You've got to laugh
Visiting offices every day to maintain our plants is a job we love to do. The job is made even more enjoyable when we encounter humorous situations and in 20 years there have been plenty!
Every day we hear clients chuckle as they hear the sound of water trickling out of our watering can into the planter reservoir. They think we're answering our own call of nature not the plant`s.
It's amazing what people will "lose" in a plant pot... The "top five" of foreign objects found in our arrangements -
- coffee dregs
- old chewing gum
- the detritus of office rubber band wars
- half eaten food
- fully eaten food (don't ask!)
In the early days, when Susie was training Nick, he watered an artificial plant during a powercut in a furniture store. Susie`s loud whisper was heard by the staff and Nick's arrival was met with cheers and laughter for many months!
Clients have a propensity for naming their plants. We have come across Percy the plant, Sad Fred [the weeping fig] and Phil [Philodendron scandens - geddit?].
What do you call a girl with creepers growing all over her?
What do you call a man who has been dug up after being dead for two thousand years?
What do you call a prickly girl sitting on a bull?