Flowers by Jr Lou & T

Elite '08

17

110

Frank L.

Cambridge, MA

This place has never disappointed me.  They deliver the total package.  Their flowers are really great and and fresh.  And their presentation (the wrapping and the bow) is really beautiful too.  I wish I had an interesting story but here's as close as I can come.  I used to go to school about half a mile from here and when I when I needed flowers I used to walk here before homeroom.  Yay for Jr Lou's.

Technically, street parking but you could park at the 7-11 next door and run over.  If you feel bad pick yourself up a slurpee or a spam musubi while you're at it.  You deserve love too right?

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Elite '08

370

628

Brenda Kaye W.

San Francisco, CA

My mother instructed me to purchase a nice lei for my father for his birthday celebration.

She told me I could buy it from Wal-Mart.  Apparently Wal-Mart sells leis.

Now, while I wouldn't go out of my way to shop at Wal-Mart, I'm not one of these anti-Wal-Mart types who thinks that Wal-Mart represents everything that is corporate and evil and wrong with America.  I'm a pretty big believer in the free market actually, and if stores like Wal-Mart thrive in today's economy, so be it.  Wal-Mart is a perfectly fine place to buy t-shirts and plastic storage containers and spatulas and laundry soap and dishwashing detergent, I suppose.

But, excuse me, did you say LEIS?  Did you just suggest that I buy a LEI from Wal-Mart, for the man who made so many sacrifices for his kids?

NO!  NO!  FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND RIGHT AND HOLY IN THE WORLD, I REFUSE TO BUY A LEI FROM WAL-MART FOR MY DEAR OLD DAD!

So, I went to Flowers by Jr Lou & T, my flower shop of choice back when I attended the University of Hawaii, where I purchased many a lei to congratulate friends upon their graduations.  They sell nice leis here, as well as flower arrangements.  I picked out a lovingly handcrafted lei of flowers and foliage and kukui nuts.

My dear old dad deserves the best, not Wal-Mart.

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Elite '08

914

1924

Kristina R.

San Francisco, CA

ME:  (calling...ring, ring)  HELLO?  HELLO?

LADY:  Jr Lou & T.  

ME:  I need help!  Flowers!  

LADY:  Oh, ok, what do you need?  

ME:  You don't understand.  My mother's birthday is tomorrow.  I NEED FLOWERS.

LADY:  Oh, ok.  Sooo...

ME:  Listen very carefully.  She is a ticking time bomb of bitter resentment and painful disappointment.  I need 50 roses.

LADY:  50?  That's a lot of roses...usually, two dozen is the...

ME:  SHE WILL EX-COMMUNICATE ME IF I BRING 24!  LISTEN TO ME!  IF WE GO UNDER 50, SHE WILL GO OFF, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!  STAY AT FIFTY FRIGGIN' ROSES!

LADY:  Uh, ok.  Are you on medic...

ME:  Are you counting?  HOW MUCH?!

LADY:  That'll be, uh...

ME:  OH, GAWD!  JUST TAKE MY CREDIT CARD AND CHARGE WHATEVER IT TAKES!  DO IT!  OR I'M A DEAD WOMAN!

LADY:  Ok, ok...delivery tomorrow, right?

ME:  Yes...yes...good.  Ok.  That's good.  Keep it at 50...and no one gets hurt.

Birthday's are a bitch and a half.  My mom is like the transit bus in the movie Speed.  And I'm Sandra Bullock...on Lithium and horse tranquilizers.

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