I have the utmost sympathy for anyone who has to work in stores in the runup to Christmas. I'm always greatly surprised we don't have news headlines about store assistants running amok through the streets en masse waving axes.

I'm just grateful that I can avoid stores at Christmas these days, thanks to the net. Oh the pleasure in sitting down at the screen on an afternoon, with my favourite Christmas songs softly playing and a glass of wine at my elbow as I order my gifts in blissful peace.

Sure beats all those crowds, muzak, queues, stifling hot stores...<shudder>

LabRat smile


Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.

The Musketeers