Mama Kat's Prompt Day: The Scolding
Today's prompt topic is: "Write about a time you were scolded…as an adult ." A dozen horrible memories from my flower shop days of "scoldings" immediately popped into my head. There was a doozy in particular I'm going to share. First, I have to explain a couple things for you to get the proper picture of the rules floral designers live by. The flower shop I worked in was a Teleflora member. That means if someone anywhere orders a Teleflora arrangement, whether online or from a book in a store, I, as the floral designer, had to make exactly that arrangement, as closely as my supplies and flowers would allow. A member flower shop can be heavily fined for not keeping this rule. Many times the receiver of said Teleflora design wouldn't like it---because people tend to pick pictures based on their own tastes, not those of their friend or relative. It was shop policy, though, to replace any arrangement with something the customer preferred of equal v...