Aug 12 2007
oops! Florist sends love note to wife instead of girlfriend
Leroy Greer meant to say it with flowers to his girlfriend, but his wife heard about it too, and now the whole arrangement is in federal court. Claiming 1-800-flowers.com made his life considerably less rosy, Greer sued the flower delivery company, alleging it made his divorce case thornier by faxing his wife a receipt for flowers he had sent his girlfriend â along with the romantic words he wrote for the card.
The suit, filed this week in Houston, asks that the company pay for his mental anguish and for the increased amount he figures he’ll have to pay in his divorce case, pending since 2005 in Fort Bend County, because his wife has new evidence against him.
Read about it here.
[From me]
Tough luck dude. You should have worried about your note before you broke your marriage vows. The only breech and mental anguish is for your poor wife. I can hear Tammy Wynette singing DIVORCE.
What do you think?
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You’d think this guy would cut his losses rather than subject himself to national humiliation instead of just local.
That goes along with the recent story of a man whose wife is divorcing him via a paper trail from E-Z pass. He told his wife he was one place, but the receipt mailed to the man’s home address showed him in another place entirely. The Tammy Wynette song is playing in the back ground in this case too.
“Less rosy” and “thornier”- like it! But litigation? Only in USA!
It reminds me of something that is arguably the only funny thing to emerge from the 9/11 atrocity. A chap who worked in WTC was having an affair and chose to take that day off to be with his lover. His frantic wife rang his mobile phone ( I think you cal them cell phones) that morning to ask where he was, and if he was OK. In complete ignorance of the disaster, Lover Boy lied, “At work, of course. Yes, I’m OK. Why?”
Not surprisingly, a divorce application was filed shortly thereafter.
Reaping what he has sown, I am afraid.
1) Luxury sales car manager-I wonder if he ordered the flowers on company time.
2) Absence of malice on the part of the florist and no contractual obligation.
3) Control freak.
Wild speculation: What if the florist is owned by the woman’s lawyer? Wouldn’t that be a mess!
Monk-in-training is absolutely right. And we should take heed for all areas of life, not just our marriage.