» Impulse buys

auctions
shortly after moving into a new flat i noticed i walked past this auction-house every day, 'hmmm...' i thinks to myself, 'gotta give that a go sometime' having never been anywhere near one before.
the next week i dragged one of my mates along and we bought our little laminated numbers and proceeded to wander round...
i spotted a few boxes of toy cars (i'm a little boy trapped in the boy of a 34 year-old man)and decided i'd break my bidding cherry on them, on the strength of 'oooh, i used to have that one... ooh! and that one too!!' *clapping*
anyhoo, £8 lighter i'm the owner of 3 boxes of random toy cars. feeling chuffed i nip out for a ciggie. 5 or so minutes later and i stroll back in to see my mate with his card up. while i was gone he'd bought a 3 foot clock (broken, and looking suspiciously like a sunday in the shed effort upon inspection, 6 (count 'em) boxes of assorted ceramic tat, a rocking horse, another box that had an old lamp, a decanter, a tin coffee pot and some other bits and bobs and a bloody massive horrid horrid horrid standing lamp like yer granny might own.
in his own words, when questioned upon the reasoning in all this madness:

'well, no-one else seemed to be bidding on them....'

he'd spent £86, he had to make two trips to get it all home, and its all still untouched in the garage.
(Thu 21st May 2009, 23:33, More)

» Unexpected Nudity

skinny-dipping
....a few years ago my now-ex and i went on a wee camping holiday. we were enjoying our roof-down tor of the highlands, and came across a lovely spot in glen etive (next-door to glencoe) ans decided a wee skinny dip was in order (it was one of those oh-so-rare but cherished REALLY hot days Scotland gets every so often).

we had a classically romantic picnic with us. there was a perfect 'table' of a rock in the middle of the pool we'd ended up in. strawberries, horny behaviour, erm, me being hungry, you geddit i'm sure.......

5 canoeists were treated to something they didn't expect that day......

*blush*
(Mon 1st Jun 2009, 21:40, More)

» Impulse buys

hmmmm...
i've lurked about on b3ta for years, never even bothered with logging, just happy to peruse, but recently made my first post... (although, i think i may have drunkenly commented slightly before that), anyhoo, i'm noticing that this particular qotw is inspiring plenty others in a similar boat up till now to crawl up to some land and light their own little beach fires of interest....... fair enough, but, am i alone in drawing a distinction between an 'impulse buy' and a 'OMG i was so feckin pissed' buy???

all said, i love b3ta, it's t'home of t'best ont'internet....... mwa!!
(Fri 22nd May 2009, 19:31, More)