She got in a car accident, and she hates flowers... What do I send her?

[chabooky386]

Well my fellow POTN members what do I do? She hates flowers and she got in a HUGE wreck. What can I send her :cry:

[poppie guy]

A new car.

[chabooky386]

A new car. good idea! but please something reasonable!!!

[SlowBlink]

A used car? :) ...chocolate, chicks dig chocolate.

[joeseph]

best wishes & a box of chocolate?

[bbeck4x4]

a book to read? and chocolate, but not the cheap stuff.

[poppie guy]

What does she like? If it were my wife I'd probably get her a new iPod with some of her favorite music and some audio books, and a new rosary.

[GM_of_OLC]

One of these:
http://www.ediblearrangements.com/
I just saw this commercial on tv and they look awesome.
It looks like flowers, but it's yummy fruit! (You can even get chocolate covered.)

[Grace]

All the new girly magazines at the supermarket!!! Cosmo, Style, People, USweekly.
Antibacterial lotion. MAC lip recovery (the best lip balm in the world). And cute pj's. She's gonna wanna look half way cute at the hospital.

[chabooky386]

All the new girly magazines at the supermarket!!! Cosmo, Style, People, USweekly.
Antibacterial lotion. MAC lip recovery (the best lip balm in the world). And cute pj's. She's gonna wanna look half way cute at the hospital.


Not a bad idea!

[chabooky386]

One of these:


http://www.ediblearrangements.com/
I just saw this commercial on tv and they look awesome.
It looks like flowers, but it's yummy fruit! (You can even get chocolate covered.)





Freaking SWEET!

[Mark1]

Whats wrong with just calling her. Or better stopping buy to see her.

And your centered text is hard to find with such short messages. Normal is to the left. You might want to change it.

[Mike McCusker]

One of these:
http://www.ediblearrangements.com/
I just saw this commercial on tv and they look awesome.
It looks like flowers, but it's yummy fruit! (You can even get chocolate covered.)


Ditto, I have had these, they are delicious...

[steved110]

A personal CD player and some audio books?

How racked up is she? Can she eat/ speak/ use her arms?

I hope she gets well soon.

[chabooky386]

Thanks for all the help guys! I ended up going for the edibleart! She loved it! Thanks!

[cdifoto]

Nothin' says I love you like a bag of M&Ms.

[Radtech1]

Dude,

Whatever it is, make it PERSONAL

Women, let me know if I am on base with this, but what they REALLY want is a gift - no a gesture - the proves that you pay attention to them, that you know them, that they are special and not generic.

Someone mentioned a book, good idea but generic. Talk to her mom and find out what was her favorite book from childhood. Get her a copy of that. All the better if it is out of print and you have to have it shipped from a used book store overseas. I did that with my wife when we were dating. She was speechless.

There is a movie out on DVD "Stranger than Fiction". Not a bad movie, but when the guy needed to make amends, he thought about the woman. She owns a small pastry shop. Baking is her passion. It is who she is. So, he got her a dozen flours. Not flowers, but flours. A dozen one pound bags of boutique flours, whole wheat flour, potato rye flour and so on. Flowers = generic. Flours = specific and personal.

There is a story (true, who knows or cares) about a teacher who taught in a small tribe in Africa. When the year was up, one of her students gave her a seashell as a goodbye gift. She knew that the ocean was hundreds of miles away and she asked how the boy got ahold of a shell. He explained that he spent several days walking to the ocean and several days walking back. She was touched that he would walk so far, just to get her a gift. He told her simply, "Long walk is part of gift."

So whenever I have a chance, I ask myself "Where in this gift can I take the long walk?" What can be special? what can be personal?

Last year about this time Marcia saw some earrings in an estate shop and fell in love with them. At $700 dollars they were a bit steep, so she needed to think about buying them. It took her a couple days to talk herself into them, but when she went back to buy them, but they were gone. She just figured it was a "God Shot", saying you need that money for other things.

In reality I had bought them for her. Christmas in July? Noooooooo. But because I had been paying attention, and just learned that she loved the style, I had a jeweler craft a pendant to match. The pendant was for Christmas. The earrings were for her birthday the following February.

That, my friend, is the "Long Walk".

Find it. Take it.

Rad

EDIT: HERE (http://www.amazon.com/1001-Ways-Be-Romantic-PB/dp/1570714819/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215634508&sr=8-3) is a secret. At only .77¢ used, it may well be the best penny investment you ever make.

[slimninj4]

why not an edible bouquet they are selling now. They really look good.

[Grace]

Dude,

Whatever it is, make it PERSONAL

Women, let me know if I am on base with this, but what they REALLY want is a gift - no a gesture - the proves that you pay attention to them, that you know them, that they are special and not generic.

Someone mentioned a book, good idea but generic. Talk to her mom and find out what was her favorite book from childhood. Get her a copy of that. All the better if it is out of print and you have to have it shipped from a used book store overseas. I did that with my wife when we were dating. She was speechless.

There is a movie out on DVD "Stranger than Fiction". Not a bad movie, but when the guy needed to make amends, he thought about the woman. She owns a small pastry shop. Baking is her passion. It is who she is. So, he got her a dozen flours. Not flowers, but flours. A dozen one pound bags of boutique flours, whole wheat flour, potato rye flour and so on. Flowers = generic. Flours = specific and personal.

There is a story (true, who knows or cares) about a teacher who taught in a small tribe in Africa. When the year was up, one of her students gave her a seashell as a goodbye gift. She knew that the ocean was hundreds of miles away and she asked how the boy got ahold of a shell. He explained that he spent several days walking to the ocean and several days walking back. She was touched that he would walk so far, just to get her a gift. He told her simply, "Long walk is part of gift."

