Fools Rush In
Who are these folk who sleep in shop doorways waiting for the start of the post-Christmas sales? I'm told that some of them actually turn up with their Thermos flasks and sleeping bags just as the stores are closing on Christmas Eve - two days before the sales actually begin. I mean, how bad does a family Christmas have to be before you come to prefer camping on the High Street until Boxing Day? I guess the bargains have to be worth the wait. I can't see anyone barging past the shop staff as the doors are unlocked just to get a quid off the Susan Boyle CD.
Or can I?
Anyway the TV and radio news bulletins today were full of stories about the 'Sales Rush' and, depending on who you believed, either a quarter million, half million or three squillion pounds was being spent by shoppers in Scotland alone.
I can tell you that the Zed family contributed to that figure by purchasing goods to the value of sixty-three pounds and forty pence. Not hard cash, you understand. This was all down to me encouraging the Zedettes to redeem the various gift cards and vouchers they had received as Christmas gifts. I was shaken by the collapse of Borders bookshops a few weeks ago and thought it prudent to cash in those cards before any other big-name chains went to the wall. I know this is the kind of foolishness that can actually start a panic,and I'm not proud.
The Eastgate shopping centre in Inverness was where I sent my offspring on their mission to spend. I meanwhile, had my wallet on a time-lock just in case I was led astray by any of those 'massive reductions' signs.
I wasn't.
But the Susan Boyle CD was tempting.
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