Best Fruit At Mosman

OK, this one is going to end badly I’m afraid. My gripe here is service. I popped in one morning to purchase a small bunch of Jonquils for a friend. A small gesture ya know. A token thank you. Nothing to go bonkers over. Just a thank you. So, they sell them in small bunches right. They lady who works there asks me if they’re a gift. ‘Yes’, I say. This was apparently the wrong answer. ‘Really, now you want me to gift wrap this when the wrapping will cost me 20 cents. It’s not worth me getting up in the morning’. She didn’t actually say this out loud, I just imagine this is what she said to herself as she narrowed her eyes and huffily wrapped cellophane around what I was starting to think was my pathetic offering. I then really insulted her. I asked if I could borrow a pen and paper. ‘I don’t have one’, she said.’ I could use this paper bag’, I offered helpfully. She snatched it from me and said I couldn’t use it. I offered to buy it from her. She told me ‘they’re not for sale’. When I picture this scene with my hindsight camera, I walk brazenly over to the grapes, pop one in a bag, and then stroll back to the counter to pay for it. I then write my note on MY paper bag, which I now purchased legitimately and leave the shop.
Snapping out of the dream, what I actually did was buy a gift card for $ 1. I then had a tiny bunch of flowers that cost nearly as much as the tiny card accompanying them.
My friend loved them and I still growl when I pass the shop. I won’t be going back.