So I have this dumb plant that sits on my desk. It's a pink orchid. It's from World Market, but I got it at Walgreens for $5 as an impulse buy while I was standing in line one day.
I've had this thing for like 3 years now, and for some reason I've kind of become attached to it. It adds a nice splash of color to my desk, and it looks real, so everyone who comes by is always asking me if they can touch it to see if it's real.
When I came in on Monday it was missing. I didn't even notice until a few hours after I'd been sitting at my desk. So I sent out an office email just saying, if anyone had it, that I would give a reward for returning it. I was thinking someone probably borrowed it for some weird reason, who knows, and forgot to give it back.
Turns out, the cleaning person on the weekends had accidentally knocked it over and broke the base. When I found out what happened, I told Carlos (our maintenance man), not to worry about it, it was no big deal, I would get another. Well Carlos said, the cleaning person felt really badly about it and was making me a new base for the my plant, and he just needed to paint it and then he would bring it back! I couldn't believe it. I felt so bad, that poor guy was probably really worried, and went through all that trouble to make a new base for my stupid $5 plant.
Well it looks great now, and it's probably worth more than $5, since it has a hand crafted pot! I will have to make him some baked goods to thank him.
