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Owning a flower shop in a small town is special. You get to know people, they are more than customers, they are friends and at times they become like family. It is not unusual for people to just stop by and visit. They'll walk in the back door, grab a stool, sit down and talk while I work
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Miss Frances has lived in this town her entire life. She was one of my church ladies, taking care of the altar flowers. She would come in every week with the altar vases and tell me who was paying for them and what they wanted. She would stay for a while and talk with me and mom. She always got a kick out of some of the things I was doing and was never shy about critiquing an arrangement I was doing. Sometimes she would bring cookies, come in the back door and give me a great big hug. I would ask her about things in town , what was is like when she was younger. She would tell us stories of a simpiler time. Sitting on the church steps listening to the band play and going to get ice cream. Or how the Trolley came through town and the stops it would make. I asked her to write her memories down for me once and she did. It's something I will always treasure.
Frances died yesterday. She was like my grandmother. I will miss her terribly and I can't believe I will never see her come through my back door again.


Jennifer
 
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What a blessing she was to you during her lifetime!
 
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Jennifer, I'm sorry you lost your friend... for that's what she was.

I loved being in business in a small town, for all the reasons you mentioned.

May we all have a Frances in our lives... how fortunate for you and for her that you did.

V
 
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Aw, Jennifer, sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. What a neat story about her though.

We had a lady like that, at a shop I worked in. I don't know if she's still around but her name was Ruby; she was in her 80's at the time. She would walk over to the store from her apartment and just hang out and help us. She'd fill buckets (ok she'd put like 1/2 inch of water, in, LOL we'd have to go back and put more in later), process flowers, then we she was tired of that she'd just sit for a while and hang out and tell stories of working at Bendels Dept. store back in the day.

We had another Italian lady named Mary who would bring us lunch and hang out too.

We were like older-lady central! :)
 
Jennifer, you shall always have those memories. When we took over this shop it was in my home and a lovely 80+ lady would walk down the hill from her house and visit every day. She continued this until her children put her in a nursing home at age 92. I visited her there once a week for a month and she slipped away just 4 weeks after entering the home. She always wore her "kitchen apron" with the flour still on it from baking the cookies, bread, or sweets she would bring. We loved having her visit.
Those are the memories my husband and I have 20 years later.
 
Jennifer,

What a touching story of how our customers do indeed become so precious to us. We have several of those ladies. But the one that comes to mind is Beryl, also in her 80's. She to is one of the Church ladies that is in charge of the Sunday Alter arrangement. She will come in just to chat, or to show us pictures of how our arrangements looked on the alter. Even my poodle, Jourmaine, gets excited when Berly comes for a visit. I will miss the day when she no longer comes.

What a great opportunity we have to be touched by these special people as well as be special to them. We do have the best job in the world. How many other places would you be allowed to visit as long as you wanted, yet still keep working?
 
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So sorry about your special friend. Your shop sounds like a good place to visit.
Sharon
 
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Thank you all so much for your kind words.
Reading about your special people is so nice.

Jennifer
 
Special people I think make the world go around....and since its still turning then there are still alot of special people out there:) Unfortunately though for you one has gone and hopefully to a very special place.
All you need to do is remember those beautiful memories shared....and be happy to know you had such a lovely person in your life to share these with:)
 
I'm mad

I hate funeral directors !!
So I don't apparently "play the game" with our local scum bag of a FD.
He uses a florist from another town and am certain that he is getting a kickback from them. Years ago I called him to ask if there was a problem, why wasn't he using us any longer. He said that he was busy and couldn't talk. This after I prefaced the conversation with do you have a few minutes to talk and he said "sure".
Anyway, my friend Frances died and all I wanted to do was honor her with the most beautiful casket spray. And that bast**d gave the order to another florist in another town. I didn't care about the money, I wanted the honor of doing it for her. The only thing left for me to do for her and that was taken away from me . The family I spoke with said they just assumed he would call me.
Anyway, The Flowers from ME will be nice if nothing else..

Needed to vent...Thank You.

Jennifer
 
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Vent with him also.....
Blast him!
Give him your 2 cents!
You will feel much better.
Tell him you will tell eveyone you deal with out of town people instead of locally!

I had a fd that got caught telling people that should be going ot the other florist because it was cheaper. THese people knew me and told me this.
I phone him and told him that if he was going to do this again, he was in for a rough time.

Luc
 
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