Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccsu3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!taylor From: taylor@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Interesting perspective on flowers as the ideal gift.... Message-ID: <2148@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 13:58:24 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.2148 Posted: Sun Aug 5 13:58:24 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 03:28:35 EDT Organization: University of California at San Diego Lines: 24 I often give friends (read female friends) flowers as they are ideal as a gift - they are beautiful, they bring a piece of the outdoors indoor, they have instrinsic 'life' for a while, they die (more in a sec) and they are 'cheap'.... Dying is actually an advantage, as how many times have you been given some stupid thing or the other, and had to have it HANG around forever? Flowers have a natural life span of a few days to a week, and then, without any guilt, they become composte. Cheapwise, hey, why spend lots of money, when the very IDEA of giving someone something is what is significant? In fact, the best type of flowers to give are those that you have gotten yourself! Try giving someone a bunch of wildflowers and a stolen rose or two from someones garden (ha ha)....pretty cheerful thing to do for zero dollars! Chocolates, on the other hand, suck. :-) Life savers REALLY suck! :-) Just a thought. Dave Taylor