1 800 Flowers

It can be so hard to figure out what to get your girlfriend on valentines day. Even though I had been dating mine for almost 12 years, it was still hard to shop for her. I felt like I hardly know her at all. All I knew was that she did not want to spend valentines day watching football, and that she expected me to get her something. It didn't help that last valentines day, I was across the country. She was in Washington D.C. And I was in California. I had forgotten to pick something out for her and it was getting down to the line as they say in football. I decided to order from 1 800 flowers. Every girl loves flowers, even a special girl like mine.

It is important to call ahead of time. Whether you’re ordering her 1 800 flowers, the company needs time to ship them out to their destination. Anyway, if you are like me, you do not know much about flowers. They are not exactly the most exciting topic, especially if you would rather watch sports. So I was, naturally worried, and like a big dope, I waited until almost the last minute to call 1 800 flowers. The ordering company was swamped with business, and I had to wait on hold for almost an hour before they picked up and took my order. Fortunately, they were playing some of my favorite music. I got to hear both Phil Collins and Enya, and the soft lulling tones reminded me of how much I loved my girl, my very own sweetest.

I ordered her a bouquet of roses. Some guys would try to get something creative. Pansies or tulips of something, but I knew roses were the best. I contemplated just getting her a single rose, surrounded by babies breath, but I didn't want her to think I was proposing to her or something. And anyway, nothing that looked too serious or too cheesy. A bouquet of roses – dark red one – is always the perfect gift.

When she got the 1 800 flowers order, she immediately called me. She was practically overjoyed, she couldn't believe her good luck. It even came with a little card she described for me in detail. It had a shiny heart wrapped in lace and pine boughs and said “To Shelly, from Stan”, exactly the one I would have picked out. I guess I was not thinking of marriage at the time, but when I saw how happy my flowers from 1 800 flowers had made her, I broke down and surprised both of us and proposed. Well, that made things awkward for a while, but we are still dating, and she loved the flowers. Anyway, we both had a good laugh over it later that week.