These past few weeks have seen me babble on about how much I love the conveniences of the modern world, but today I have a modern- day moral I'd like to share.
Mother's Day is fast approaching. I'm sure that several readers who forgot the day was approaching and haven't bought anything for their mothers are getting panicky. I was also in this position until about three hours ago. My predicament was solved by my two favourite things: I heard Mother's Day was on May 8 while watching cable TV, then I went onto the internet and ordered my mother a gift. Technology is a wonderful thing.
Where's the moral of the story? When I ordered the gift for my mother, I was forced to use express shipping, which bumped the price up by about a third. I'm not going to say the exact figure as my mother reads every word of this column, so suffice to say it was more than I planned to spend. So there's your moral: if you forget important dates, you end up paying the price (very literally in my case).
But money isn't the problem, mainly because my dad and I are both pitching in for this gift (I think he also got a fright when he realised how close Mother's Day was). However, what bothers me is that I actually had to spend that extra bit of dough to get my mum what she wanted. Not to say that I'm cheap when it comes to my mum, but if I hadn't been such an idiot I'd have that cash lining my back pocket.
We all know that money doesn't mean anything when it comes to family, but my wallet doesn't know it.
Still, I have the comfort of knowing that my mum will absolutely love what I got her, and that's more than enough to justify my spending.
