Amy spotted this attached to a mailbox in Monroe, North Carolina. Writes amy: “I have no idea which flower it was (there were many that were still left on the porch), but I was impressed by the effort the victim took with this note — it was written on poster board and left up for quite a few days.”
(And the posterboard…was a birthday gift…purchased with her own money!!!)
related: “no” questions asked

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#1
Canthz_B
I hope it was a silk flower, otherwise maybe it just crawled off to die.
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:24 pm rating: 4
#2
nikohl
That last part really hammers home the guilt, huh.
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:24 pm rating: 7
#3
Woman on the Verge
Okay, so this flower was so important to you that you erect a monument in its honor… But you claim that if the thief had asked, you would have given the flower up. Isn’t that a little passive-aggressive towards your little girl?
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:27 pm rating: 42
#4
Canthz_B
“y”s…to curl the tail, or not to curl the tail?…that is the question.
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:30 pm rating: 11
#5
Quite Contrary
Please note that her “little girl” is 46 years old and lives 500 miles away (for a reason). Never mind. That’s about me and my mother.
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:33 pm rating: 35
#6
Mishee
Good thing this wasn’t my mother… she wouldn’t have left a note, but instead set up a hidden camera, left something out there as bait, caught the culprit, slapped them around a little, and then cussed them out and gave them the finger…
*sigh*
I love my mom.
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:54 pm rating: 25
#7
Squirrel Nutkin
My cat immediately knows when I bring flowers or plants into the house. No matter how strategically out of reach I place them, she finds a way to snatch a stem or two, then gnaws on them in her kitty hideout. It could be that this person jumped to a very hasty (and sadly cynical) conclusion.
Mar 4, 2009 at 8:55 pm rating: 6
#8
Lorelie
200 PA points lost for use of a frowny face at the end rather than smiley.
Mar 4, 2009 at 9:01 pm rating: 19
#9
lightspeed
“To the person who stole my flower”…
I’m not sure I’d write about losing your virginity so publicly on poster board. So weird for a little girl to pay for that too.
Mar 4, 2009 at 9:21 pm rating: 64
#10
BILL
Some sorry, sorry people out there…. stealing flowers. What, the blind guy had an attack dog?
Mar 4, 2009 at 9:34 pm rating: 5
#11
secondsout
This is a conflicted mom. First she leaves this whiny message about how someone stole the flower her daughter gave her. Then in the same message she says she would have given the flower away. Shows how much you care about the flower, eh, mom?
Mar 4, 2009 at 9:50 pm rating: 14
#12
Elaine
The gift was so important that she would have given it if the flower thief had asked! Poor little girl.
Nice to see a variation on the smiley theme, though.
Mar 4, 2009 at 9:53 pm rating: 1
#13
teeg
Why were the flowers outside anyway? Was it a bouquet of fresh-cut flowers and one went missing and it just happened to be one her daughter bought? Would you leave flowers outdoors if they weren’t planted firmly in the ground? I am tired and the possible scenarios are just confusing me.
Mar 4, 2009 at 9:59 pm rating: 6
#14
aaa
I bet some dog took off with it, ate it, and yarked it back up a block away.
Mar 4, 2009 at 10:34 pm rating: 18
#15
Alex
now that’s just… sad. :’( (and what loser steals a flower?!)
Mar 4, 2009 at 10:48 pm rating: 5
#16
meme
it wasn’t a real flower– it was one of those tacky garden stakes that little kids are so drawn to.
Mar 5, 2009 at 12:40 am rating: 2
#17
Ravenlynne
That flower was delicious!
Mar 5, 2009 at 1:25 am rating: 0
#18
Kasdaye
I’m thinking maybe someone saw the note after the original theft, went out and bought another bouqet. Just to make the mom, or dad, feel better.
Mar 5, 2009 at 3:19 am rating: 1
#19
claw71
Is it the mom or the daughter who has been deflowered in this situation? And how old is this daughter anyway? I guess down south it doesn’t matter but I’d like to know, just for a frame of reference when I file this away in my spank bank.
Mar 5, 2009 at 8:20 am rating: 7
#20
Meesh
What’s great is that the mom is setting a good PA example for her daughter. If life gives you lemons, make a PAN!
Mar 5, 2009 at 9:55 am rating: 3
#21
Eva
How did the little girl get her own money? Mom’s only real responsibility was to keep her daughter off the pole.
Mar 5, 2009 at 10:05 am rating: 4
#22
claw71
And of course the husband wishes somebody would come along and take the rest of the flowers, his bitchy wife and that mongoloid, flower-buying daughter of his that’s always wetting herself during American Idol.
Mar 5, 2009 at 10:28 am rating: 5
#23
TPS
Wouldn’t she feel awful if knowing that the flower went to a dying grandmother down the street.
Mar 5, 2009 at 1:18 pm rating: 1
#24
Afro
I don’t know what my mum would have done, but I know if it was me that stole the flower, I would have come back with a bouquet and huge apologies
…
excuse me, there’s something in my eye
Mar 5, 2009 at 4:43 pm rating: 2
#25
Bernd das Brot
I think the person who stole the flower was the little girl from down the street who had used her own money to buy a Hannah Montana doll but needed a birthday gift for her mother.
Mar 5, 2009 at 5:09 pm rating: 8
#26
Frankie
I’m so sad for her. That poor little girl must have been devastated.
Mar 5, 2009 at 5:46 pm rating: 3
#27
Quite Contrary
Actually, it was the “little girl”/daughter who stole the flower because the mother was upset that the daughter bought her carnations instead of roses.
Mar 5, 2009 at 8:33 pm rating: 0
#28
Griffen P.
That flower was fucking delicious!
Lolz!
I cooked it up in my frying pan! LMAOROFL!
Mar 6, 2009 at 4:27 am rating: 0
#29
secondsout
Don’t tell the mom that it was just a dandelion, and that the girl picked it out of the back yard anyway.
Mar 6, 2009 at 1:02 pm rating: 1
#30
kris
ahaha i live around monroe! whereabouts was this in town?
Mar 6, 2009 at 4:17 pm rating: 0
#31
bevgrey
Lots of people call plants flowers. Guess nobody ever bothered to teach them the difference.
Mar 6, 2009 at 4:42 pm rating: 0
#32
In your ear
Hey Mom. It was just a flower, dummy. Deal with it.
Mar 6, 2009 at 10:06 pm rating: 0
#33
BingoMath
damn you sick robber!
Mar 9, 2009 at 3:53 pm rating: 0
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