Online Shopping

I still remember when online "anything" was introduced as the greatest thing that happened in the universe.  It was supposed to save us time and money and how are we doing about 40 years later?

This last weekend, I went to look in stores for my size of jeans.  Popular size I thought since I am not on the slim side.  I couldn't find my size.  I thought, well, maybe they are doing it this way to encourage more people to shop online.  I went online and there my frustration started to mount. I went to two popular sites and neither one had my size in the style I wanted, one of them would not ship outside the US to Canada or anywhere else.  I thought, "that's odd why is it on the world wide web and not shipping other than in the US?  I only found that out at checkout after all that time.  Anyway I wish them lots of sales.  The same brand had stores in Canada, shortage of sizes or of styles.  What is going on the online stage?  What kind of time am I saving? Convenience? I don't think so anymore.

Fortunately, my wife came in at the right time and went online to a different site.  We found some jeans, not the ones I wanted in the first place.  We ended up paying more than at those other sites for a different style.  Don't let anybody tell you that online shopping is convenient or faster.  I don't believe it anymore.  It will never be convenient or speedy as long as you have to rely on computers.

Have you had a similar experience with online shopping?  Why don't you share in it comments and let me know?

Race Against Time

Bernard Demaere

 

Seemingly,

Always behind,

In the race

Against time.

 

Pushing, going,

And going some more,

There is no evil in time,

It’s just stays in the race.

 

We say:

“We are short of it,”

As if we were,

Short of breath,

 

We even say:

“We have none of it,”

When it escapes us,

 All the time.

 

As grains of sand

Pass through the hourglass,

The race goes on,

As we pass through life.


I was born in Belgium ����.I am retired and living with my wife of 36years, Cathy. We are the proud parents of two adult married children. One of each, Zoe and Steve. Now we have grandchildren as well. I love writing, I don’t write some poetry. I have quite a collection of poems.

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