Here's a short story from the time when I was fundraising for a school trip to Europe (back in 2006-2007):
Me, Meaghan and Samantha were selling tickets at Superstore, we had a little table set up near the entrence doors. Our friend Jake was also there, for whatever reason (I don't think he was selling tickets with us at the time, he was just at the store).
So we had been there for a while, and we figured that it must have been prom night or something because there were a bunch of teenagers coming in dressed in tuxes and fancy dresses (so this might have taken place around June 2006).
The teenagers were there buying corsages for the prom, something we didn't really catch onto until we saw people leaving with them. Then we started talking about how it must have been prom night at the local high school, or something.
Of course, none of us could remember the word 'corsage'. So we started talking about 'those things' and trying to figure out what the word was.
'Carnation' was my guess, and that's what we were leaning to when a teenage boy wearing a tux came out and decided to buy some tickets from us. He had a corsage with him and put it on the table to fill out his tickets. Somewhere around this time is when Jake came out with his suggestion: croissant. We all argued back and forth about it until the teenage boy told us it was called a corsage.
We all had a laugh about it and thanked the boy for buying tickets.
Then we told him that we hoped his girlfriend would like the corsage, and he told us that he hoped the same thing.
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