I thought she said 9 and that was fine with me. I know she can use it, it's nothing to me.
I don't buy flowers but it may be something that changes for me when sweet old ladies are selling them out of their own garden. I give a coin or two to beggars where I pass them and they seem legit good hearted people in a pickle.
It made me cry all the way home thinking of how things are for her. No harm in hurting her pride a little.