First-World Problems
Apr. 15th, 2011 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserYears back, I got a gift card to Borders. Even back then it wasn't a great gift for me; though I was still reading the dead tree version of books at the time, I was buying them all through Amazon. As I didn't much care about the card, I didn't keep track of where it was, and eventually lost it.
Fast-forward to a few months ago and news that Borders was going out of business. Well, I supposed I better find that card! Eventually I did. So, with it in hand, I stepped foot in a bookstore for the first time in ages.
Thankfully the store had non-book items, but nothing I wanted. There was a nice backpack, but I already have one I like and I rarely need to use it. I could get something as a gift, but I do all my gift shopping online so I don't have to deal with shipping. I considered some manga (there was a big section of it), but after I read it once I'd be stuck with the physical object.
I spent a good deal of time in the toy section, but even there was nothing I wanted. I was getting grumpy and annoyed, I just wanted to go. I tried to figure out if maybe I could just donate the card, but I had no way to get online and check (the one time I wanted a smart phone!). I almost gave it to a mother with three young boys, but I was afraid it would make me look like some kind of child predator or something.
Eventually I picked out a Lego toy (this one) because it came with a spiffy undead horse thingie (Edit: Which looks nothing like it does on the box. D: ). I ended up having to pay $2.30 in tax, which was really more than I would have paid for the set if I had thought about it, but I just wanted to be rid of the darned gift card.
I should clear off a spot on my desk so I can check the set out.
Fast-forward to a few months ago and news that Borders was going out of business. Well, I supposed I better find that card! Eventually I did. So, with it in hand, I stepped foot in a bookstore for the first time in ages.
Thankfully the store had non-book items, but nothing I wanted. There was a nice backpack, but I already have one I like and I rarely need to use it. I could get something as a gift, but I do all my gift shopping online so I don't have to deal with shipping. I considered some manga (there was a big section of it), but after I read it once I'd be stuck with the physical object.
I spent a good deal of time in the toy section, but even there was nothing I wanted. I was getting grumpy and annoyed, I just wanted to go. I tried to figure out if maybe I could just donate the card, but I had no way to get online and check (the one time I wanted a smart phone!). I almost gave it to a mother with three young boys, but I was afraid it would make me look like some kind of child predator or something.
Eventually I picked out a Lego toy (this one) because it came with a spiffy undead horse thingie (Edit: Which looks nothing like it does on the box. D: ). I ended up having to pay $2.30 in tax, which was really more than I would have paid for the set if I had thought about it, but I just wanted to be rid of the darned gift card.
I should clear off a spot on my desk so I can check the set out.
