Panic BuyingIt's the last shopping day before the whole country shuts down for christmas. You've been looking all over for something, anything, to buy your favourite person. Something that says you care, that makes them see you in a new light.
Well, something that won't make them punch you would do. My brother-in-law once bought his wife a bin for her birthday - it was a very nice bin, but boy was he in the crud for days.
What have you bought in sheer panic and desperation? Go on, you know you do it every year.
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chthonic, Fri 23 Dec 2005, 15:10)
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Not so much panic buying as panic opening...My grandfather died about 5 years ago; nothing particularly interesting about that. Every Christmas though, my mum manages to make a comment to my father (whose father he was) which results in cringing from the rest of the people present. And tears from my father. Recent tear-jerkers have included:
"Your father would have loved that"
"It's not the same without him, is it?"
"I remember when I get you a wheelbarrow for xmas and I took so much effort to make sure that you didn't know what it was. I even hid it in the neighbour's garage. Then on Christmas morning, upon seeing the big wrapped up parcel, your father said 'IT'S A WHEELBARROW!'."
My mum always makes people cry.
(, Sat 24 Dec 2005, 10:26, Reply)
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