I’ve got news about my parcel. Unfortunately it’s bad news. Yesterday Greg (who is the chap that is very kindly sending me this gift) got an email from the online store he bought it from.
Parts of the following message have been censored in concordance with the official secrets act.
—–Original Message—–
From mark@[censored].co.uk>
To: [censored]
Sent: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 4:39 am
Subject: Problem with your [censored] OrderHi
Firstly, I would like to sincerely apologise, as we have an issue with your order.
Due to a hefty malfunction in our back office system (during the Xmas rush – that’s timing for you, eh!?) our listing software pumped a lot of products online which were not available for us to ship. Unfortunately [censored] were one of the products affected.
The only [censored] we have available to ship are Pink, but your order was for (or contained) another choice of colour than pink. Obviously, we don’t expect you to just accept a pink [censored], so a full refund is on offer with no quibbles. However if you wish for us to send a pink [censored], then that’s also not a problem. Please let us know your preference as soon as humanly possible so we can sort out this colossal mess ASAP. As many of these are undoubtedly Xmas gifts, we obviously would like you to have the opportunity to find another within the next week or so.
Again, I apologise for this situation. I’m truly sorry that we’ve let you down with your order.
Kind Regards
Mark
While it’s tempting to accept a pink one, I worry that it will emasculate me in many people’s eyes. What do you think I should do? Hold out for the green one like originally promised or sacrifice my masculinity and get a pink one?
Why is life so hard?
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on Dec 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Get a pink one. It’ll go with your handbag.
Pint on Wednesday mate?
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on Dec 13th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
It goes with your eyes.
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on Dec 13th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
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on Dec 13th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Arjan – Thank you for sticking up for my masculitiy when all of these other buggers want to see me humiliated.
The rest of you – Pah!
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on Dec 13th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
For me t’would depend on the shade of pink. If it’s pastel and contains glittery bits then I would opt out. However, should the aforesaid article be like deep fuschia pink, that if held at a certain angle could to an untrained eye seem to be reddish then I would have to consider how much time the aforesaid article would be in public view.
Glad to be of assistance – is it a Barbie GI Jane set that comes in pink or green camouflage?
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on Dec 14th, 2008 at 2:58 am
On the other hand, you could carry this:
http://blog.riflegear.com/archive/2007/12/26/hello-kitty-ar-15—evil-black-rifle-meets-cute-and.aspx
and send off lots of mixed signals.
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