I’ve spent some time being accused of having eaten my pet rabbit. Save Toby is the story of someone who has gotten canny about his rabbit eating tendencies (not that I ate my rabbit, it was all just vicious rumours), and likewise come up with a cunning method to make some money out of peoples desire to not see small cute furry animals be eaten. The site has been around for a while now, but the basic idea is that he wants to raise $50,000 US by June 30th, otherwise he will eat the rabbit. The total is at $28,372.15 at the moment (apparently). I am watching with curiousity (although not donating any money towards the cause).
I also have to say, that having a credit card is a bad bad thing. I survived without one until the start of this year. Now the problem is not the running up of huge bills, but rather *sounding of dramatic chords* online shopping. It’s ingenious, you see things that you want, type a number on your keyboard, then you get exciting parcels in the mail! Everything is so cheap, and being in the US, postage doesn’t cost the earth, and I don’t have to worry about getting hit with extra costs by customs. I’ll probably wean myself from the habit when I get back home and start having to pay international postage again.
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Ohhhhhh! What did you get, what did you get?
In the past week? Just an iPod FM transmitter thingo and car charger. We won’t be listing all my online purchases, my no.
Pfffft! Yuppy gear, and here I thought you were buying climbing stuff, got me all excited and all. You owe me some sort of consolation for over working my heart.
Pfft to you too! How about as consolation I don’t sell your gear on ebay? Besides, buying climbing gear online is no fun, you don’t get to touch it, and admire it’s shininess, and undergo the whole courting process that comes before purchase.
Eh, it’s like a mail ordered bride. You can get to touch it, admire it, and undergo the whole courting process after you get it in the mail.
By the way, this is in no way to say I’ve had any experience whatsoever with mail ordered brides.
Btw you shoulda of checked Snopes first on that one… Still a decent idea… *thinks*
Yeah, I was a bit dubious about the genuine-ness of the Toby thing, but it’s still a good story (and… not at all a good idea, and don’t you do the same thing with Holly, otherwise Val is sure to blame me).
And I’m not going anywhere near the mail order bride thing. I think I prefer doing things the old fashioned way…