Alarm and Pause for Pre-Holiday Buying Thought
Caveat for the reader: There's no dramatic pay-off to the following piece. I have a 15% digital coupon that expires tomorrow, so I hit the particular store late in the day today, looking to see what I could see and mop up some odds and ends to get me closer to rounding out my holiday gift list for the year. Hitting some of the requisite hesitation and hints of haunts buyer's remorse at picking up things I might soon question why I'd spent the money and was intent on burdening someone else with, I was moving past that. I was finding some items to make into useful assortments of comforts and indulgences. Then, something tripped the store's alarm system. It's the same set-up we have at the lab and for our office building in general. Strobes, accompanied by two or three second pulses shrill, piercing, synthetic pea-whistle sound. Annoying, but as the store has so much more space, and a dramatica...