Fit for a queen

Date: 14 Nov 2009
Time: 1150 hrs
Place: Cold Storage, PoMo (ex-Paradiz Centre)

(sorf) We were queueing at the cashier counter when three clueless goth kids (two boys with tattoos and a very over-dressed and booty high-heeled tattooed girl) came in to the Cold Storage and were muttering between themselves and to a friend on the phone something about "coronation". Then the skinny boy went up to a Cold Storage staff and asked him whether the sad stalk of red flower he picked out was a "coronation" flower. We didn't catch what the staff said. Later they went back upstairs and the boy came down again, still on the phone, saying things like "it looks like a sunflower" and "red petals and black in the middle" and insisting that "it's a carnation" and Sorf couldn't take it any more and told him that it was a gerbera daisy. And he looked at her and asked "so do they have carnations?" and Sorf looked around and found a bag of very sad tiny orange carnations and both thought it was very sad. "Are there any carnations" and Sorf said "that's it" and then he asked "are they okay for a Goth photo shoot?" and Sorf looked at the roses and he insisted he did not want roses and so she told him "yes they are okay" and he went to pay. He told his friend on the phone that he went to ask a complete stranger for advice (though it was actually Sorf who initiated it because she was so annoyed by their lack of basic flower knowledge.)