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The Rose Ruckus

Remember the old sitcom gag, done so many times, about the horny guy who dated several women at the same time? He kept them all in the dark about each other as he artfully (or so he fancied) juggled them until some snafu brought his philandering to light, sometimes with mildly humorous results. Just when I thought this hackneyed scenario had run its course, life decided to imitate art.

Enter stage left: Leroy Greer. He sent a dozen red roses and love note to his girlfriend through 1-800-FLOWERS.com and asked the online florist not to send the receipt to his house. Several months later, 1-800-Flowers sent a “thanks for your business” note to his address where his wife found it. Knowing she didn't get the bouquet, she called 1-800-Flowers who faxed a copy of the receipt and purchase order to her at her request. The purchase order included her husband's betraying note: “Just wanted to say I love you and you mean the world to me—Leroy.” He is now suing 1-800-FLOWERS.com for inadvertently revealing him as an adulterer. He is demanding $1 million in damages to cover his anticipated $6000/month in alimony payments likely to result from his impending divorce.

Isn’t that just typical? Don’t take responsibility for your premeditated choices—just make somebody else clean your spittoon. Whatever happened to being a man? His soon to be ex-wife asked the same question. Scribbled on the fax copy of the purchase order were these sage words:

“Be a man! If you got caught red-handed then don’t still lie. Your tmobile still has her number so why still lie [sic]”

The bad news for Greer is that there are no guarantees of privacy on the internet. Flowers didn't promise not to send a thank you note to Greer's home address. As far as they were concerned the customer, as determined by the billing address freely given by Greer, phoned for receipt information and the company was probably obliged to give it to her. Besides, what could customer service say?

"Sorry Mrs. Greer but your husband told us not to send the receipt to your house."

Even if the wife didn't pick up on that bit of innuendo, the florist still had the purchase order that may not necessarily have been labeled top secret. Just to be clear, Flowers did not promise to keep mum about Greer’s affair. He has indicted himself for steppin' out and he needs to take his wife's admonition.

The good news is that his law suit is likely to be dismissed. Fox News interviewed Greer's lawyer about the flower flub filing and even she laughed.








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posted by Lisa @ 12:56 PM