Shopping. Most of us do it, and most of us enjoy it. We all like shopping for different things. Me, I like shopping for entertainment and technology. I don’t like shopping for clothes. Evidenced by the fact I have 84 PSOne games, 40 PS2 games, 33 demo discs, 20-30 PC games, seven seasons of Stargate, and atleast 40 other dvds. I have nowhere near as many good clothes.
So today the task was to go shopping for holiday clothes (you have to look good when you’re on holiday right?). Well, I got the same lethargic feeling I always get when I step into a clothes shop. Maybe it’s an invisible disease, some infectious alien spore that’s distributed by the air conditioning or something. Whatever it is, I never get it in the likes of His Master’s Voice or Virgin=)
Not that I don’t like clothes – I love wearing new clothes – I just don’t like buying them: The endless crowds of people, the wrong size, the extortionate prices, the choices or lack thereof. I’m not like every other guy these days. I don’t want the ned style tracksuit and Nike clothes, and I can’t understand the overwhelming popularity of pink clothing for men?! I also don’t like having a brand name slapped across my chest but at the same time I don’t want a cheap knockoff.
I like having cool slogans and symbols on my clothes. There should be more game-related t-shirts. I want to get a Cowboy Bebop t-shirt too but the ones i want seem to be ‘out of stock’ everywhere online.
I managed to get myself a t-shirt, jeans and a fleece today after all my searching, and I have another t-shirt on order that i’m hoping will arrive on time. I’m a very fussy clothes shopper which I why I try to discourage people from accompanying me. I spend a long time repeatedly comparing clothes and shops and trying to decide. There’s a real lack of men’s clothing shops here. For every one there’s two or three women’s stores and much more variety.
Today I simply wanted a non-descript jumper or fleece, but everywhere I looked it was t-shirts (it is summer after all) or grandad-style jumpers. In the end I got a fleece from an adventure store, but it wasn’t on sale so it wasn’t exactly a bargain. It’s comfy though.
The holiday to Nice is fast approaching and we’ve pretty much got everything. We bought a digital camera at the weekend (again I like shopping for technology). It’s pretty decent for the price and I got a memory card from Amazon so we can take lots of pictures.
I got the Euro today that we’re taking as cash for the first weekend and Falling is organising the traveller’s cheques for the bulk of our spending money. We’ll also have money in our bank accounts incase we get desperate.
I was concerned that the hotel didn’t have our booking as the ‘check booking’ section of their website couldn’t find us and Expedia weren’t very easy to contact. I phoned the hotel directly the other evening and dusted off the old French accent. Thankfully they spoke English and had our booking so I can stop worrying now.
I’ve got monday off as it’s a bank holiday and I’ve taken Friday off to travel to London. We fly to Nice on saturday. So here’s hoping the forthcoming three day week goes quickly!
I’ve had Eve running in the background with my Indy mining an asteroid field. I’m now going off to sell the fruits of my labour for what I hope is a tidy sum. If you don’t hear from me before I go on holiday, behave yourself, ya hear?
Au revoir
August 26th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Did you know that EXPEDIA has two “dedicated” websites due to poor customer support and lies: http://www.victimsofexpedia.com and http://www.shameonexpedia.com
and is listed in the top ripoff link at the bad business bureau ( http://www.ripoffreport.com )
Kind regards
August 26th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
I personally never make judgements on reviews alone – only first hand experience can be the real test – i’ll wait and see how the holiday goes.
Interesting to note that that comment comes from “anonymous” – it’s always the ones hidden at the back of the room who shout loudest…