Monday, October 26, 2009

Where's the sizing chart in this thing?

You know when you were a kid and you spent hours on end at this time of year looking through the Sears Christmas Wish Book drooling over all the awesome toys?  Man!  There was always that one way cool thing that you just had to have!

But then after you pined over it for months on end, and you begged and pleaded with Santa to bring it to you, and you woke up on at 4am on Christmas morning just so you could get that first glimpse of it before you accidentally woke your father up and he sent you back to bed, well, it just wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

For starters, Santa brought it in the wrong colour.  Then, of course, it was actually smaller than it looked in the picture.  And you actually cut your finger on that stupid made-in-china plastic.  And to top it off: "batteries not included".

*sigh*  You start to realize that shopping through catalogues isn't all it's cracked up to be.  Remember that old National Film Board carton about the little french kid who needs a new hockey jersey?  Out comes the old Eaton's catalogue.  The kid does get a new sweater, but.... let's just say it doesn't exactly fit.

You know what I find to be pretty much exactly the same, (read: disappointing), as shopping through catalogues?  Online dating websites.

You know what I'm really starting to consider doing?  Walking over there to that church across the street and asking the pastor to introduce me to all the single guys around my age.   For serious.  Come on!  There's gotta be 400 or more people in that congregation, there must be at least one single guy my age!

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