The Impluse Buy
For those of you who know Loren and I well, you can probably attest to
the fact that we are not impulse buyers. About the only thing we buy
on impulse is lunch. For anything more significant, there's a lot of
hemming and hawing and discussions, and usually at least one day's
delay to think on it.
Saturday, however, we did something beautifully impulsive. We had
wandered into a neighbourhood that we were not all that familiar with,
a middle class, well established kind of place, with lots of little
boutiques, cafes, businesses and even a small souk. We had come to
buy stamps for our Carte de Séjour in our passport, but didn't find
them there. We did find a coffee shop and have a sip, and then we
wandered upstairs to look for someone who could burn a CD of pirate
software for reading DVDs for about 3 Dinars.
As we walked through the little shopping complex, I noticed a music
store with guitars hanging in the window. I pointed to it and
suggested we go in. So after we bought our DVD software, we did just
that.
There was a row of classical guitars hanging on the small side wall,
and we asked the store attendant, which one was the least expensive.
He pointed to an all black guitar and said 75 Dinars. He brought it
down for us, showed us the make. We handled it for all of about three
minutes, when I looked at Loren and said: "Want it?" He smiled a huge
smile. "I do!" We dug around in our wallets, and I had sixty, and
Loren had ten. That would give us just five dinars for the ride home,
which was more than enough. I pulled out my stash, handed it to
Loren, and watched as he happily paid and took the cardboard box with
the guitar.
I think it's the biggest impulse buy we've ever made, and Loren hasn't
stopped smiling since!
posted by tiaraletourneau @ 12:29 p.m.
3 Comments:
Congratulations!
Starting a new musical instrument as an adult, is a whole new experience and you will love it!
Love Gaila
Hey,
Just read your comment and find you are really having a kind of miserable life of restreint and deprivation.
It is true the bible even the Coran state that "retenue" and resistence to desires and impulse are encouraged.
But not even a small plastic card or spare money for satisfaction ???
A question ??? The guitar was 75...you had 60 Lorren 10 and then what happened ??? you made a game play to the seller for having it at 65/70 ????
not exactly a life of restraint - just enjoying it as it comes...
And your math is apparently better than ours. Actually, it's just the fact that we had two 5 dinar coins in addition to the bills. Works out better that way.
As for satisfaction... it's warm, there's beach all over the place, it's the warm mediterranean, it's the fresh food, it's the artwork that I have the time and space and finances for, and of course the peerless company :-)
And now, I have a guitar to play with too!
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