let her stay a client
let me see the arrangement
do ya wanna do my flowers?
i'm not even sure why i'm bringing it here,
but i figure it couldn't hurt to throw it
around or, at very least, vent a bit about it.
i have these clients -- kana and joel -- who
are pretty kick ass. they are a young,
well-to-do couple that really like blowing
money on superficial shit.
they have hired me before in the past to
make up some incredible designs to give to
each other yadda yadda... and i REALLY like
working with/for them because they like
high style shit... and dropping a few
hundred at a time to see that its awesome.
as a side note, i really respect that.
not the fact that they pay out the ass for
stuff... but because they respect the art
of floral design enough to know that you
can get some really cool ART from flowers
without having to fence yourself in with
typical, cliche designs.
anyway....
kana comes to me the other day... really
gay and giddy and she asks me to make up
a few things for herself -- to which i
readily agree.
during the conversation, kana thrusts out
that she and joel are getting a divorce...
(which stuns me immediately) and that
she is selling her house and wants something
awesome to put in there while her house
is being shown to potential buyers.
ok... all that extra detail is unnecessary...
kana and joel *celebrated* their anniversary
just a couple of months ago... an no wind
of this sort of shit ever crossed my mind.
NOW i find out that they are getting a
divorce... and apparently pretty darn fast.
at least fast enough that she is slapping
the house up on the market without a breath
otherwise.
i couldn't tell if she was secretly choked
up about it and pretending to be happy...
or if she was really really happy to be
rid of his ass. she claims the reason for
the divorce is: "he's just freakin' crazy"
(as she tells it)
hmmm... ok
"they all are," i respond as a cliche retort...
to which she quickly blurted out something
along the lines of wanting to hang out
with me and go do something..... ANYtime...
i said "sure" in the normal professional
way... assuming that it was something
i should say in such circumstances...
but later in the day, i went to her house
to bring her shit... and she was really
pushing me to hang out with her.
now THIS is the issue... because while i
think she is ok for a client... i'm a bit
leary about the whole thing. it's not that
i wouldn't mind hanging out with her, etc...
its the fact that i REALLY prefer her as
a client... and i want to keep her business.
i fear that perhaps i may be some sort of
curtain for her to mask the divorce issue
(or something relative) and i dunno that
it would be a good idea.
i'm caught 50-50 in this situation because
i could easily develop something decent
from this er... association. but at the
same time, if she IS using me to cover up
her feelings or situation... i'm afraid that
its a bad foundation and shit may happen.
perhaps she just wants a non-biased 3rd
party to play around and vent with...
fine
but i guess i feel a bit odd about it and
i'm not sure what to do.
yep, thats it.
oh yeah... and let me just say that her
arrangement kicked sweet ass... [img]cool.gif[/img]
let her stay a client
let me see the arrangement
do ya wanna do my flowers?
i get a whole weird lesbian vibe from this
suuuuuhhhhhhwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttaaaahh hh
[img]cool.gif[/img]
ain't no lesbian nothin goin on..... [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]
dc....
no pictures of the arrangement, however, i will
be doing a wedding next week. hmmm... now that i
think on it, i should probably make a new thread
on the subject... as i could really make a beef
about this wedding.
as for doing your personal flowers, dc....
don't think that it wasn't the FIRST thing i
thought about when i saw you were getting
married. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
i could NEVER impose such a thing... not to mention
i'd have no idea how to go about doing it exactly.
i WILL say that i believe your ideas behind
your wedding sound pretty kick ass... at least,
if those ideas are the same that was mentioned
way back when. [img]smile.gif[/img]
<font size="4" face="Tempus Sans ITC, Tahoma">Hmmm, that would be interesting.Originally posted by The4Horsemen11:
i get a whole weird lesbian vibe from this
I would say keep her as a client. If you swing more towards the friend side you could get dragged into lots of nice, stupid drama that won't make you happy.
In some ways she sounds like your "type" but in others I'm not so sure. Be careful with people that are dealing with a divorce she may just need a "pal" until she hooks up with someone else. You know better than anyone what kind of friendship you can offer so I believe you will know what choice to make in the end.
i think you guys are really nailing it for me.
i agree that i didn't want to be put into a
weird situation... and it smelled like it a mile
long.
i think i will keep my distance from this one...
and perhaps send her a nice, professional card
thanking her for her business, yadda yadda.
thanks for the advice... it really makes sense
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