Patience? Was ist das patience?
Monday, October 20th, 2003 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThe problem with exercising patience and restraint is that there is no instant gratification.
It is in that spirit that I have decided to blow my lunch hour on a trip to the West End to pick up a copy of the Deaf School anthology, What A Way to End It All which I ordered ten days ago from play.com and which they still do not have in stock, despite such worthy merchants as Amazon.co.uk promising despatch within 24 hours. The thing is, they charge postage on top, where as Play do not, so it's worth nipping up to HMV as that only costs me time.
It is an unfortunate failing of mine, that once I have decided on a purchase, my will power and patience then goes on holiday and I have to buy as soon as possible.
Oddly, the same is not true in prevaricating over settling the credit card bill.
Update
Of course, it's all bollocks.
Just because you go to a place that advertises itself as the World's Largest Music Store (and no, I have no idea if it is, but that's how it advertises itself), you shouldn't expect them tyo have anything useful in stock.
And so it transpired.
Neither did the Virgin Megastore.
Theoretically the album I want was released on 29 September, but I'm beginning to think that maybe only five or six copies were pressed and those have now sold out (presumably to ex band members)and there is to be no reprint.
It narks me, it does.
It is in that spirit that I have decided to blow my lunch hour on a trip to the West End to pick up a copy of the Deaf School anthology, What A Way to End It All which I ordered ten days ago from play.com and which they still do not have in stock, despite such worthy merchants as Amazon.co.uk promising despatch within 24 hours. The thing is, they charge postage on top, where as Play do not, so it's worth nipping up to HMV as that only costs me time.
It is an unfortunate failing of mine, that once I have decided on a purchase, my will power and patience then goes on holiday and I have to buy as soon as possible.
Oddly, the same is not true in prevaricating over settling the credit card bill.
Update
Of course, it's all bollocks.
Just because you go to a place that advertises itself as the World's Largest Music Store (and no, I have no idea if it is, but that's how it advertises itself), you shouldn't expect them tyo have anything useful in stock.
And so it transpired.
Neither did the Virgin Megastore.
Theoretically the album I want was released on 29 September, but I'm beginning to think that maybe only five or six copies were pressed and those have now sold out (presumably to ex band members)and there is to be no reprint.
It narks me, it does.