Friday, May 06, 2005

Bad Son

I am a bad, cheap son.

Earlier this week, I was ordering Mother's Day flowers for my mom on Proflowers.com. The flowers were $29.99 and came with a free vase. Sounded good to me. But when I got to the Confirm Order screen, I noticed a $9.99 shipping fee. I closed down the window and put my credit card away.

Mom will just be getting a phone call this year.

6 COMMENTS:

PC said...

I bought my mom a giant novelty card I saw in QuickMart after a few beers. It was really funny at the time, and only $6. Then it cost me another $8 to ship it!

KOM said...

"That's all right, dear." (heavy sigh) "Just hearing your voice is present enough for me."

Randy said...

You mean it's Mother's Day? I'll give my mom a card and my wife another card.

Amy S. Petrik said...

um. i'm worse than you. i do not believe in this commercialized "holiday"... but i did ask my mom if i could drive home to see her. she emailed me back saying (no lie): "let me get back to you on that!" ... um, i am the only offspring who lives in the same state as her. the other three live across the nation. i do not work at any of my 3 jobs tomorrow and i do want to spend it with her. but until i get that email back giving me the heads up, i will most likely be eating Chinese food again and watching crap movies on LIFETIME.

Cap said...

lol.

i went to "flowers 4 less," about 15 minute drive away from me..

dozen roses for $14 bux, not too bad. they werent arranged nicely or anything but I can do that myself.

that made me laugh though. I would have promplty closed the window too. at first I was just going to give my mom a hug, but my sister drag me along to go buy some flowers.

Cap@stopbuyingcrap.com

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