Cooking with gas
We go to buy a cooker on Saturday.

This is the way shopping should be.

We know what we want (a cooker) we know which model we want, and much it costs, and where we want to buy it from.

We drive in to town, park the car and go forth to the cooker vendor. We check we still like the cooker and say to the shop assistant "We want to buy this cooker".

She types it in to her computer, and it appears, priced £80 more than we want to pay for it. Disaster looms on the horizon – we can't afford to pay that much.

She speaks to her colleague, we look pitiful, and her colleague agrees to sell it at the advertised price, despite there being no legal obligation on them to do so.

Disaster is averted.

As we stand there, arranging delivery, another worker changes the price on the cooker we'd just purchased. We are the last people to buy it at the cheaper price.

The funny thing is that we both feel like we’ve just saved £80. Obviously this is madness, as we simply wouldn't have bought the cooker if we had arrived ten minutes later and it had only been available at the higher price, yet we both somehow feel like we've saved money.

To celebrate we go and look at tiles.

- posted by Paul @ 1:55 pm