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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.
