Bookworm on Mar 14 2010 at 5:28 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Hours spent shopping with the kids — it’s times like this that I’m sorry I’m not a drinker, ’cause I could use some liquid help right now. I HATE shopping!!!
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(Self-promotion alert) I just posted a bunch of interesting links at Photon Courier. If you want to take a few minutes off from politics and the economy, check out the essay on color, the GE art contest, and the photos of bygone British industry. http://www.photoncourier.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_photoncourier_archive.html#6384508247994022684
I think our attitudes toward shopping depend on the type of shopping, and that, in turn, is influenced by the possibilities we see opening up before us as a result of our potential purchases. (This deep thesis was formed several minutes ago, and has stood the test of time quite well so far.)
For example, I can spend 90 minutes wandering around a hardware store in relative fascination at the things that might be, and the things that already are, but could be much easier. A trip to the grocery store is much more routine, but still holds out similar possibilities for new creations.
A trip to the mall, to be made only when necessary, is much different. Most of the “things that might be” there are more marketing than substance. If the target store is known, park as near to the nearest entrance as possible, infiltrate, get the goods, and exfiltrate. Click, click, click. Kinda like a raid on a small Roman garrison, but less exciting and more annoying. Try to have patience with the stall-stalkers who will stop and hold up 20 cars behind them for three minutes at the sight of someone on foot (who therefore might be walking to their car!) when two floors up, there is more than enough parking for everyone. Try to have patience with the large gaggles who spread out across half the mall and walk at 0.8 mph, neither noticing nor caring that there might be people behind them who would like to go just a bit faster.
Ah, but hardware!
(Yes, I understand that an open thread can be about anything, but the sole seed planted in an empty garden is the one most likely to grow.)
Spartacus
You planted a big smile on my face – very very funny.
On the other hand, shopping should always be a lone adventure. If one must bring children, there’s always the risk that they can go AWOL creating a day of constant divided attention to the breaking point.
Book ..how about a nice glass of Alka Seltzer with a ginger ale chaser.
Behold! It’s all here and …
http://budget.house.gov/doc-library/FY2010/03.15.2010_reconciliation2010.PDF
… just in case for $31.50
http://www.amazon.com/American-College-Physicians-Complete-Medical/dp/0789496739/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
“(This deep thesis was formed several minutes ago, and has stood the test of time quite well so far.)”
Cracks me UP! What a sweet little essay, Spartacus.
I divide shopping into two categories…Looking _for_, and looking _at_. Looking _for_ is not fun shopping. You go in, buy and get out. Wash rinse repeat if you don’t find what you’re looking for. Looking _at_, now…that’s a different story! That’s _fun_ shopping! You pick a store that you expect to have good stuff, and then look and look. Compare quality, compare prices, see new stuff…that’s fun!
I found a new Costco last week called a “Business Center”. It’s a new store, so the name alone perked my interest …why the different nomenclature? I also needed some stuff for _our_ store, so if it’s a business center, what does it have that Office Depot doesn’t? Or do they have it cheaper? so… I was both looking _for_ and looking _at_. Found most of what I needed, but not all. Have to go to OD to get Fax film and Pentel white out. But the Business Center turned out to be more of a wholesale center for restaurant businesses. My local Costco is the usual big box with racks of stuff on the sides. The center of the store has clothing, linens, DVDs, books, seasonal stuff. Well…this store had the center completely clear of that kind of stuff, and was filled with snack foods! The whole area! I’ve never seen so much snack food in my life! And the walk in refrigerated area was about 75 ft wide by about 200 feet long. (I’m sort of challenged when it comes to estimating area, but when in doubt, in this case imagine larger rather than smaller!) They even had Costco orange glowy jackets outside the doors for customers! I was like a kid in a candy store…literally!! They had some super cooking utensils – excellent quality, though a bit large and heavy for a normal family. I’d have loved to have some of the stuff when I had all the kids at home, but now – with only two usually – it’s too big. One in particular, though…a pot about 6-8 inches deep and 12-14 inches in diameter called my name…I’m sure I heard it! It was of a heavy stainless steel material, beautifully smooth, and the inside/outside edges were rounded so that you didn’t have any places where it might be hard to scrub stuck stuff. No way I can justify buying it, but it sure was nice. Lots of gadgets I wasn’t familiar with. A coffee press…it looks like a tiny barbell – about 6 inches total length, with flat discs at each end. The card it was mounted on said it was just what you needed to make expresso. You need to pack the coffee for expresso? I didn’t know that! Anyway…I didn’t buy a whole lot more than I actually needed, but had a lot of fun browsing. It’s pretty far away – and that’s probably a good thing – but I’ll be baaacck. Bound to be _something_ someone would enjoy for Christmas!
Q. What’s the difference between Donna and Congress?
An obese mother in the US is trying to put on weight in order to become the world’s fattest woman.
Donna Simpson, from New Jersey, weighs 273kg but told the Daily Mail newspaper she had her heart set on reaching her goal weight of 1000lb (450kg) in two years.
The 42-year-old already holds the title of the world’s fattest mother after giving birth to her daughter in 2007 when she weighed 241kg.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1027360/woman-aims-to-become-worlds-fattest
A. Donna doesn’t expect me to buy her Twinkies.
suek, I thought of you when I read this
I’ve never seen so much snack food in my life!
Here’s my favorite snack site. Everything and anything (almost) from childhood can still be had, even my Teaberry Gum, which is useless to me now since I haven’t chewed gum in 30 years.
http://www.hometownfavorites.com/
Obama’s going to have to shake that place down and shut it down, Sadie. he can’t have people be clinging to their town favorites and junk.