I drove past a van the other day that had signage that described the business as ‘freelance florist.’ Not sure what that is at all. Mind you, being a florist is an odd profession anyway. This is a job that mostly involves cutting down perfectly good flowers, removing them from their environment and then selling them in shops, knowing full well that the product you are asking people to pay for will be dead in a week or so and have to be thrown out! And florists get away with this still! Selling something that they know will not last... oh, and wrap it up in fancy paper with bows too, just to add to the deception!
I guess it's a bit like the Christmas tree trade. You know, cut down perfectly healthy trees that would look much better remaining on a hillside with their own natural decoration - snow, morning dew, dripping rain drops - and sell them to people to stick in their front rooms, cover them in glitzy baubles and then watch them shrivel over a two week period before chucking them in the trash! And people complain about what we do to the environment!
As for flowers, I blame the mugs that buy the product and do it time and again! How many times do you deliberately buy a non-essential product that you know will be useless in a week? No, never!
And to add to the stupidity, people give flowers as gifts! “I bought you these,” they say but fail to add, “they’ll be useless this time next week and you’ll have to chuck ‘em out.” What sort of gift is that? Beats me!
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