The florist's mistake
Feb. 16th, 2005 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sugarplumkitty... resulted in an absolutely gorgeous bouquet as an apology. They have a new driver this year. He couldn't find the building at HP to drop off the roses. When he got back to the florist, the card had dropped off and they had no idea whose roses they were. I guess when Eric didn't call wanting to know where his roses were, the florist sold them to someone else. They apologized profusely to Eric for not hving red roses and instead made up a bouquet of 17 mixed color roses and filled in around them with tiny purple flowers, sprays of teensy white flowers and ferns. He'd ordered a dozen boxed red roses, which is probably why they had to sell them yesterday. Those little water containers for the stems don't last a full day. These came in a vase with a beautiful valentines ribbon tied in a big bow. He said he got the call to come to the front desk and when he got them back to his office he called the florist to let her know they had arrived. Being Eric, he had to tease her. He said, "The roses got here but there's still one problem."
She sounded worried when she said, "Oh?"
He said, "My arms are tired from carrying them back to my office." She laughed.
When he protested that she didn't need to give us so many roses and the vase because he'd only ordered a boxed dozen, she told him, "But she didn't get her roses yesterday!"
He told her they were both lucky that I'm so understanding.
On his way home last night, the weather was NASTY. He had to hit the brakes hard at one point and the vase swiveled in the box and spilled 96oz of water all over the passenger side of his car. It broke off two of the roses. He knows it was 96oz because he used a 48oz slurpee cup to refill it when he got home. I hope the floor of his car has a drain somewhere!
Today he has the power cable for my laptop at work to repair it. I have a Java lab due today so I took my laptop to VoiceTrax with me. The beginning acting class I've been engineering only needs me about half the time. I also left very early because of the weather. I got to Sausalito in plenty of time. When I set up my laptop it was on battery power. I checked the connections, switched outlets, no power. When I examined the cable there was a crushed place where my recliner had bitten it. I pinched it and it crackled. Suddenly it occurred to me that pinching a live wire between a condenser and my computer probably wasn't a bright thing to do. I immediately unplugged it from the wall and my computer and coiled it up to take home. I tried calling Eric at work to see if he could buy me another one before he left, but he was gone. I decided my best bet was to work out lab 3 on paper and only use the computer when I was ready to try it. The battery only lasts two hours.
When I got home and after hearing the saga of the roses, I showed Eric the cable. He started to scold me until I reminded him he'd done the same thing himself. Our recliners love to bite cables. You think you have them clear and somehow they jump back into the danger zone. First we determined I could use his computer cable; well, when he isn't using his laptop. He left his computer doing some all night job. Hopefully today it's free. I haven't checked yet. For last night, he tore my cable open and figured out the problem. The power wires are the core with a shield around them. The ground wire is woven around the outside of the shield and a plastic coating is on the outside of that. When the chair bit the cable, it cut through part of the outer coating, cut some of the ground wires and they punctured through the shield and shorted the wire. He peeled the outer coating, cut the ground wires at the break and peeled them back. Then he made a loop of the exposed shielded wire and twisted the ground wire together so it was far from the hole in the shield. It worked! Lucky for me the battery in my computer wasn't damaged. Today he's fixing it properly.
She sounded worried when she said, "Oh?"
He said, "My arms are tired from carrying them back to my office." She laughed.
When he protested that she didn't need to give us so many roses and the vase because he'd only ordered a boxed dozen, she told him, "But she didn't get her roses yesterday!"
He told her they were both lucky that I'm so understanding.
On his way home last night, the weather was NASTY. He had to hit the brakes hard at one point and the vase swiveled in the box and spilled 96oz of water all over the passenger side of his car. It broke off two of the roses. He knows it was 96oz because he used a 48oz slurpee cup to refill it when he got home. I hope the floor of his car has a drain somewhere!
Today he has the power cable for my laptop at work to repair it. I have a Java lab due today so I took my laptop to VoiceTrax with me. The beginning acting class I've been engineering only needs me about half the time. I also left very early because of the weather. I got to Sausalito in plenty of time. When I set up my laptop it was on battery power. I checked the connections, switched outlets, no power. When I examined the cable there was a crushed place where my recliner had bitten it. I pinched it and it crackled. Suddenly it occurred to me that pinching a live wire between a condenser and my computer probably wasn't a bright thing to do. I immediately unplugged it from the wall and my computer and coiled it up to take home. I tried calling Eric at work to see if he could buy me another one before he left, but he was gone. I decided my best bet was to work out lab 3 on paper and only use the computer when I was ready to try it. The battery only lasts two hours.
When I got home and after hearing the saga of the roses, I showed Eric the cable. He started to scold me until I reminded him he'd done the same thing himself. Our recliners love to bite cables. You think you have them clear and somehow they jump back into the danger zone. First we determined I could use his computer cable; well, when he isn't using his laptop. He left his computer doing some all night job. Hopefully today it's free. I haven't checked yet. For last night, he tore my cable open and figured out the problem. The power wires are the core with a shield around them. The ground wire is woven around the outside of the shield and a plastic coating is on the outside of that. When the chair bit the cable, it cut through part of the outer coating, cut some of the ground wires and they punctured through the shield and shorted the wire. He peeled the outer coating, cut the ground wires at the break and peeled them back. Then he made a loop of the exposed shielded wire and twisted the ground wire together so it was far from the hole in the shield. It worked! Lucky for me the battery in my computer wasn't damaged. Today he's fixing it properly.
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Date: 2005-02-19 05:35 pm (UTC)I bet some men would be in for deep trouble.
Nice that the florist made it up like that. It sounds like a wonderful bouquet of flowers.