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tmcgForeword: I hate shopping. I am a commando shopper. I shop at strange hours and in terrible weather, when no sane person would go to the store. I get in, get what I need, and get out. The only kind of shopping I enjoy is online shopping. I'm online all the time anyway. It's easy. Someone else carries it. My SO is a coupon hound who likes to shop and is completely appalled by my unthrifty shopping methods. That said...
Kohl's had a humungo early-bird sale today. It included one expensive, somewhat heavy item someone on my holiday list asked for, at less than fifty percent of the regular price. Plus I had (gasp) a coupon. The sale and the coupon were both good online, and the price would qualify me for free shipping. So when the alarm went off at whatever ungodly hour I'd set it for, thinking I'd go to Kohl's for the sale (the store opened, literally, at the crack of dawn), I thought, Am I nuts? I'll order online and let UPS schlepp the thing. The sale was good till 11am. Plenty of time.
Guess whose server decided to crash under the onslaught of armchair salemongers? Guess whose server still wasn't accessible at 10:30?
Guess who spent the biggest shopping day of the year doing the stupidest thing you can possibly do that day (go to a physical store)?
And to think I used to spend the day after Thanksgiving marching in anti-fur demonstrations.
Kohl's had a humungo early-bird sale today. It included one expensive, somewhat heavy item someone on my holiday list asked for, at less than fifty percent of the regular price. Plus I had (gasp) a coupon. The sale and the coupon were both good online, and the price would qualify me for free shipping. So when the alarm went off at whatever ungodly hour I'd set it for, thinking I'd go to Kohl's for the sale (the store opened, literally, at the crack of dawn), I thought, Am I nuts? I'll order online and let UPS schlepp the thing. The sale was good till 11am. Plenty of time.
Guess whose server decided to crash under the onslaught of armchair salemongers? Guess whose server still wasn't accessible at 10:30?
Guess who spent the biggest shopping day of the year doing the stupidest thing you can possibly do that day (go to a physical store)?
And to think I used to spend the day after Thanksgiving marching in anti-fur demonstrations.
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Date: 2002-12-02 05:20 pm (UTC)Either we're getting older (well, duh) or more suburban (kill me now--how about you?) I hate shopping as much as I hate going to the post office, or cleaning the tub, and slightly less than going to the dentist.
So you're brave to try it, especially this time of year.
I was waiting for the express bus across from Macy's the day before Thanksgiving. They (they who?) were having some sort of pre-parade event that involved seemingly thousands of girls (from Iowa or some such place) all dressed alike and teeming two-by-two all over the sidewalks. All the sidewalks.
I have to admit I shoved my way through them, bodily, with an angry "move it!" just to get to my stop. Lots of holiday cheer.
Wish I had that SUV. Then again, I might be calling you for bond money right now *g*.
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Date: 2002-12-04 12:37 am (UTC)I'm constantly bemused by my increasing suburbanity. But I'm so weird compared with my neighbors that I think I'm probably safe. I haven't bought a station wagon yet. The moment I do that, you are hereby instructed to hold a crossbow to my head.
You get bond money any time you need. :)