WHEN YOU GO SHOPPING
For those who are shopaholics like yours truly, I'm sure at some point or another you would have
a mental list of sorts that hangs in the nooky-corner of your mind. When you go to Mid Valley for instance, you may walk into Levis and you spot a pair of jeans that's nice and will probably look really good on you, heck, you even try it on to see if it fits... but it the end, you know, you don't buy it for several reasons:
Maybe they don't have it in the right size?
Maybe its awfully expensive?
Maybe you're not in the right size to wear it?
Maybe for some weird reason, its... well, out of reach for now, but you might go back for it in the future....
Following this unsuccessful purchase attempt, you go back, a little off of course, but not really dejected, because, after all, you didn't part with your money, but then again, its not really something to shout about, after all, you didn't get to possess the thing you really, really wanted because of the funny reasons that some how 'got in the way'. And then you go back and you do feel relieved because, hey, since you didn't buy it, you shouldn't feel any remorse at all, because ... well, what if it only looked nice in the shop? You know, if you did make a successful purchase of that pair of Levis, you might not even like it at all, you might take it home, wear it once or twice and then chuck it aside, maybe donate it to charity some day because some how, it was a wrong purchase!
Oh and then, you might just walk into Topshop or MNG maybe, and you see another two or three pairs of jeans, that you actually like just as much, or maybe you don't really like them, and that Levis Jeans which was really, THE love-at-first-sight jeans becames just a 'potential' purchase.... Hmmmm.... but then for the same reasons you still didn't get the following pairs that you liked... oh well, shoppers are horribly picky you know... and they create funny, funny excuses to justify their actions.
The point is, Minishorts likes keeping her jeans. And the good thing bout Minishorts is, when it comes to jeans, she's not fickle at all. Heads out, with enough money, buys them. Doesn't change her mind easily. In fact, she has a pair of Levis she bought way, way back in 1994, and she's still wearing them. There was a point in time when the pair of jeans didn't fit her (got fat, you see), so she actually worked at keeping fit so that she could fit into them again, and now that she's in the right shape again, the pair of Levis is still her favourite garment.
BTW, Minishorts chose 'Jeans' because that's the type of Garment that girls would and should keep for life. They're built to last, anyway. But you know, Minishorts actually pities the MNG, Topshop, Edwin, Guess and what-not that will probably get sidelined after a while. After all, in a woman's 'mental shopping list', only ONE pair will be chosen to hug her hips for life. Doesn't that make things pretty bad for the other brands? If they don't get purchased, they might even end up in some reject or factory outlet, or worse, snipped into pieces to make rags.
Fortunately, Jeans do not have feelings.
