Hahaha,

All this talk of roses reminds me of a story my French teacher once told us about a massive booboo an English guy made with one of her friends. Basically, in France chrysanthemums (sp?) are the flowers of the dead, you put them on peoples graves etc... and to give one to a living person is tantamount to saying I wish you were dead. So this guy turns up for a date with this french woman with a MASSIVE bunch of, you guessed it, chrysanthemums. Apparently she wasn't too impressed.