Blushing brides and cosmonauts don't meet their bitter end

[venta]

Earlier today, I had an email from a hotel who thought I might be tempted by their super-special Valentine's package[*]. Among various epic meals and chocolatey promises, it includes "rose petals on the bed".

To which my reaction was "you what"? Isn't that, like, a really bad idea? Won't they get crushed and stain the bedding? Won't they get stuck to all parties involved? Won't they wrinkle up awkwardly and work themselves into odd corners of the sheets and make it really uncomfortable? Not to mention that they'll probably make me and any other hayfever sufferers sneeze.

Am I just hopelessly unromantic and/or practical? Am I missing an important point? Or is this really just one of those ideas that is far better in theory than practice?

[*] I wasn't. But that's not important right now.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

You are dead behind the eyes.

But then I love all that hearts and flowers crap. I just never seem to inspire it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I also don't inspire it, but I think that's for the best, really :) On account of the pre-orbital death and such.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

See, I'd love to have someone whisk me off for a romantic weekend, rose petals, champagne and all. Sadly I seem doomed to date deeply unromantic people. I think I buy flowers for myself and for my partners more than they buy them for me.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I should state that I'm not anti-romance. It's just that my definition of romance is both very broad (it doesn't have to involve flowers) and very narrow (it has to be something that appeals to me, preferably something peculiar to me and the partner in question). One of the most romantic things someone has ever done for me involved a pile of second-hand CD singles, which I'm sure isn't officially in The Book of Love.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Scattered on the bed? Sounds a bit painful. Although I guess they wouldn't break like vinyl ones would.