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by slfnflctd 2165 days ago
If we had prepared them in advance that this was just a trial thing and not made it out as a big deal, things would have gone differently. These viral clips kind of encourage you to make an occasion of it, though, which is the part that stings.

It became too awkward for the recipient to return it after such a fuss was made, I think (also we waited for a particular holiday, which ate into the return window). It was left with an "I'll keep trying them out", and that was that. There was a vague mention a few weeks later about how it made some flowers maybe look a tiny bit different, but if there was any real effect it was not significantly life enhancing for this person, and certainly not worth all the hullaballo or expense.