Broken Wing

Rose market

There is a shop that sells roses which I drive by every time I go golfing. They post a sign outside on the street listing the current price per a dozen. One time, on the way to golf, the sign said $10/dozen. I thought, wow, what a good deal. Then, on the way back (about four hours later), the sign read $10/2 dozen. Ten dollars for two dozen roses! Can you believe that? They could probably take the soil that those roses were grown in and sell it for more than that. Hell, I've sold my excrement for more than that (don't ask).

But even more amazing to me than the insanely low prices on these roses was their incredible fluctuation. Roses went from $10/dozen to $5/dozen in four hours! What could have possibly happened in that four hour period to affect the value of roses that much? Did everybody in the world catch some olfactory disease that suddenly makes roses smell like limberger cheese? Did scientists discover that roses cause gonorrhea?

Even if there were some amazing discovery about roses that drives the price that low, four hours is just an enormously short time period for price change. I don't know how it occurs. Are there people on Wall Street trading roses alongside gold and pork bellies and such? Because thats the only way I can imagine the price going down so fast. I waited around the rose store for another eight hours because I figured by that time they would be paying me $5 to take a dozen roses. Posted by mill1991 at August 24, 2004 1:41 PM