Petal Pusher Has To Buy 124,000 Red Roses
Will they have enough vases at home? An Iranian man has been ordered by a court to buy his wife 124,000 red roses. The woman decided to claim her mahr, or dowry, after ten years of marriage, saying: ``He even refused to pay for my coffee if we went to a cafe or restaurant". A long-stemmed rose in the Islamic Republic costs a little over $2, so the order will cost him more than $250,000. The husband says he can only afford five roses a day and complains "her billionaire friends put such ideas in her head."
FOOTNOTE: Flower (em)power.
She probably deserves the roses and a whole lot more!
ReplyDeleteOh, she probably so deserves every single one!
ReplyDeleteSorry I haven't been around much, hon. I'm working on it! :-)
i have so many reactions to this, i'm not sure where to start. so suffice it to say...are you effing kidding me??
ReplyDeletegood choice.
David,
ReplyDeleteThis challenges notions of women not having any rights in Iran, anyway! I would have opted for chocolate, myself.
HA! Serves him right! And vases???? Nah! She should make him EAT them! HAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteA court with a sense of humor and justice!
ReplyDeleteA single rose from the right person would make me happy.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should show my husband this post...I might get some flowers out it. LOL!
ReplyDeleteAnd to think - I'd be over the moon if my husband would just pick me a wildflower.
ReplyDelete125.000 roses have a lot of thorns.
ReplyDeleteI'd much rather have the cash!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteRoses die...unless you dip them in gold.
Maybe she ought to consider having him do that too.
He sounds like a real asshole to me lol
ReplyDeleteCall me a cynic, but I think I'd rather have the money myself (as a down payment to help me get away from him)!
ReplyDeleteThankyou for visiting mine, & leaving comments. Have had some laughs here, & enjoy you wonderful eye for photography, David.
ReplyDeleteHope you have had some rain! We have had plenty.
Hmmmmmmmmm!
ReplyDeleteI ADORE flowers and love to receive them. On Valentine's Day I was in our village and the florist van pulled up, looking for a cottage....I was trying to make out I had changed my name and infact our house was the cottage being sought!
Sadly, the driver didn't believe me...! LOL!
David...the batteries, we think we have sorted it! LOL!
Thanks to hubby's mathematical calculation.
I'm surprised at this ruling in Iran. It's good he's having to pay after allegedly being mean, but i bet she'd have preferred a few roses and the rest cash!
ReplyDeleteWonders never cease- a pretty outcome
ReplyDeleteThe roses won't last but the cash would be really helpful to her, I bet. Glad I'm not living there! I wouldn't last long!
ReplyDeleteIf I were her I'd take the money and run. She can buy all the roses she wants later! ;)
ReplyDeleteHe never promised her a rose garden....
ReplyDeleteAt least we have some creative sentencing.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful that my wife does not ask for such things, but if she did, she would deserve every single petal!
ReplyDeleteShe should take the cash instead!
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of roses!
ReplyDeleteFlower empower...hee hee...your punning ability never ceases to amaze.
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