Drunken buyings.
Hello hello.
I don't know if drunken purchases count as impulse buys, but I clearly remember buying them and I clearly remember thinking they were the puppy's proverbial privates at the time, and even for a few days after.
After one single afternoon on the rum, I once arrived home with a remote controlled tank, a giant stuffed Tigger and a vaguely John Motson-esque coat (thankfully not nearly as expensive as this one).
I woke the next morning and surveyed the monetary carnage, and was mildly impressed with my drunken self. The tank was extremely cool, with a fully functional BB-firing turret, Tigger looked pretty cool slumped in the corner with a hoody on, slightly like a Disney Yoda, and the faux sheepskin coat looked cooler than a ninja cucumber, didn't it? Didn't it?
Unfortunately, after 30 minutes of long-range target practice, the residual charge in the tank had run out, so I dug the charger out of the fluff and polystyrene, only to see the most bizarre plug I have ever seen. To be fair, I've only ever seen two kinds, but this wasn't either of them. I took it to several electrical stores, and none of them could help. Arsebanditry.
A few days later it also emerged that the giant Tigger was intended as a birthday present for a friend. I'd have to give him up as I'd told everyone I was with it was for him, I'd phoned my friend and told him what I'd bought him, and I'd apparently even told Tigger himself, after sitting him at a table and buying him a pint of scrumpy (God knows why, I hate scrumpy. I guess he just looked like a scrumpy kind of guy tiger).
As for the John Motson coat... It was a bloody 3/4 length sheepskin coat, for God's sake! At best, I looked misguided. At worst, I looked like a kiddie fiddler who isn't afraid to advertise.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Thu 21 May 2009, 17:48, 3 replies)

Just clicked on the tigger link
Anyone else notice the

'child not included' at the bottom?

I would have bought it otherwise :-(
(Lolitaslittlesister, Thu 21 May 2009, 20:27, closed)

Dammit!
I've always wanted a child of my own, to go with my John Motson coat...
Um...
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Fri 22 May 2009, 0:03, closed)

you could have bought some black leather gloves
and wandered around saying 'you aint seen me - right?' to people.
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Fri 22 May 2009, 20:54, closed)