Well that went a bit wrong

monofin

Feeling a bit romantic I decided to do something for Valentine's this year.

Order the wife a single rose in a vase.

Delivery arranged for today. DPD driver carefully handed her the package this afternoon.

Queue phone call at work:

"thanks for the rose. Unfortunately they've sent the stem and flower as 2 separate pieces (a bit like a Les Paul then)"

So......... I've effectively sent the wife a dead rose for valentine's. Just glad the sofa's comfy

Nikko

Maybe DPD was the actual culprit behind all the stories where people receive an animal head in the post...

breakstuff

Aldi is your friend.Be quick and you may still be on for a bit of how's your father.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/100-roses-for-25-aldi-available-instore-from-11th-feb-2612276

Sporky

Say it's a kit.

So you've bought her a flower and an activity.

Ravenous

monofin said:

"thanks for the rose. Unfortunately they've sent the stem and flower as 2 separate pieces (a bit like a Les Paul then)"

Surely there's a man here who knows how to fix a headstock break!

scrumhalf

Ravenous said:

monofin said:

"thanks for the rose. Unfortunately they've sent the stem and flower as 2 separate pieces (a bit like a Les Paul then)"

Surely there's a man here who knows how to fix a headstock break!

Are you sure it's only his headstock that'll get broken?

monofin

Disaster averted with a quick visit to Asda on the way home from work. And once I've got the refund I'm £20 better off

monofin

Sporky said:

Say it's a kit.

So you've bought her a flower and an activity.

Love this. Tried it and at least it raised a smile

57Deluxe

just send her this link... that'll sort it

Teetonetal

Couriering a single rose? That should be a crime against the planet. What a waste of, well, almost everything.

professorben

Teetonetal said:

Couriering a single rose? That should be a crime against the planet. What a waste of, well, almost everything.

A sentiment also shared by the delivery driver we can assume. 

CabbageCat

Teetonetal said:

Couriering a single rose? That should be a crime against the planet. What a waste of, well, almost everything.

I guess I shouldn't mention that I showed my loved one my affection by taking a week off work to slowly drown a giant panda cub in single malt whisky.

Myranda

CabbageCat said:

Teetonetal said:

Couriering a single rose? That should be a crime against the planet. What a waste of, well, almost everything.

I guess I shouldn't mention that I showed my loved one my affection by taking a week off work to slowly drown a giant panda cub in single malt whisky.

Depends... did you courier the malt whisky with the Panda or separately ?

DLM

CabbageCat said:

Teetonetal said:

Couriering a single rose? That should be a crime against the planet. What a waste of, well, almost everything.

I guess I shouldn't mention that I showed my loved one my affection by taking a week off work to slowly drown a giant panda cub in single malt whisky.

Wow, I'll put that in the "You never know who you know" thread! I never knew @CabbageCat and Chris "I’d eat the last panda" Packham were an item! http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dont-stop-panda-extinction-says-420193

breakstuff

CabbageCat said:

Teetonetal said:

Couriering a single rose? That should be a crime against the planet. What a waste of, well, almost everything.

I guess I shouldn't mention that I showed my loved one my affection by taking a week off work to slowly drown a giant panda cub in single malt whisky.

That's despicable behavior.


What a waste if whisky.

DLM

breakstuff said:

CabbageCat said:

Teetonetal said:

Couriering a single rose? That should be a crime against the planet. What a waste of, well, almost everything.

I guess I shouldn't mention that I showed my loved one my affection by taking a week off work to slowly drown a giant panda cub in single malt whisky.

That's despicable behavior.


What a waste if whisky.

He was waterboarding the panda as punishment for making sake comments.

CabbageCat

DLM said:

breakstuff said:

CabbageCat said:

Teetonetal said:

Couriering a single rose? That should be a crime against the planet. What a waste of, well, almost everything.

I guess I shouldn't mention that I showed my loved one my affection by taking a week off work to slowly drown a giant panda cub in single malt whisky.

That's despicable behavior.


What a waste if whisky.

He was waterboarding the panda as punishment for making sake comments.

"Sake" is tricky for written jokes. I made some rank homebrew rice wine called, "For F*ck's Sake" and only about a third of people got the joke without me having to read it out for them.

Edit: Yours would have been funnier if pandas came from Japan.

mart

CabbageCat said:

.... I made some rank homebrew rice wine called, "For F*ck's Sake" ....

Was it an aphrodisiac?

fretmeister

I got MrsF 2 of these.

DLM

CabbageCat said:

"Sake" is tricky for written jokes. I made some rank homebrew rice wine called, "For F*ck's Sake" and only about a third of people got the joke without me having to read it out for them.

Edit: Yours would have been funnier if pandas came from Japan.

Of course. I was just LOL-whoring. I got three for that gag, none for the Chris Packham jibe. I'm OK with that. :shrug:

speshul91

fretmeister said:

I got MrsF 2 of these.

Mrs s would have genuinely loved one of those.