Those lists, 5 best vibrators or 10 best trainers etc. get on my nerves. We don’t really read them or take them into account, most of us just skim them. How many of us really take them on board?
- They are usually about stuff that you wouldn’t normally buy, but they make you feel inadequate because you didn’t know anything about their subject, or the fact that they were the latest fashion item or whatever.
- That before you clicked on them you really didn’t care either way, but they had a sexy picture or headline and you realise that you’ve been caught. Then you still feel that you have to click through them all to make sure that haven’t missed something that you really don’t want!
- That there is always a danger that you might buy something because of the item and when they arrive at home your partner laughs at you for falling for the sales spiel.
- That they’ve just wasted half an hour of your precious time when you should have been doing something else, like working or getting ready to go out and you missed your train or bus or whatever.
- That you’ve just become an expert in the latest trend of a subject that no-one else really cares about or wants to learn from you.
Aaargh, rip your hair out here and now and take it out on me for giving you another meaningless read.
