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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Most years I manage to buy presents well in advance.This year, however, I had absolutely no idea what to buy my parents, and still had nothing on the 23rd. To make things much worse, though, that night I had gone to a friend's Christmas bash, starting drinking about 7pm, then gone out clubbing with another set of friends with the usual excessive intake of spirits, and finally, about 2am, taken up a kind offer to go back to their house for more booze and smoke from a well known plant. After another pint of whiskey and coke and a couple of joints, I went to sleep about 6am, only to get up again at 11.
Thus it was that I ended up wandering around town for several hours, still quite drunk and stoned, not to mention very tired, desperately trying to work out what to buy as presents. I must have visited every major shop in town about 4 times just to stand there looking dazed without buying anything. In the end I bought Fruit Allsorts (her favourite sweets) and a book on computers (I am always being asked for help with them) for my mum, and a book on the universe with lots of cool pictures of nebulas and things for my dad.
I think that was quite a success.
(, Mon 2 Jan 2006, 16:55, Reply)
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