interflora, but they don't seem to have a Canadian branch. (I couldn't find one, anyway,,,,)
At a bit of a loss to
know what to do, i asked Roxanne at work – cos she's a girl and
should know about flowers and schtuff – and she told me that the
floral department at the local supermarket can do it for me. Eureka!
Or so i thought. But
they don't do out of town deliveries. But at least the man made a
constructive suggestion: order online at
https://www.tidysflowers.com/
So i did. It was a
pretty tedious process as i don't have an account with them – why
would i? -- but i finally arranged everything and was on the verge of
hitting “place order now” when didn't the @%$!*&$ laptop
crash! Argh, fuck me blind, why me, etc.
So i had to start all
over again. Which i did, submitted to the tedious process all over
again, and actually managed to place the order: $107 worth of
anthuriums (anthuria?). Yikes! Flowers are expensive!
And then Victor, from
Tidy's Flowers 'phoned me. They would like to have Imogen's telephone
number in case of any difficulties. Why is my life so difficult? I know i
have the number here somewhere but it's tricky when, with my
shambolic file system, virtually everything's under M for
Miscellaneous. I couldn't find it.... Eventually i messaged a mutual
friend, got the number, and called Tidy's, so now all should be good.
Enjoy the ease of
online ordering, they say. It's fun, they say. I need a drink.
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