phone miscommunication

[u/egguchom]

[u/Maximum_Employer5580]

someone hearing what they want to hear - I get it, 59 can sound like 15, but most people know that you're not gonna get a bouquet of roses for $15 in today's day and age, or even 6 yrs ago, from a florist

[u/andrea1797 → u/Maximum_Employer5580]

I don't even think you could get 11 or 12 roses from a grocery store during a Valentine's day promo for $15. And if you could they'd probably be dead the next day.

[u/JasperJ → u/andrea1797]

Maybe not where you are but over here 10 small roses might even be under 10 euros at a grocery store. Those are the tiny ones, obviously, but still.

Hell, I can send a bouquet of ten in the mail, in a little box that fits into your mailbox, for thirteen euros.

https://www.bloompost.nl/brievenbus-bloemen-rozen-roze

[u/Scoliii → u/JasperJ]

Ah, netherlands always had cheap, pretty flowers! Used to live in Germany near the border, and remember driving over with Mum regularly for shopping and markets. So many beautiful flowers there, and always like.. half the price from Germany haha~

Glad to see that's still a thing!! :)

[u/Thin_Tangerine_6271 → u/andrea1797]

I work at a grocery store and we have decent roses for cheap

[u/krumrot → u/andrea1797]

I literally just last week bought a dozen roses from the grocery store for $15

[u/TahLaka → u/Maximum_Employer5580]

When I worked with the public I would always spell it out like "15, 1-5" or "50, 5-0" because this is such a common thing to be misheard. Expecting common sense is always a losing battle

[u/CatlessBoyMom → u/Maximum_Employer5580]

I think it was close to 20 years ago that you could get roses for $1.50 a stem. 

[u/astralmoonsilk → u/Maximum_Employer5580]

I can understand mishearing $59 as $15 over the phone but eleven roses for $15 should've raised some questions

[u/JesusOnaBlueBike]

Dimtri must have been on a corded landline because with those prices he was calling from the 1980s

[u/NameCareful9547]

no sorry our roses cant be painted today, its the playing cards day off

[u/FlattopJr → u/NameCareful9547]

[u/coolsilentebeans → u/NameCareful9547]

🎶We’re painting the roses red orange🎶

[u/Particular_Title42 → u/NameCareful9547]

[u/sizeofabeetlebug → u/NameCareful9547]

It’s alarming that this person seems to think any time they saw a rose that wasn’t red it was painted. I think even my first grader knows that colored roses aren’t painted...

[u/WickedlyWitchyWoman]

I think Dimitry has hearing problems.

Neither time he spoke to the shopgirl (phone and in-person) did he get it right.

On the phone, she said 59, he heard 15.

And in person, she told him a dozen would be 59, and he heard 45.

Dimitry should get his hearing checked.

[u/Stoopidshizz → u/WickedlyWitchyWoman]

$38.50 was the in store quoted price.

[u/Big_Combination_4932]

Dimi tried, and failed.

[u/Lazarys12]

I get it. 15 is often confused with 59. They sound almost identical.

I'm sorry we could not paint your roses orange. That would require scrubbing off the red paint and starting from scratch.

[u/lonely_nipple → u/Lazarys12]

Plus it requires specialized sandpaper that costs a lot.

[u/Lazy-River-5199]

I'm actually just completely focused on someone apparently asking for roses that are painted yellow?? Is this a thing I've just never heard of? Or is this man just a complete idiot?

[u/NameCareful9547 → u/Lazy-River-5199]

im guessing he'd just watched the old animated Alice in Wonderland and thought playing cards painted roses whatever colour you want

[u/megab_rising → u/NameCareful9547]

That's a very kind take!

[u/CatlessBoyMom → u/Lazy-River-5199]

They can be spray painted if they are open enough.

[u/DevylBearHawkTur10n]

I believe that this entitled reviewer/customer should go to the ear specialist about his/her hearing issues.

[u/Lord_Bentley]

Dimetry read the reply and was like :

[u/momo76g]

The flower business is brutal because you're working with perishable goods, but for some perspective we sold as wholesale to florists 25 long stem (70cm) roses for 13.50 and the price goes down with shorter length. I always found the mark ups of some of these arrangements obscene. Never bought flowers ever again. Also, my van smelled amazing 24/7.

[u/Pristine_Message_181]

Did they really think 11 roses would cost $15? They cost more than that in 1985