A sprightly feel hung in the air around Pollie and Pushy, as the Pup and Panda prodded along the grassy fields of SunDeck City. Pollie pranced from shop-display to shop-display in curiosity, wondering what would make suitable gifts for TGPAEYI.
"A set of stationery each, perhaps?" asked Pollie.
"Dunno?" shrugged Pushy.
"How about food, then?" Pollie continued.
"Anything?" Pushy replied.
"Grrr." Thought Pollie, as she pranced along.
As Pollie passed a display of electrical applicance, she suddenly recalled that Ma-Pollie's recent lecture on the rationale for needing a new vacuum cleaner in the home. Then Pollie turned to Pushy and asked if he knew about the properties of a good vaccum cleaner.
"Dunno?" Pushy repeated.
"Grrrr." Though Pollie again, then she sought out a sales-person stationed nearby to check-it-out-y'all!
"Blahblahblahblahblah." said the sales-person. Pollie nodded politely and thanked the strange man. "Alright, I'm going to buy this vacuum, Pushy!" said Pollie. Then Pushy suggested to Pollie that she could go to another appliance store starting with 'H' to check-it-out-y'all prices.
"Oh, what a good idea!" exclaimed Pollie. And the duo made their way to the Other Appliance Store Startin' with 'H'. Other Appliance Store Startin' with 'H' stocked a wider range of household vacuum cleaners, but they did not have a free goods delivery service, thus Pollie didn't like that. Pollie also didn't like that the prices in Other Appliance Store Startin' with 'H' appeared to price its appliances costlier as compared with the Previous Departmental Store.
"O' well," said Pushy, "Let's return to the Previous Departmental Store.
At the Previous Departmental Store, Pollie told the strange sales-person that she wanted the Philips vacuum, the bagless design. The strange sales-person assisted Pollie with bringing a new vacuum to the cashier. On the way to make payment, Pollie also picked up a 500 GB portable external HDD by iomega. Picked up. She simply picked it up like that and.. and purchased it. Pollie wondered why Pushy never stopped her from making this impulsive buy. (Hmm maybe he was busy shoppin' for his $5,000 speakers.)
After payment, Pollie sent her vacuum to the delivery counter for arranging the delivery. Pollie felt like something was amiss, as if she had forgotten something.
"Ah! I forgot the fare-the-well gifts!" exclaimed Pollie.
"Aiyaa.." remarked Pushy.
And off they went to search for fare-the-well gifts for TGPAEYI. Pollie had so many stuffs to choose from, she was very confused.
"What should I buy neh..?" questioned Pollie.
"Up to you la." replied Pushy.
Pollie took a loooooooong time to decide tho'. She had thought of preparing various stationery in a goodie-bag form so that each good person at Elephant Yoodles Inc can have a nice set of new stationery. But all the stationery looked expensive, and the cheap ones looked too cheap.
"Ah what the heck, let's just buy food!" Pollie thought to herself. And then she grabbed a whole bunch of __________. (Blank intended, so as not to spoil the surprise for my fellow good persons who also read this blog) Pollie grabbed so many __________ that the shopping basket felt so heavy!
Then Pollie and Pushy joined the queue for payment. The queue was terrible. It was an antagonizing wait to make payment. The cashier was sloooooooooow, and the conveyor belt was wet. Now, Pollie hates to wet her purchases, because that would mean that the packaging might get ruined by the moisture.
The dampness of the conveyor was a result of some precedent shopper spilling some teh-tarik on the conveyor belt. The supermarket staff had simply splashed water on to the belt in a bid to wash off the teh-tarik. Pushy was quick to point out that surprisingly, the teh-tarik was purchased from Komala's. Pushy and Pollie were so amused because they didn't recall anywhere nearby having a Komala's outlet.
When it was Pollie's turn to make payment, Pollie lifted up the whole shopping basket on to the conveyor belt to avoid the purchases touching the wet belt directly. However to Pollie's dismay, the clever cashier had cleverly unloaded the shopping basket on to the wet conveyor belt, so she could sort out the goods for punching the relevant quantities to update the cash register. Her simple act deemed by Pollie as dumb, because she sure took a helluva time and also, she had WET THE PACKAGING FOR THE GIFTS. Eeesh eeesh eeesh, some people.
Pollie winced when the clever cashier did what she did. Pollie also winced when she saw the final bill. A total of about $100 was spent on purchasing fare-the-well gifts for TGPAEYI whom Pollie did not take a fancy to. Now Pollie is thinking if it was all worth it.'
PROBABLY NOT.
EEESH what a waste of money.
P.S. Pollie still has to set aside some time to make the labels for each fare-the-well gift.
P.S.1. Pollie is falling asleep as she is trying to complete this entry so that she can clear off some saved drafts.
P.S.2. Pollie is expecting the vacuum to arrive on Wed (28/10). Once it arrives, Pollie will have one less excuse not to do household chores.
P.S.3. Pollie is now in the midst of clearing the stages for Resident Evil on P.S.3. Pollie thinks that the game is damn grotesque.
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