I want my money back
Posted on April 30, 2006
Filed Under Rant, health, shopping |
As I complained already, where’s the good weather? It’s not just the weather, it’s everything else. Even shop assistants can be annoying. Don’t pretend this is news to you!
I’m a man who’s reasonably organised* sooo with Friday’s good weather, I thought I’d buy a new ‘coat’ and a pair of shoes at the weekend. I have to be as I don’t have a partner to buy my clothes etc for me. Before ye women get upset, we all know (and accept?) that you buy your partner’s clothes etc to avoid embarrassment when out in public with him.
BTW, by coat, I mean something that’s not a jumper (I’m not that old yet) but something that you wear on top of your shirt/t-shirt during the summer. It’s also a handy place to put your keys, phone etc as I don’t ‘do’ metrosexual handbags, thank you very much.
Buying the shoes was easy. Walked into shoe shop.
I liked pair A (€190) yet pair B (€110) were also nice.
– Me: Do you have pair B in my size.
– Assistant: Yes
– Me: I’ll buy them.
Walked out of shoe shop.
The layout in the last paragraph may seem odd but that’s what happens when you try to be clever and start experimenting with Wordpress blogs/themes/php layouts.
Anyways, back to the coat. After giving 30 mins due consideration, which included 10 mins walking through the Ilac Centre, to this life-altering decision, I decided I needed (?)/wanted a linen sports jacket (to use the trade jargon!).
Walked into clothes shop.
– Me: Do you have that jacket in my size?
–Assistant: (laugh) No, the Summer season is almost sold out.
–Me: It’s the last day of April, for sake!
–Assistant: (smirk) ‘Our’ Summer’ season starts in February.
–Me:
Walked out of clothes shop.
Now, as I’ve said already, I’m reasonably organised: trying to buy a summer jacket in April is, to my mind, Q.E.D. of superior organisation skills! I wash myself and change my clothes daily*. I know how to use an iron. I own, and use, a comb and deodorant. I have a cache of aftershave for special occasions.
* I was going to say I change my underwear every day but it would have been obvious to my female readers that all men do this anyway….right? Post a comment.
You often hear fashion people talk about –inset colour– how is the new black (or whatever, darling). To my simple mind, when did February become June or April become October?
Here comes the bit where every radio DJ struggles – how to find the link between the news headline about some horrible news story and the new Kylie Minogue song. I’ve written this off-line and I was listening to Over The Rhine* while writing it. The weather (it’s sunny somewhere!), the ‘you’re too late’ shop assistant, and Over The Rhine (new city, new friends) made me think about ‘memories’ and ‘fitting in’ and ‘I was happy when…’ Maybe I need to move on again – I’ve lived in Dublin, Naas, Dungarvan, Glasgow, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and for extended periods in Germany.
*Over The Rhine, a Cincinnati band, were the classic big fish in small pond but they are very good.
Maybe isadub will become wasadub?
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