Post by Jenny on Dec 9, 2009 7:16:52 GMT
There is much debate on whether internet shopping is better than the high street. After facing a crowded supermarket, with screaming kids and harrassed mothers & people standing blocking aisles etc, I know which one I prefer 
the friendly van driver coming to my door!
I read this letter on the same subject and it is very true...
Hmm. Me and my girlfriend went out on Saturday afternoon with the intention of buying some gifts...having been confronted with drivers cutting in to the car park queue, road rage, parking problems, broken lifts from the rooftop floor, getting my toes stamped on with no apology, being barged by mothers using a child in a buggy as a battering ram, my girlfriend being knocked out of the way by one of said child-rams (in a shop), the central heating in the stores set so that it vaporises most of the moisture in the human body, shop staff that merely grunt and frown, shop staff that would rather be anywhere else and have no shame in letting you know it (via grunting and frown signals), a lopsided heroic failure of a town centre Xmas tree, no Woolworths, a man hacking and retching in WHSmith all over the magazines, other people that refused to catch-kill-and-bin it, a tepid overpriced coffee, more screaming children, a headache (each),a man with a TOUGH GUY sticker on his bumper that didn't understand the phrase 'pay at machine before collecting your car' until he was nudging an immovable exit barrier, depression, anxiety, no goods (apart from AA batteries, a magazine and two vintage radio tins of Marks and Spencer bisuits) and two hours forever lost...
..we got in and got the laptops out...
sitting in a warm lounge with red wine and debit card, we got some darn fine gifts..so it's online shopping for me..but wait!
I bet there will be a postal strike.
What do you reckon, which one do you prefer? I know you can certainly save a lot on lower prices via the net
the friendly van driver coming to my door!I read this letter on the same subject and it is very true...
Hmm. Me and my girlfriend went out on Saturday afternoon with the intention of buying some gifts...having been confronted with drivers cutting in to the car park queue, road rage, parking problems, broken lifts from the rooftop floor, getting my toes stamped on with no apology, being barged by mothers using a child in a buggy as a battering ram, my girlfriend being knocked out of the way by one of said child-rams (in a shop), the central heating in the stores set so that it vaporises most of the moisture in the human body, shop staff that merely grunt and frown, shop staff that would rather be anywhere else and have no shame in letting you know it (via grunting and frown signals), a lopsided heroic failure of a town centre Xmas tree, no Woolworths, a man hacking and retching in WHSmith all over the magazines, other people that refused to catch-kill-and-bin it, a tepid overpriced coffee, more screaming children, a headache (each),a man with a TOUGH GUY sticker on his bumper that didn't understand the phrase 'pay at machine before collecting your car' until he was nudging an immovable exit barrier, depression, anxiety, no goods (apart from AA batteries, a magazine and two vintage radio tins of Marks and Spencer bisuits) and two hours forever lost...
..we got in and got the laptops out...
sitting in a warm lounge with red wine and debit card, we got some darn fine gifts..so it's online shopping for me..but wait!
I bet there will be a postal strike.
What do you reckon, which one do you prefer? I know you can certainly save a lot on lower prices via the net
