LONDON - Clare Ross insists she is trying to sell love and romance, not sex. But the windows of her flower shop in Reigate, Surrey, tell a different story.
Ross told The Telegraph newspaper that she new the building she runs her Willows flower shop in was formerly a sex shop, but said there were no signs of that past life at all. At least, not until the windows misted up one morning and the phrase "Licensed Sex Shop" appeared above her "Inerflora" sign.
"We have done everything we can to get rid of it but it just won't go," Ross told The Telegraph. We did everything we could to get rid of the ghostly letters that came back to haunt us."
Ross, who co-owns the floral shop with her mother, said they have hired a professional cleaner, and even tried lighter fluid, gasoline and scouring pads to no avail. The glue used on the old letters has seeped into the glass for good.
"The only way to get rid of it would be to replace the whole window," she told the newspaper. "But now everyone has got used to it, it's become a bit of a talking point. People come in to ask us if we realize there is sex shop emblazoned on our window and end up buying flowers, so maybe we'll keep it."
