{"id":882,"date":"2007-08-15T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T16:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/882"},"modified":"2007-08-15T11:03:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T16:03:40","slug":"tips-for-toads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/882","title":{"rendered":"Tips For Toads&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Cheater&#8217;s Handbook&#8230;&nbsp; <em>When sending flowers to your mistress, make sure your wife doesn&#8217;t get the bill&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2007\/08\/15\/wroses115.xml\"><strong>US Florist sued after red roses lead to divorce <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leroy Greer is a bit of a romantic. He sent a dozen roses and a teddy bear to his girlfriend, with a card reading &quot;Just wanted to say I love you&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the florist sent the receipt to his wife.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How&#8230;romantic&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now the luxury car salesman from Missouri City is suing the firm for $1 million for &quot;mental anguish&quot; caused by the mix-up and his resultant divorce.<\/p>\n<p>The affair was laid bare after his wife received a receipt from 1-800-flowers.com.<\/p>\n<p>Bereft of bouquet, she called the company and requested more information, which not only included the damning card message but the girlfriend&#8217;s name and address.<\/p>\n<p>She faxed the receipt to her husband at work with her own note: &quot;Be a man! If you got caught red handed then don&#8217;t lie.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Divorce proceedings followed swiftly.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ya think?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr Greer blamed the florist for his divorce and insisted it had told him no receipt would be sent to his home.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No Leroy&#8230;it wasn&#8217;t the flowers.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the thought that counts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Cheater&#8217;s Handbook&#8230;&nbsp; When sending flowers to your mistress, make sure your wife doesn&#8217;t get the bill&#8230; US Florist sued after red roses lead to divorce Leroy Greer is a bit of a romantic. He sent a dozen roses and a teddy bear to his girlfriend, with a card reading &quot;Just wanted to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}