3 for 2.

Everyone around me seems to have finished their Christmas Shopping...slightly panicked by this I decided to hit the shops last weekend.

I was in Covent Garden, I popped into a well known book shop which shall remain nameless (Waterstones)...I had a couple of books to buy for someone as a gift. I managed to track them down, went to pay and the lady behind the till smiled at me then looked at me like I was slightly retarded. She pointed out the sticker on the front of the book, "3 for 2"...she stopped putting the books through the till and suggested I go and see which book I wanted as my third and to pop back in a few minutes once I'd decided. I smiled back, did my whole roll of the eyes/ "aren't I silly" thing, then headed back in.

Well....I wandered those shelves for well over half an hour! I only needed 2 books - don't make me get three! I went up and down the shelves seriously about 15 times, I swear I must have looked like I was about to shop-lift, slowly sussing the place out, one security camera at a time.
Every time I thought I had found a possible contender it wasn't included in the frigin offer and I got that same deflated feeling as I trawled round again.

I didn't want a third book! I was tempted to go and just pay for the two but then I thought that the lady might think I was some sort of snob that didn't want to partake in any sort of offer or worst she thought I wasn't clued up enough to find an alternative book, clearly a reader of heat magazine and not the hard stuff. I kept searching.

Well you'll be glad to hear that some time later I did manage to find my final book, in fact I found four...If you're reading this and you get a book from me, a book you hate, a book you have no idea why I bought it for you, please just remember it's the thought and the amount of time spent on it's selection that counts! ;o)