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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Panic BuyingThere would be the massive amount of medical supplies which I was given before I went to Denmark to train to do development work in Africa (that went tits up, but that's another story). It damn near took up half my rucksack. A big army bergen rucksack. My Mum must've been raiding the NHS storecupboards for months for that amount of paracetamol...
I did trigger panic buying once. In college, I started a rumour the TV license people were going round (hearing the collective slamming of doors and hiding of TVs on a very large uni campus is a sight to see, let me tell you). Much panic buying of TV licenses ensued from that one. Hey, I was doing them a favour! Ish.
And for myself, I once panic bought a shitload of pasta because I was sure I was going to run out of money at uni. Not only did I not run out of money (thanks Dad!) I also ended up not opening the bags (yes, bags- bags 3 kilos in weight that is- 5 of them!). Oh well... my family were sorted for pasta for months. I on the other hand ended up being known as Luigi for a time as people thought I had some kind of pasta fetish. Nice.
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jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 23 Dec 2005, 15:48,
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