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Less spooky, more stupid
May. 2nd, 2010 11:21 amToday I went to Bunnings (a hardware superstore) to get some glue for my mosaic project. I had a déjà vu moment standing in the glue aisle, with that eerie feeling of 'I've been here before' as I found the glue I wanted, which only came in giant bottles. Then I came home and put my enormous bottle of glue on the laundry bench... right next to an identical bottle of glue that I bought two weeks ago and promptly forgot about. Not so much déjà vu as déjà fait. At any rate, I am sorted for glue for the next fifty years.
After being spoilt with her bumper birthday box a couple of weeks ago, my mother has declared that all she wants for Mother's Day is a goat from Oxfam (as in, she gets a card saying a goat has been sent to someone in Africa, or wherever, although I'd love to see her face if I bought her an actual goat). Easily done. Having been absolved of gift-thinking duty, I haven't been paying attention to the usual Mother's Day catalogues for Inappropriate Gift Ideas, but two things caught my eye this weekend. The first was a fashion spread, in which the writer suggested giving Mum a Hermès scarf because that is the sort of thing that gets passed down from mother to daughter. 'Happy Mother's Day, Mum! Enjoy wearing this scarf that I want to inherit.'
Also, and more egregiously, I saw a commercial last night that suggested that if your mum's washing machine breaks down and your dad is too cheap to buy her a new one, you might like to rent her a new one for Mother's Day. There is so much wrong with that idea.
After being spoilt with her bumper birthday box a couple of weeks ago, my mother has declared that all she wants for Mother's Day is a goat from Oxfam (as in, she gets a card saying a goat has been sent to someone in Africa, or wherever, although I'd love to see her face if I bought her an actual goat). Easily done. Having been absolved of gift-thinking duty, I haven't been paying attention to the usual Mother's Day catalogues for Inappropriate Gift Ideas, but two things caught my eye this weekend. The first was a fashion spread, in which the writer suggested giving Mum a Hermès scarf because that is the sort of thing that gets passed down from mother to daughter. 'Happy Mother's Day, Mum! Enjoy wearing this scarf that I want to inherit.'
Also, and more egregiously, I saw a commercial last night that suggested that if your mum's washing machine breaks down and your dad is too cheap to buy her a new one, you might like to rent her a new one for Mother's Day. There is so much wrong with that idea.