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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Blue Peter have nothing on me.Not so much bought, as lovingly crafted ten mins before the gift I forgot to buy is due to be given to my grandad's third wife (he's an octogenarian love machine).
With the speed of a ninja, I gathered:
1. some shiny, cheap satin type material
2. some string
3. some pot-pourri from the jar on the toilet cistern.
4. scissors
Armed with this incredible gift-making arsenal, I set to work. Presto! We now have a tiny draw-string bag, full of pot-pourri. You know, a smelly bag that sits there, smells nice and keeps your underwear drawer smelling fresh, or something. Very nice, I thought. Just the sort of thing old women love.
It all went a bit wrong when, misunderstanding the nature of this amazing gift, Granny mark 3 undid the string holding the bag shut. Pot-pourri went everywhere. Senile old cow.
Next year she retaliated by buying me a brown leather bicycle seat. No, I don't own a bike.
(, Tue 3 Jan 2006, 13:09, Reply)
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