Allow Me To Recommend A Marvelous Local Business!

LIKE YOU, I’m pretty impressionable when it comes to advertising.

For instance — that new commercial with the unlikely animal pairs worked exactly as the genius ad-men behind it had planned:

I found myself immediately running out to the exotic pet black market down the street and buying an Australian crocodile and one of those red-assed monkeys — hoping to create some adorable magic of my own.

(Didn’t end well for Mr. Bananas, but I did manage to save most of his butt — I’m having it made into one of those horseshoe-shaped neck pillows you take on planes.)

Anyway: Also like you, I may be pretty impressionable, but I’m not stupid. You and me, we weren’t born yesterday, were we? Nope.

So recently, when I was in the parking lot of a local thrift store — thinking about sending flowers to a friend or loved one or grieving parents of a red-assed monkey, as many of us so often do when we find ourselves in the parking lot of local thrift stores — I saw this…

…and I was of course intrigued. Maybe even a little impressed. And curious.

But not yet won over.

Because while such a magnificent and elaborate car window display certainly implies a particular level of professionalism and an advertising budget quite possibly over the $5 mark (depending on where they bought those rhinestones), I’ve been fooled by car-florists with clever names and flashy signs before.

Then I wandered to the other side of the vehicle where I saw this:

Ah-haaa…! They somehow managed to scoop up both .net and .com! Not an easy task, I reckon, for such a popular domain name!

These people are on the ball! That’s what I’m looking for in a florist.

They’ve got all my flower business now, and, if I may be a bit presumptuous, I dare say yours, too!

Posted by Ted on March 5, 2015, 10:45 AM.