My brother emirated about 10 years ago and he is now settled with a beautiful partner. It's her birthday soon. My mom would like to get a gift for her. She wasn't organised in time to go shopping and put a parcel together. So she asked me to help her with online shopping. My mom has no technology or Internet skills. She really doesn't know how to use this kind of stuff. She was showed before to text and she did learn but then she forgot it again. She really is useless.
I had a quick look online for gift shops in my brothers locality. I wasn't having any luck. I thought there was nothing wrong with a florist and sending a bouquet but my mom didn't want to send flowers. She wanted to send a gift but she didn't know what. I had a look for some gift shops and I failed to find anything suitable. The place really isn't set up for online shopping. Some shops have an online presence but other shops just had an information page online. I was failing completely at this task but this wasn't my fault.
If somebody asked me where to go shopping for gifts in my home village and city, I would be able to list of 6 shops and other shops too. I wasn't able to find much shops for my mom to browse. Especially considering she had no idea what to get. There were some online gift shops but there were more geared towards tourists with kangaroo and koala toys and other nick nacks. I don't think that would be suitable for a gift for a birthday to an adult.
To make all of this worse, work was very demanding and I was away all weekend with work. It didn't appeal to me to go home after a long stint in work with little time off, to go trawling the net with my mother. I knowy mom so well. If I did find anything it will be like:
- I don't like that
- That's not suitable
- That's not right
- That's too expensive
- I don't like it
She did it before. My mom got me to spend hours every evening to help her source what she had in her mind. It was a headbanging stuff.
While I was away over the course of the weekend I got a free patch of time, I did find a shop online. I browsed at the products and I read the information pages on delivery. I was reasonably pleased. I left it for a day. I was still away on Sunday night when right before going to sleep, I decided to eliminate the shit storm my mother will make when I return home and I placed an online order of some products. I picked out what I thought were lovely gift items - a handcare set with hand-wash (thinking of the increased hand hygiene with covid), a candle, and a few more other bits. I added gift wrapping and a gift note at the end and added our two names and paid for delivery.
I did this to eliminate the stress and the headache my mother will make for me this week. I wouldnt mind so much if I worked a normal 9 to 5 type of job and if I had some evenings free and available but I don't. I really don't have time to sit down for hours every evening in front of a laptop and make some magic out of the Internet with online shopping for my mother.
I finally made it home last night from my stint in work over the weekend. I told my mom that I got a present sorted for the sister in law and I left both our names to the gift and I told mom that she doesn't have to pay me a half towards the gift.
I woke up this morning and my mom wasn't talking to me. I can only presume her issue is that she's not happy that a gifted has been sorted and dispatched in time without her having a say.
WIBU to get this job done. My motive was to eliminate night after night after night of my mother getting me to make magic out of the Internet.