Time for a rant. I have two today.
shopping: ugh, I dont want to answer a shit ton of questions at time of purchase. Just take my money and shut up. No I dont want a rewards card. No, I do not want to give you my freekin email address. Stop asking me how
I want my receipt, give it to me in paper because how can you email it to me, I didnt give you my email address???
stuff more stuff the stuff rolls in associated with garden clubs: As a "thank you" for a judging assignment i received a gift bag with the ubiquitous candle plus some lotion plus some lavender cream. More little thingamajigs to use up. Then another thank you bag came, with another set of small thinamajigs. Then I learned that each of us will receive a mixed tape (actually, a CD) from a flower show, an audio track of music played at the show. Ummm. I dont want this.No one asked if I wanted one. Someoneis burning these, someone is using precious life energy to make this crap. No, just cut it out. If I want music I will buy it, and why does anyone think their compilation is a set I would want?
ugh. I love my flower show peeps and I love the creative work we do in having shows and setting up designs for critique. But I do not want the attendant CRAP!
And then we had a meeting about another flower event and we had quite a long discussion, during which I got crabbier and crabbier, about keeping people hydrated while they toured the Botanical gardens. The person in charge of the tour planned to buy water in Plastic bottles and keep them in a cooler on the bus. Ok, whatever, Eye roll. But then a person who is the ultimate consumer said that we should buy permenant water bottles with our logo, would be great because then "you can recycle it and use it again..." and on and on. Yes, buying more cheap crap from China is exactly what we should be doing to litter the earth and force attendees to take home yet another stupid thing they dont want. At our meeting I made her take the three tote bags We had received at the previous flower show event. She wants bags! Well, she will get them from me,
I hate them.
tl;dr Iris hates useless objects foisted on her!
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