So whenever I have a chance, I ask myself "Where in this gift can I take the long walk?" What can be special? what can be personal?

Last year about this time Marcia saw some earrings in an estate shop and fell in love with them. At $700 dollars they were a bit steep, so she needed to think about buying them. It took her a couple days to talk herself into them, but when she went back to buy them, but they were gone. She just figured it was a "God Shot", saying you need that money for other things.

In reality I had bought them for her. Christmas in July? Noooooooo. But because I had been paying attention, and just learned that she loved the style, I had a jeweler craft a pendant to match. The pendant was for Christmas. The earrings were for her birthday the following February.

That, my friend, is the "Long Walk".

Find it. Take it.

Rad

EDIT: HERE (http://www.amazon.com/1001-Ways-Be-Romantic-PB/dp/1570714819/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215634508&sr=8-3) is a secret. At only .77¢ used, it may well be the best penny investment you ever make.

Awesome! :) Lucky wife!

[LW Dail]

Awesome! :) Lucky wife!

Confucious say - Happy wife, happy husband.

Oklahomans say - If momma ain't happy, aint nobody happy.

All you guys should take a note and spend .77. You can absolutely thrill the woman you're with with the simplest of gestures. We women LOVE these little gestures and the thoughts behind them.

After I upgraded to the 5D, we had a suprise trip to the CA coast. I had sold my 100-300mm and was going to have to go with the 24-105 L. We didn't want to spend more $$ that month.

The week before we left, a box appeared with the 100-400 L and a sheepish hubby with a big grin!

I love him dearly, loved him a bit more for that expression on his face!

And no, you don't have to spend that much money (or do!), it's the whole 'something unexpected with love.'

[mtnphtgrphr]

Dude,

Whatever it is, make it PERSONAL

Women, let me know if I am on base with this, but what they REALLY want is a gift - no a gesture - the proves that you pay attention to them, that you know them, that they are special and not generic.

Someone mentioned a book, good idea but generic. Talk to her mom and find out what was her favorite book from childhood. Get her a copy of that. All the better if it is out of print and you have to have it shipped from a used book store overseas. I did that with my wife when we were dating. She was speechless.

There is a movie out on DVD "Stranger than Fiction". Not a bad movie, but when the guy needed to make amends, he thought about the woman. She owns a small pastry shop. Baking is her passion. It is who she is. So, he got her a dozen flours. Not flowers, but flours. A dozen one pound bags of boutique flours, whole wheat flour, potato rye flour and so on. Flowers = generic. Flours = specific and personal.

There is a story (true, who knows or cares) about a teacher who taught in a small tribe in Africa. When the year was up, one of her students gave her a seashell as a goodbye gift. She knew that the ocean was hundreds of miles away and she asked how the boy got ahold of a shell. He explained that he spent several days walking to the ocean and several days walking back. She was touched that he would walk so far, just to get her a gift. He told her simply, "Long walk is part of gift."

So whenever I have a chance, I ask myself "Where in this gift can I take the long walk?" What can be special? what can be personal?

Last year about this time Marcia saw some earrings in an estate shop and fell in love with them. At $700 dollars they were a bit steep, so she needed to think about buying them. It took her a couple days to talk herself into them, but when she went back to buy them, but they were gone. She just figured it was a "God Shot", saying you need that money for other things.

In reality I had bought them for her. Christmas in July? Noooooooo. But because I had been paying attention, and just learned that she loved the style, I had a jeweler craft a pendant to match. The pendant was for Christmas. The earrings were for her birthday the following February.

That, my friend, is the "Long Walk".

Find it. Take it.

Rad

EDIT: HERE (http://www.amazon.com/1001-Ways-Be-Romantic-PB/dp/1570714819/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215634508&sr=8-3) is a secret. At only .77¢ used, it may well be the best penny investment you ever make.

*stands clapping* Dude that deserves a standing ovation... It truly IS the small gestures and personal things that make things romantic!!!! One heck of a lucky wife!!!!

[Persephone]

This may sound freaky, but when's her birthday? I dabble in daily sunset photography and can possivly send you a JPEG of her birthday sunset to print out, if you would like. There's no guarantee that she will have a good sunset, but I can offer a generic sunset instead if you think that will have as equal of a cheering power.

[joeseph]

Dude,

Whatever it is, make it PERSONAL

Women, let me know if I am on base with this, but what they REALLY want is a gift - no a gesture - the proves that you pay attention to them, that you know them, that they are special and not generic.
some days I stand in awe at some of the excellent advice here.
this is one of these posts. Thanks! :)

[cdifoto]

OK fine. Make it PEANUT M&Ms. Presuming she has no allergies of that sort.

[Radtech1]

some days I stand in awe at some of the excellent advice here.
this is one of these posts. Thanks! :)

Something else I once did. I used to date a woman named Laura Garbo - a startlingly beautiful Italian woman, but her beauty was somewhat exotic and strongly influenced by her Italian heritage. There were times that she wasn't 100% comfortable with that.

So one day I typed up a statement - a declaration - attesting to the fact that she is the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth by several orders of magnitude, so on, and so on. The usual hyperbole (everything is true, but hyperbole none the less). Now, anyone can write about someone's beauty. I tried to think of what I can do to make this special. Well, she works in an real estate management office, sees official documents all day long.

So I decided I had to make this official, so I had it notarized! I went to an honest to god notary public, paid $18.00 (or whatever) and had it notarized complete with a notary stamp. The notary people cracked up (and more than a couple wished their boyfriend's would do something like that!) and Laura loved it.

So it doesn't have to be something hugely expensive, like having a pendant crafted, it just needs to be personal.

Rad

[Radtech1]

OK fine. Make it PEANUT M&Ms. Presuming she has no allergies of that sort.


Dude,

You are SO there! Why didn't I think of that!

:lol: