I'm heartbroken! Poor little Safeway Phal

[ardera]

So Saturday I was at our locale Safeway grocery store, and just for the hell of it, I was looking at the Phals they sell. They had this poor little baby, that was clearly in SERIOUS need of help (he wasn't going to make it without help). So I brought it up to the counter of the floral dept, and asked if I might be able to get a discount on him. YEAH, first of all, bad choice of words. "We don't offer discounts on our plants." Apparently she felt that if they did, everyone and their mother, would wait until the orchids there are dying, and then they would try to buy them for a discount. Funny thing was there would be no way I would ever buy an orchid from them, I only wanted this one because he needed me. So I went to put him back, and then she tells me I have to leave him at the counter, because they can't put it back on the shelf in that condition. I asked her what they were going to do with him, she replied (throw it away). Again I offered money for the plant, although I couldn't justify paying the full $20, when I didn't know if he would even make it at all. Once again, she told me she couldn't give me a discount. I tried to point out that I was offering to pay money for a plant they were going to throw away, and not get any money for. She told me I would have to speak to her dept manager the next day. Well I did, no go, they would not let me purchase him, and had already thrown him away. Unfortunately, I was not all the keen on the idea of dumpster diving for him, in a grocery store garbage. Who knows what kind of surprises I would find.....