Monday, February 16, 2009
By the Way / Hannan Pushing Daisies: Flower Shops in the Red, Just Not on Valentine's Day
Posted by Caleb Hannan on Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:52 AM
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The semantic argument over whether we're in a recession or depression won't soon be settled. To paraphrase Newton's Third Law of Motion: For every Chicken Little, there is an equal and opposite Pollyanna.
But on one issue, both sides can agree: If you're in a flower shop on Valentine's Day, it'd take a Class V Pessimist to think of our economic climate as being anything but, well, rosy.
Take Emma's Flowers on West End, for example.
I went in to pick up my Rote Display of Thoughtfulness around two on Saturday afternoon. Along with no less than a half-dozen backwards-hat wearing Vandy dudes (bless their hearts). Wanting to know if this meant roses were recession-proof, I asked an Emma's veteran if business was still booming. Turns out Channel Five beat me to the punch.
"We just had a news crew come in and ask the same thing," she said. "So I'll tell you what I told them: We've been hit as hard as anyone. But in the last week, it's been as busy as ever."
Busy as ever translates to 10,000 roses sold in the three days before Valentine's. Not bad for a re-seshhhhh...ummmm. De-preshhhh...uhhhhh. Oh, who cares? Times are tough!
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Did someone tell you to turn something in by 11 am and you started at 10:45? This is barely coherent.
Learn to write.
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