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Friday, September 8th, 2006 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanWhen you decide to do something, you should just do it.
It was in that positive frame of mind that I strode out at lunchtime with a view to purchasing a CD in the Virgin Megastore1 on Victoria Street. I know that the CD I am after is not available in the small HMV in Victoria Station, so off in the opposite direction. The Victoria area of London is poorly served in these matters.
So off I trotted.
It rapidly becomes apparent that whatever else is happening in Victoria Street2, Virgin are having no part in it. The mini-Megastore has gone. There is another clothes shop there now. I stood there appropriately stunned for a few minutes and then made my way back. I wandered in to Books Etc with a view to indulging in some consolation retail therapy involving the written word. I couldn’t find anything I wanted to buy – at least not at full price in hardback; there are a couple of titles out there that may make the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caddyman booklist when, in due course, they arrive in papperbok, but not before.
Sadly, I mooched back onto the street and round the corner to buy a sandwich for lunch in M&S. Happily I had a fiver in my pocket. It seems that I had left my wallet in my rucksack at the office. Even if everything else had gone to plan, there could have been no CD or even a book. Not without the mighty plastic, which was snoozing back at work, anyway.
So, the advice is: When you decide to do something, make sure you have the wherewithal to do it. Then do something else instead.
Pah. Didn’t want a CD or a book anyway. /petulance.
1A misnomer if ever there was one: it was neither virginal nor mega, but what has a brand name ever had to do with truthful marketing?
2Something odd involving spotlights, balloon sculptures and a sound stage in Cardinal Place and a live Jazz Trio gamely trying to face down the PA system in M&S, which was stubbornly playing Texas’ greatest hits rather loudly.
It was in that positive frame of mind that I strode out at lunchtime with a view to purchasing a CD in the Virgin Megastore1 on Victoria Street. I know that the CD I am after is not available in the small HMV in Victoria Station, so off in the opposite direction. The Victoria area of London is poorly served in these matters.
So off I trotted.
It rapidly becomes apparent that whatever else is happening in Victoria Street2, Virgin are having no part in it. The mini-Megastore has gone. There is another clothes shop there now. I stood there appropriately stunned for a few minutes and then made my way back. I wandered in to Books Etc with a view to indulging in some consolation retail therapy involving the written word. I couldn’t find anything I wanted to buy – at least not at full price in hardback; there are a couple of titles out there that may make the
caddyman booklist when, in due course, they arrive in papperbok, but not before. Sadly, I mooched back onto the street and round the corner to buy a sandwich for lunch in M&S. Happily I had a fiver in my pocket. It seems that I had left my wallet in my rucksack at the office. Even if everything else had gone to plan, there could have been no CD or even a book. Not without the mighty plastic, which was snoozing back at work, anyway.
So, the advice is: When you decide to do something, make sure you have the wherewithal to do it. Then do something else instead.
Pah. Didn’t want a CD or a book anyway. /petulance.
1A misnomer if ever there was one: it was neither virginal nor mega, but what has a brand name ever had to do with truthful marketing?
2Something odd involving spotlights, balloon sculptures and a sound stage in Cardinal Place and a live Jazz Trio gamely trying to face down the PA system in M&S, which was stubbornly playing Texas’ greatest hits rather loudly.
