12/18/07

Santa Claus!! He said, "Thank you, sir." I asked to shake his hand and he obliged.

10/4/07

Frankfurt Germany. Woman Standing And Eating On The Große Bockenheimer Straße. She said nothing and initially did not look at me. I started to walk away, but I could not believe another person would not look at me, so I turned around to check. She had looked up by now and she smiled. Perhaps Germans do not like to be approached while eating.

9/19/07

Woman Sweeping In Front Of Building. She said, "Thank you. I appreciate it!". This is the first black background flower I have given away.

But! Before that I got turned down! I tried to give it to a Woman Walking Past Me. She said no thanks, gave me the hand and steered clear of me.

...and last week, a Friend Of A Previous Flower Recipient said she did not want me to mail her a flower because I told her I would send her a black flower and that made me seem scary. Hmph to that! The background is black, not the actual flower. I should have explained that better.

9/1/07

Darth Vader! For real!!! I told him it was like catching the big fish. He said, "Why, thank you."

8/8/07

Cashier Woman at Publix. She said, "Thank you." I just was dumping today's flower and the woman seemed to sense this. Or I am projecting. Who knows?

6/22/07

Brooke in the Trader Joe's Parking Lot. I took her grocery cart and gave her a flower. She said, "You're the Flower Guy." I did not know what to think about her reaction, so I just said yes. She said that she reads my blog and she is friends with Tom Bell. We introduced each other. Afterwards, Heather said, "That changes every thing. You're famous." Ha! It was odd that someone knew who I was. Very fun!

Hey Brooke!! It was nice meeting you, thanks for reading my blog!!

5/31/07

Corey. He works from Massachusetts and is in the office today. He showed me that he still has his other flower in his notebook. He has a white flower and I showed him today's flower and that it had a green back ground. He said, "Give me that!" At first I told him that he could not trade up, and he said, "Why not!?". I gave him the flower outright so now he has two. He put the new flower in his notebook and said, "See? Bookends!"

5/23/07

Woman on elevator. She accidentally got in it while it was going up and she needed to go down. She laughed and said, "Thank you. How sweet." I need to stop giving flowers to people on elevators. It is too easy.

5/17/07

Woman on elevator. Yes, yet another woman on an elevator! I am in a rut. She said, "I thank you for it!"

This is the first flower from the second batch of flowers with green backgrounds.

5/7/07

Woman on elevator. I give a lot of flowers away on elevators. The receiver is trapped! ...but not threatened. She laughed and said, "Thank you. Very nice!"

4/27/07

Woman who works with John Portman. The flower I gave her was kind of messed up, but she did not know that, of course. I felt a little bad about this. She told me about a friend that she has that gives random gifts. We ended up talking for about five minutes. Her building and my building were designed by John Portman, and I asked her about the third building that was supposed to be built where the outdoor parking lot is, but she knew nothing about it. She told me her name, but as we shook hands I spilled coffee on myself and did not hear what she said. Classic. She was very nice.

4/13/07

Rosie. She is a security guard in a neighboring building where the Museum of Design is. She took the flower and asked where I worked. I told her and she asked, "And you are giving me a flower?". She said, "Thank you" and introduced herself as Rosie. She asked if I was going to the park tomorrow to see the Dogwood Festival. I told her probably not and that it might rain anyway. She said she had an umbrella. She thanked me again as I was leaving. She was very nice.

I noticed that, because she was a stranger, I was trying to pull away from the conversation as she was speaking to me. I need to change this.