Oh, boy… This cartoon hits too close to home for me.
There’s this site called “Amazon” where I order things all the time — just like Buni does in this cartoon. (For all I know, Buni could be using this “Amazon” site, too!)
The worst thing is finally breaking down and ordering something despite ALL the MANY reasons you know you shouldn’t, and as soon as you get that confirmation email in your inbox… you remember the actual thing you meant to order when you logged on in the first place, but didn’t yet buy. So then you place the order and hope they can combine them… because you feel bad making them send you TWO great big almost completely empty boxes, one with a ballpoint pen in it, or some other triviality, and the other with… like… a spatula or something.
I’ve actually gotten packages from them that were literally about a thousand times the size they needed to be. (Literally. Like, it was a micro-SD card in a box big enough to hold a CINDER-BLOCK…) I wondered then as I do now if it wasn’t a subtle bit of attempted psychological manipulation, intended to try to guilt me into buying more things next time, so the giant, almost comically oversized box won’t be so almost completely and entirely empty.
Say-ay-ay… has anyone thought of offering empty boxes on Amazon? Just like… ‘now you, too,’ can get a deluge of boxes full of air and packing materials with Amazon’s logo on the side. Impress your neighbors! Excite your friends… what EVER could you have ordered during your most recent online shopping spree? What gifts could you have bought them? Are you restoring an antique car? Constructing a life-sized kit aircraft to fly?
What’s in all the various, large and cumbersome, oddly-shaped boxes?!?
Next up, Buni discovers decluttering
Oh, boy… This cartoon hits too close to home for me.
There’s this site called “Amazon” where I order things all the time — just like Buni does in this cartoon. (For all I know, Buni could be using this “Amazon” site, too!)
The worst thing is finally breaking down and ordering something despite ALL the MANY reasons you know you shouldn’t, and as soon as you get that confirmation email in your inbox… you remember the actual thing you meant to order when you logged on in the first place, but didn’t yet buy. So then you place the order and hope they can combine them… because you feel bad making them send you TWO great big almost completely empty boxes, one with a ballpoint pen in it, or some other triviality, and the other with… like… a spatula or something.
I’ve actually gotten packages from them that were literally about a thousand times the size they needed to be. (Literally. Like, it was a micro-SD card in a box big enough to hold a CINDER-BLOCK…) I wondered then as I do now if it wasn’t a subtle bit of attempted psychological manipulation, intended to try to guilt me into buying more things next time, so the giant, almost comically oversized box won’t be so almost completely and entirely empty.
Say-ay-ay… has anyone thought of offering empty boxes on Amazon? Just like… ‘now you, too,’ can get a deluge of boxes full of air and packing materials with Amazon’s logo on the side. Impress your neighbors! Excite your friends… what EVER could you have ordered during your most recent online shopping spree? What gifts could you have bought them? Are you restoring an antique car? Constructing a life-sized kit aircraft to fly?
What’s in all the various, large and cumbersome, oddly-shaped boxes?!?
NOTHING. Muahahahahahhah!