I do not think that means what you think it means.

[apocalypsos]

Man sues flower company, saying it ruined his marriage by revealing affair

Before I clicked on that link, I though, "Oh, great, another 'What a moron' story." But now I kind of want to smack the soon-to-be-ex-wife.

The wife moves out and files for divorce. After that, the husband starts dating a woman and sends her flowers. A few months later, he and the wife reconcile and she moves back in. Then 1-800-Flowers sends her a thank-you note. When she doesn't know what for, they send her a copy of the note that went with the flowers, and she gets pissed and files for divorce again, this time asking for more money for infidelity.

I'm sorry, WHAT?! You were filing for divorce from the man.

*headdesk*

Comments

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

She's calling it infidelity while he was dating when they'd broken up?!

Argh.

[gruyere.livejournal.com]

"We were on a break!"

[poisontaster]

HA! That was EXACTLY the first thing I thought of too! *giggles*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. :)

[sarah82.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard the part where she filed for divorce before the flowers went out. That's unbelievable.

Something tells me, even if the flower company hadn't been involved, this marriage was gonna be over soon anyways.

The world is full of stupid.

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

As the man said, 'The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.'

[eh-notsomuch.livejournal.com]

Reallllly? I also hadn't heard the part about where she'd moved out, then moved back in! If they hadn't set up rules about dating while separated, it sure isn't 1-800-Flowers' fault.

[fallofrain.livejournal.com]

Quite frankly, they're both stupid, and it's not 1-800-FLOWERS fault one bit. They were just trying to practice good customer service.

(And if he was seeing this woman while trying to reconcile with his wife, he's just as much a moron as she is. Oh, and if he wasn't doing anything wrong, why try to hide it?)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The question, though, was he trying to reconcile with his wife at the time? It's possible they could have decided to try it later.

And yeah, he was stupid not to tell her, but on the other hand what he does with his own time when as far as he knows they're getting a divorce is his own problem. Maybe they were trying to get back together, maybe it came later, but from what's it in the article we don't know.

I do agree that blaming 1-800-Flowers is dumb, but then again I get where the anger's coming from. God knows if I were him I might be pissed enough to sue, too. (Granted, I also get where her anger is coming from, but then again that attitude about who your on-again off-again SO sleeps with when you're not on-again grates on my every last nerve.)

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Weeellll, actually? The guy may have a case.

Aside from it being pretty much common knowledge philandering husbands send flowers to their mistresses? And that's debatable here whether he was screwing around during the marriage or after she movied out.

The wife should not have gotten the receipt or note from 1-800-FLOWERS without them confirming she's the one they were originally sent to by the person whose account it was...and verifying that it was okay by the account holder to do so.

That's the sort of security breach that would get people fired in other internet related companies.

[umetnica.livejournal.com]

The article I saw about this didn't say he started seeing the girlfriend after the original filing nor that they reconciled. Hmmm.

[spn-snark.livejournal.com]

Kinda hard to tell from the context, but I know that in some places (my home state, for example), evidence of an affair *after* you separate (but before the divorce is final) can be used to show that you were cheating when you were still together. which, you know, can definitely toss a bit of alimony into the mix. (or could have been the reason for the separation to begin with)

also, the note she wrote to him on the receipt (kind of confused by that, but whatever) said something about him still having the girl's number in his phone. and yeah, I can see not having a leg to stand on if she's bitching about who he messed around with after they split - but if they're trying to reconcile, and he's still involved with the chick? totally not cool.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

This is the whole thing that bothers me about the whole "we were trying to reconcile" issue -- she moved out and filed for divorce because she wanted to get back together with him? I mean, the whole situation has a lot of "he said, she said" going on, and I don't know ... just something about her story still doesn't work for me the more I hear of it.

And as for the phone number, he could have still been seeing her, but he could also have forgotten to take it out what with all the reconciling. The guy doesn't seem like the sharpest tool in the box as it is, so. *shrugs*