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i can shop alright!

Filed under around town, being Colin Brooks, daily, humorous.

I had promised myself I’d go shopping this Saturday. In fact I had been trying to go shopping for a couple of weeks but never got round to it until this weekend and boy did I shop. I suppose to some people this is no major achievement but to me it is. I cannot just go out and shop. It takes me forever to make up my mind and buy something I like. I keep leaving the shop and going back some other day (usually by then they have completely changed their stock and I’m back on square one). I rarely practice impulse buying probably because I think too much and know I will regret it very soon. I usually just manage to buy one (if any) item per outing so this time I was very impressed with myself!

5 hours, 10 items and £220 after I left the house, I returned to realise that my feet were hurting and that I had forgotten to get anything resembling foodstuff apart from water (hydration is big these days isn’t it?). I put the bags on the sofa and took a picture but thought that this wouldn’t be enough:

so I then proceeded to take everything out of the bags and placed it neatly on a table forming my very own shop display:

and I did it all for you.

Written by Colin Brooks on 27.03.07 at 8:23 pm.

6 Responses to “i can shop alright!”

Hugh said:

excellent - i feel really appreciated now

so now i know what to look out for, when i wander around town - my only question ( at the moment) is what is that on the chair?

and GET YOUR SHOES OFF THE TABLE :p

I’m knackered, this one hour lost sleep has played chaos with my sleeping - and after 2 tiring days, i’m off to bed :))
Commented on March 27th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Colin Brooks said:

Oh, that thing on the chair? I know it looks a bit like a tablecloth but it’s actually an Arabic scarf. It was too big to lay it out on the table.

haha, don’t worry my shoes were brand new at the time. today is the first time I wear them and by the end of the day my feet will surely have organised an assassination attempt towards me.

how did you lose an hour of sleep? I hope it’s not all because of working too much.

Commented on March 28th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Hugh said:

Arabic Scarf - Keffiyeh
i though it might be one of those

clocks going forward last sunday? = loss of 1 hours sleep

i shop like that, but tend to research what i want, where it will be, get into town, pick it up, pay for it and then get out - i hate shopping with the same passion that most people like it

i seem to work in blocks at the moment - 3 days on 4 days off, 3 days on, 4 days off again this week :))

it that one of those tie up thingies for the curtain on the wall?
Commented on March 28th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Adrian said:

I too find it difficult to shop, not just because I’m a poverty stricken student either. Sometimes I will spend hours window shopping and then go home with nothing and feel disappointed, othertimes I just waltz in, see something that I think is fantastic and snap it up. That’s usually the case with shoes (but it does happen with more than shoes), I look for something for ages, can’t find anything that I’m happy with and then one day while I’m in town looking for something else I see a pair that I want and WHAM!
Commented on March 29th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Colin Brooks said:

Hugh :: I didn’t know these scarves had a name, as for the time change last weekend it didn’t affect me at all! You’re lucky to be working like that. I have to be at work every day from 8:45 to 17:30 but at least I don’t have to work weekends. Yes, that on the wall is one of those “tie up thingies for the curtain”.

Adrian :: I am exactly the opposite with shoes. I never like the shoes I see! Except for last Saturday when I liked too many pairs but had to hold myself back a bit and only get one pair. I may be working full time but technically I am a student like you and my salary is not that good.

Commented on March 29th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Hugh said:

there is various spellings of the word - i only know because my dad has one, when he went to Egypt.

that would drive me mad working set patterns - i like having days of duringthe week, when everybody is at work, and its nicer to go into town
Commented on March 29th, 2007 at 11:49 pm