Okay. It’s bad enough that 1-800 Flowers keeps running this commercial to the tune of about 50 kajillion gross rating points, but I keep questioning the sister’s choice of a “cake made of fresh-cut flowers.”
Come on. Buy your brother a nice tie or a shirt. No need to get overly creative with the gift-giving.
This cracks me up. Apparently I’m the reason that American culture is going to hell in a handbasket. I saw that flower cake and thought it was the cutest thing ever, so I sent to it my grandmother on her birthday. She also thought it was adorable, and my mother as well. The three of us blather on about what a clever idea it is.
I haven’t seen the commercial, I saw it on their website about a year ago, so I feel good that I’m on the cutting edge of tacky kitschy essentially useless floral gifts.
I’m sure it’s a great gift for a grandmother, but the guy in the commercial?
Yep, a grandma gift for sure. In fact, it would never occur to me to give flowers to a man unless maybe he was in the hospital (in which case I would most probably go with the fruit or candy or book route) or dead.
Do men like getting flowers? Mr. Del and I never give each other flowers, because we have a cat and it’s more trouble than it’s worth. Mr. Del, as I have mentioned in other threads, is the person who gave me a copy of Evil Dead on our first Valentine’s Day, so I think his ideas of a romantic gift are a little outside of the mainstream to begin with.
When I was in college, I was working on a group project where I was the only female. We had our presentation on Valentine’s Day, so I gave each of them a candy rose. The reactions ranged from “Oh…I didn’t get you anything…” to “What do I look like to you?” until they figured it out. Heehee!