Pike Place Market flower merchants work that game 7 days a week.
They work their asses off though. Those two flower shops are owned and run by two different families. They wake up at like 3:30 am to get their business day started. They’re the first generation children of political refugees who fled Laos through Thailand after the Vietnam War
Sure it’s a sweet comment, but the premise is inaccurate and motivations questionable. They weren’t “simply taking a walk”, they were purchasing flowers. And the person that gave the compliment has a financial conflict of interest. Their opinion on the matter shouldn’t just be accepted at face value.
/s
Edit: This is not meant to be taken seriously. Apologies y’all! I deserve all the criticism.
…so? Is this just whooshing me? That sounds like an extremely cynical, transactional take; is someone complementing you at work always just a 3D game theory value proposition to get help on next quarter’s EPS report? This is just a lighthearted wholesomeness community, I really don’t think they were claiming angelic altruistic intent anywhere?
Right? Haha. “They weren’t simply taking a walk they were purchasing flowers” umm akshully you didn’t simply go for a hike you went out for a picnic.
One doesn’t simply walk into a flower shop.
Idk who downvoted you this is clearly a great lotr reference. Anyway now you have 1 vote again
I think it’s fair to bring up since the way the OP post phrases that is a little eyeroll inducing, like the rest of the post is about this unusually gratuitous act of consumerism and feeling good about being complimented on your purchase by a salesperson, and this is all characterized as being part and parcel with a simple walk. And it looks like that person might be from another country and it could be down to language/cultural differences so they deserve some slack, but to me it’s an offputting statement.
So they didn’t go out for a walk without the intent of buying flowers at all? Can you verify this?
Did you forgot to put /s to your comment by any chance?
