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Showing posts with label genuine unplanned generosity is rarer than it should be. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genuine unplanned generosity is rarer than it should be. Show all posts

Saturday, 31 August 2024

Better Quality Stress Relief

Are you looking for that perfect gift for yourself
or the person next to you, who you care for most?
Book a cheap holiday flight for somewhere you know
but have not been to for ages, but don't buy insurance
against the flight being cancelled. 

Then wait for the silly season headlines in the broadsheet press
where the airline blames the international air authorities
of different countries for not supporting the airline's schedules,
which leads to many passengers losing out as flights get cancelled.

Alternatively work out the price that return flights
that your chosen journey would have cost, including stress,
and give the money to a trusted pet rescue charity. That is what I did....
  

Sunday, 18 October 2020

Impulsive Living

Supermarkets are well known
for positioning some goods in their shops
so that when shoppers see them
they will unthinkingly buy them
as an impulse purchase, not reflecting
on how much the impulse came from the shop.

Would that such open impulsiveness
would strike shoppers more often
as they pass the beggars sat at the exits
with their worldly goods around them.

The poor are are always worth more
than present themselves to be.