A group of Trappists monks couldn't keep up on their
belfry payments...so they decided to open a florist shop and
sell flowers to raise money. Well, they did really well
because after all, everyone wants to support the Men of God.
However, the one other florist in this small town really
took a hit...his business was in a nose-dive, and so he went
to the brothers and pleaded with them to start baking bread,
wine, caramels...anything but be in the florist business!
Well, they decided they were happy selling flowers. So the
florist sent his mother and she, too, pleaded with them.
Nope, they were not inclined to stop their lucrative
business.
So the desperate florist felt he had only one more recourse:
send the biggest, meanest, ugliest, most obnoxious bully in
town, Hugh McTaggart, to convince them. McTaggart trashed
their florist shop, beat up all the brothers and they,
terrified, decided to retire from the flower business.
Which just goes to show: Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent
florist friars.
