Today was a pretty great day. I went for a walk, bowling, and saw a movie for only 1 dollar. All this and with friends that I hardly ever get to see. This is the sort of day that, for me anyway, doesn’t come around all that often. Sometimes, I actually get pretty bored. Now, lets take the life of a normal housefly. Sure, they may only live for about a week or two, but I bet its a pretty good time since they don’t have to eat anything and they have to do all their procreation in that time. I am not saying that my life is radically different than this, I was just making a superfluous observation.
I think that I (and other men as well) tend to approach shopping from a different perspective than say, women. This often means that I don’t approach shopping at all. If the situation becomes dire enough that I actually have to venture into the modern day structure known as a shopping mall, its probably because either : (1) somebody is dragging me along with them, (2) articles of my clothing are actually tattered to an extent where they are falling from my body, or (3) I am lost again and need help finding my way home. Don’t be alarmed, I was actually kidding about number… 2. I tend to approach shopping much like a “smash and grab” robbery. I know what I want going in. I know approximately where to find it. I go in, get it, and leave with haste. Now, this is different than those other people who treat the experience as shopping in a much different way. If we were to continue the robbery analogy, these “other” people would go into the bank looking for money. They would then be distracted by all the other features that the bank offers. Mutual funds, RRSP’s, the rise and fall of the interest rates, the new arrangement of the withdrawl slips. Sure, they may emerge hours later with the money (and likely with a LOT of other things the bank may offer), but by then the reasonable time limit has expired and the cops have surrounded the building. IF we were to continue this even further, the getaway driver would end up paying for all of the aforementioned “crimes”.
I think I carried this slightly too far. My analogies start off ok, but then they tend to carry the reader on a ride like a runaway bobsled to hell.
I am attempting to steer my meager programming skills towards the goal of learning exactly how html tables work. I may go completely mad trying.