Sunday, March 13, 2005
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I went to buy some t-shirts online in order to avoid the mall.
I had a gift card leftover from Christmas I was determined to use. Usually I keep gift cards in a safe but obvious place where I won’t lose them--like in the bottom of a cardboard box in the garage used to store miscellaneous ring shank fasteners and #300 sandpaper scraps. When I find them two years later, and try to cash them in I’m informed that my $50 Chili’s gift card has a current value sufficient to cover a house salad with no dressing. This time it was going to be different. As it turns out, more different than I imagined.
I think the Lands End website is coming on to me.
It teases me. I select my shirt style and color (choices include colors I’m unfamiliar with (It's my Y chromosomes): Ecru, Maize, Alfredo, and Dusky Potassium). Then the site informs me people who wear shirts also like Bermuda shorts and toffee and would I like to add some of them too?
Then it plays hard to get. Your selections are currently on backorder. They will be shipped when they arrive sometime in the fall of 2006.
Then it really turns on the charm. Check out the “come hither” look on the confirmation screen.
Lose the headset, and I think I could be smitten...
I had a gift card leftover from Christmas I was determined to use. Usually I keep gift cards in a safe but obvious place where I won’t lose them--like in the bottom of a cardboard box in the garage used to store miscellaneous ring shank fasteners and #300 sandpaper scraps. When I find them two years later, and try to cash them in I’m informed that my $50 Chili’s gift card has a current value sufficient to cover a house salad with no dressing. This time it was going to be different. As it turns out, more different than I imagined.
I think the Lands End website is coming on to me.
It teases me. I select my shirt style and color (choices include colors I’m unfamiliar with (It's my Y chromosomes): Ecru, Maize, Alfredo, and Dusky Potassium). Then the site informs me people who wear shirts also like Bermuda shorts and toffee and would I like to add some of them too?
Then it plays hard to get. Your selections are currently on backorder. They will be shipped when they arrive sometime in the fall of 2006.
Then it really turns on the charm. Check out the “come hither” look on the confirmation screen.
Lose the headset, and I think I could be smitten...
