Emma Story

Review of Blooms on Fifth

A friend of mine ordered flowers for my birthday f...

A friend of mine ordered flowers for my birthday from this place. I had no idea they were coming (a pretty common situation with flowers, one would think) and they supposedly arrived while I wasn't home, but there was no sign of them. No note on the door, nothing in the lobby, no indication that anything had been delivered or where it was.

My friend called the florist to find out what happened, and a few minutes later I got a call from them myself. Someone named Josephine (I think) had a huge attitude and seemed to assume that I could just drop everything in the middle of my work day to go back to Brooklyn and deal with the flowers her own business had mis-delivered. I found her rude and unpleasant, especially when you consider that getting flowers for your birthday is supposed to be a nice surprise, not an annoying ordeal.

The following day when I finally did track down the random member of the building staff the flowers had been left with (not a doorman as we don't have one, not the super either), they were dead.