Re: 800 orange tulips

In a message dated 6/7/99 6:16:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jplatta@yahoo.com 
writes:

<< Off the topic..several years ago my sister who lives
 near Atlanta in a pinkish brick house ordered 800
 tulip bulbs from a catalogue.  She told them they
 could mix the colors as long as none of them were
 orange.  They came, she planted them and the following
 spring she was greeted with 800 orange tulips. >>

The real moral of this story is that when you are writing special 
instructions, assume that your order will be filled with the person with the 
least understanding of basic English.  The more complicated you make the 
instructions the less likely they'll understand what you mean.  Actually, 
this is a pretty good rule for giving instructions to anyone about anything.  
I wonder if that order had the word "orange" underline" so that when they 
went to assemble the order, the word "orange" was all they could remember?

(I thought sure you were going to say the replacement order was all orange 
too!)

Bill Lee

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