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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MarshmallowsLast year an ex got a new job only a few weeks before christmas. Orientation was a nightmare and she was working every hour that god sent not to have her contract terminated. She worked up until lunch time on Christmas Eve and then made a frantic dash from one end of the country to the other to be home in time for the big day. She made it to the pub at about ten that night, we'd been drinking all day and I was slightly the worse for wear. After telling us all her story of woe she asked me the oddest question. "Do you like marshmallows?" Being drunk I answered honestly. "Christ no, I fucking hate them! They taste like little clouds of vomit!"
Guess what I unwrapped from her the next day? The poor thing had been worked so hard she'd had to do all her christmas shopping at a motorway services on the way home. I felt so guilty I couldn't look her in the eye until the new year.
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Gleeballs is mostly made out of chocolate and hate., Fri 23 Dec 2005, 19:11,
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