Commerce!
I've done a bit of online shopping lately. I blame the fact that there's absolutely no variety at the mall. Last weekend I shopped for hours and somehow left the mall with nothing but a window fan. Here's a list about it because I like putting paragraphs in lists.
1) I often speak of my joy in living on a park that's not technically a street. Sometimes this sucks though, and I curse my no-man's-land existence. I'm used to people looking into my house like it's a diorama for their personal edification. I've gotten accustomed to getting service people and delivery people within shouting distance by phone and then running outside and waving them towards my home. I could give directions in my sleep by now. I've always been able to count on my UPS guy though. He knows this town's weird ways and can actually find the back of my house to leave packages there if he can't fit them through an open window in the front room.
Unfortunately a lot of websites now seem to have some sort of UPS database involved in approving shipping addresses. I don't exist in that database. The sites just keep changing my address to other towns with the same street name and there's no way to stop them. This makes it impossible to order online from certain sites. When I called one business to ask what to do the woman on the phone wasn't able to override it either and had to make the change in some other system. I really hope this trend doesn't continue because it makes me want to bite things.
2) One e-tailer that never fails me is Sock Dreams. God I love this store. I love their thigh high socks, I love their awesome stockings and I have no idea how I ever lived without lost of knee highs. So beautiful and right! I just got an order from them yesterday and it made me very happy. I am so stocked with fabulous leg coverings. I feel very fancy.
3) I hate shopping for jeans ever more than I'd remembered. Phil had never experienced it before and it made me feel better that he was there to be outraged on my behalf when things went poorly. For years and years I've been regular length wherever I go. Last I heard the average American woman is just under 5'4". I'm 5'4" so this has always worked in my favor since lengths other than regular are usually poorly stocked in every brand. Now I've been reclassified as a Hobbit or something and The Gap doesn't even stock things for freaks like me. They have a whole wall full of jeans of various styles, but they all trail on the floor comically. I would have just sworn eternal hatred to their company if it weren't for the fact that they made the only jeans that worked right (aside from eating my feet) in a whole day of shopping. I finally gave in to Phil's well reasoned argument for just mail-ordering a cross section of their jeans in the new "Ankle length" and it actually worked. Free shipping and all. Huzzah! Now I have jeans with no holes and I don't even have to go into their awful fucking store. Pants!
1) I often speak of my joy in living on a park that's not technically a street. Sometimes this sucks though, and I curse my no-man's-land existence. I'm used to people looking into my house like it's a diorama for their personal edification. I've gotten accustomed to getting service people and delivery people within shouting distance by phone and then running outside and waving them towards my home. I could give directions in my sleep by now. I've always been able to count on my UPS guy though. He knows this town's weird ways and can actually find the back of my house to leave packages there if he can't fit them through an open window in the front room.
Unfortunately a lot of websites now seem to have some sort of UPS database involved in approving shipping addresses. I don't exist in that database. The sites just keep changing my address to other towns with the same street name and there's no way to stop them. This makes it impossible to order online from certain sites. When I called one business to ask what to do the woman on the phone wasn't able to override it either and had to make the change in some other system. I really hope this trend doesn't continue because it makes me want to bite things.
2) One e-tailer that never fails me is Sock Dreams. God I love this store. I love their thigh high socks, I love their awesome stockings and I have no idea how I ever lived without lost of knee highs. So beautiful and right! I just got an order from them yesterday and it made me very happy. I am so stocked with fabulous leg coverings. I feel very fancy.
3) I hate shopping for jeans ever more than I'd remembered. Phil had never experienced it before and it made me feel better that he was there to be outraged on my behalf when things went poorly. For years and years I've been regular length wherever I go. Last I heard the average American woman is just under 5'4". I'm 5'4" so this has always worked in my favor since lengths other than regular are usually poorly stocked in every brand. Now I've been reclassified as a Hobbit or something and The Gap doesn't even stock things for freaks like me. They have a whole wall full of jeans of various styles, but they all trail on the floor comically. I would have just sworn eternal hatred to their company if it weren't for the fact that they made the only jeans that worked right (aside from eating my feet) in a whole day of shopping. I finally gave in to Phil's well reasoned argument for just mail-ordering a cross section of their jeans in the new "Ankle length" and it actually worked. Free shipping and all. Huzzah! Now I have jeans with no holes and I don't even have to go into their awful fucking store. Pants!