"I tell you what, she must be doing something dead right 'coz I don't get flowers like this," said the receptionist, squaring up the bunch on Louise's desk.
Louise's boyfriend is clearly one of those incurable romantics. Either that or he's done something that requires some serious atonement.
Louise is on a training course, which means that this sprawling floral tribute remains unappreciated on her desk until she emerges from the training room.
What's actually happening though, is that this assortment of lovely flowers is also bringing on an explosive bout of hay fever, all over again. Someone's romantic gesture has become a sort of pollen-bomb, carried in innocuously by reception in an unwitting act of chemical warfare.
My eyes are sore and itchy and I can feel my throat tightening.
Still, if it's in the interest of romance, I guess that's okay. I mean I'm all for that.
How do you work out the formula for how often flowers are appropriate? I mean, it must be so easy to get that wrong. Is it random? Do you have to wait until a special moment? If the frequency is too high, do flowers make less of an impact? If the frequency is too low, does the gesture smell more of suspicion?
Well these are certainly making an impact - just not on the person they were intended for, and not in the way that they were meant to. I might have to move desks.
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