I wouldn't say they were a waste of money. Not from the effect they have on people.
I was in hospital for a fortnight and I got my nurses a massive bunch of flowers when I left. 2 of them cried (one was the miserable cow who I really didn't like, I was actually shocked), I got a hug from them all. They searched the ward for a vase and then one of them sorted them all out.
When I went back to see my Cardiologist a week later they were still proudly on display and two more nurses who weren't on that day both thanked me and gave me a hug.
These women literally saved my life and a £25 bunch of flowers had them happier than pigs in shit. I'd pay ten times that amount to see them like that again.
( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 12:41, 1 reply)

Aw
That's a lovely inversion of the original question:)
(moosefish, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 19:47, closed)

They honestly deserved it.

( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Sun 3 Oct 2010, 20:10, closed)