Bored of Xmas shopping?

[PMC]

If like me you have a very low tolerance threshold when it comes to shopping, you'll no doubt be overjoyed by the latest innovation to hit the high streets:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4081251.stm

That's right, your significant other can safely leave you in a creche while she goes shopping.  

I normally last about 30 minutes before I crack and become grumpy, distracted and generally miserable.  This may well prove to be my salvation.

[Vincent]

That wouldn't work for me - I get pavement rage too often :-)

[PMC]

Yeah, I'm terrible when I'm in a bad mood.  If I'm shopping for groceries I end up being convinced that people must take a competency test before being unleashed with a shopping trolley.  So many times I go to Tescos and end up stuck in an asile because someone's parked ther shopping in such a way as to block it completely.  

The one thing I can cope with though is shopping for toys.  Having two neices can be a godsend when it comes to birthdays and xmas because you get to spend hours in cool places like Toys R Us.  Having grown up building everything from car chassis to spacecraft out of Lego, I can look forward to being called upon to assemble the "Hogwarts Express" Lego set I bought niece 1 and will no doubt be asked to assist with neice 2's Lego house.

The other coolest thing I've bought lately was a mountain bike for g/f who decided she wanted one...  :-D

[Vincent]

PMC wrote:
If I'm shopping for groceries I end up being convinced that people must take a competency test before being unleashed with a shopping trolley.  So many times I go to Tescos and end up stuck in an asile because someone's parked ther shopping in such a way as to block it completely.

:lol:

That never happens to me - I go shopping to Tescos after 11pm when it's a hell of a lot quieter :-D

I was just in Toys R Us a few weeks back as a mate wanted to get a new PS2 memory card and they were on sale.  Spent a good bit of time looking at all the games, lego etc too :-D

[PMC]

Vincent wrote:
:lol:

That never happens to me - I go shopping to Tescos after 11pm when it's a hell of a lot quieter :-D

I always seem to end up in the queue next to some large woman wearing faded grey leggins being escorted by five delinquent, snot/marmite stained children who are all called "Dwayne".  Her approach to disclipline is either to ignore the little critters while they do everything they can to make grocery shopping ever so slightly more of a miserable experience than it already is, but when she reaches her own tolerance threshold will shout "Dwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyynnnnnnneeee f###ing shuttit awright?".

Or the other one I get is the Johnny No Stars who seems to take four times as long as the other till jockeys to scan my shopping, or will stand up and wave the packet of prophylactics (the sell by on the last pack ran out)/pile ointment (for a friend)/extra thick luxury lavatory paper (a little extravagance) etc and shout at his colleague "Tracy" to get a price for him.

I was just in Toys R Us a few weeks back as a mate wanted to get a new PS2 memory card and they were on sale.  Spent a good bit of time looking at all the games, lego etc too :-D

I very nearly bought my 7 year old niece the Technic Williams F1 car for xmas.  It's so cool, there's a V10 engine with moving pistons, a gearbox, pushrod suspension.  That would have kept my busy through the Queen's Speech.