Comments | paraxeni: I'm not weird

paraxeni

I'm not weird

Sep 25, 2009 21:37

OK, Lisa laughs at me for this and says it is weird. So I'm asking you guys, because you're all really sane and normal and if you do this thing, it can't be so bizarre.

Q
If you buy an item for yourself on the interboobs, do you 'visit' it while you're waiting for it? By 'visiting' I mean going to it's webpage, lookng at pictures, reading it's ( Read more... )

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sigma7 September 25 2009, 21:11:24 UTC

Dude, I totally do that all the time. It's fun. Ramps up the anticipation, which is often more fun than the actual ownership and utility.

alice_curiouser September 25 2009, 22:45:20 UTC

I second this.

paraxeni September 28 2009, 14:47:32 UTC

Already feeling more normal!

paraxeni September 28 2009, 14:46:32 UTC

I knew I wasn't weird! :D It does make things more exciting, I even visited my Snug Rug, ended up frothing over a fluffy blanket. Thankfully it was only metaphorical froth because the literal stuff stains.

glitterybabe September 25 2009, 21:27:59 UTC

If by "reading it's spec" you mean tracking its progress, totally! lol.

In fact i'm probably more weird than you because i was tracking the progress of condoms i bought online the other week (even stranger, i'm actually celibate but that's merely an aside because i thought i was going to get lucky that weekend).

maeveenroute September 26 2009, 05:40:51 UTC

If by "reading it's spec" you mean tracking its progress, totally!

This. I don't often go back to look at the thing itself (unless it's a major purchase, or will take a *really* long time to arrive), but if the UPS/FedEx websites gave out frequent-visitor miles, they'd be flying me to South Africa by now.

paraxeni September 28 2009, 15:11:10 UTC

You know what I hate? When something spends 3 days over a bank holiday in a holding facility that's mere miles from our house. I can smell my shiny thing, I can hear the rustle of packaging and yet it's in package prison. Oh and when we bought our tv a couple of years ago I was up all morning tracking it, we'd had it shipped to Lisa's dad's house and he'd promised to stay in. F5, F5, F5, STATUS - DELIVERED AND SIGNED FOR, J. COOPER 11:38.

AAAARGH WTF? I ran upstairs screaming (ah running, I remember that heheh.) "WHO THE FUUUUUCK IS J COOPER AND WHY DOES HE HAVE OUR NEW TV?" She sat up, blinked a bit, did the creaky thinky thinky thing and cocked her head. "Cooper, Cooper...... Jim. Jim next door to my dad". Yep, Daddy Dearest goes out for a walk because despite receiving 4 calls that morning already his poor old brain had become confused. Jim meanwhile, thinks it's Christmas.

Poor Jim. The box was so big and he was so frail he had to leave it in his doorway and use the back door.

paraxeni September 28 2009, 14:51:51 UTC

OHHHH I forgot about tracking! Yeah, that too. By the specs I meant it's technical specification, so erm in the case of my last purchase 'pink, polar fleece, 250gm thickness, pocket' heheh.

We have so many condoms in this house it is not even funny. I know honest to goodness heterosexuals who marvel that such an amount even exist. They're so versatile though, not just for toy time! I once got a bag of 100 for something ridic like a tenner inc. postage. Rude to refuse that kind of offer I think.

hotclaws September 26 2009, 02:44:36 UTC

yep

paraxeni September 28 2009, 14:53:11 UTC

Aces. More people to add to my 'proof of sanity' list!

ilikerivers September 26 2009, 07:05:33 UTC

Oh I visit things I've bought a whole lot before they arrive! :D

paraxeni September 28 2009, 14:56:11 UTC

Bwaaaaaah I *knew* Lisa was the weird one! Knew it, she has that air about her. She wears clothes, goes to work, and drinks out of cups. STONE THE FREEEEAK!

Visiting is great. I have a whole folder of shiny things past.

poppleshatesyou September 27 2009, 00:30:01 UTC

I do that all the time! I'm actually doing it right now, i want my pretty new blue menstrual cup to get here nooowwww.

I also absolutely did not cry at the new Grey's Anatomy episode either. You know what other episode i didn't cry like a baby that had been kicked? the last episode of season 5. holy cow.

paraxeni September 28 2009, 15:23:20 UTC

Ooh did you get it? I was saying the other week "Hmm, if the Earth ever spins backwards and makes me unable to have another Mirena I'd love to get a cup." Suddenly, the weird person who doesn't visit purchases said "You know, yeah, I'd like to try one of those". I sort of stopped in my tracks. Blinked. "You want to try a menstrual cup? Wow. Sure". Turns out my crunchy VP talk has rubbed off on her ( ... )

poppleshatesyou October 1 2009, 17:10:21 UTC

Nooo, but it shipped!! It's traveling a ways so i'm thinking it will take a while. International shipping can be a bitch sometimes.

Oh man i would be sooo pissed if i ordered something and everything (packaging etc) but that actual thing i wanted showed up. ohhhh jeebus would i be pissed!

Oh yea i still don't cry at the episodes of ER that i'm rewatching as they come out on DVD....never ever ever....ever.