High-end, tricky Christmas presents
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 9:42 am
I don't know if I've shared this tidbit yet, but I've been adopted by a troika of English speaking little kids at the restaurant next door to my apartment. I have dinner with them every night and they couldn't be cuter or dearer to my heart. So naturally we've been talking Christmas wish-list. Trouble is, the information age has made it much easier to *see* things, and not appreciably easier to *get* them -- at least here.
To wit, one of the kids wants a "glitter backpack," and another wants a diary with a lock and key. :/
I wouldn't have thought these would be tough tickets (because I never do, going into these things), but they've both proven pretty doggone elusive. Have tried City Mall, IBC, PBC, and all of the big markets (e.g. Central) and so far come up with nothing. If anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful. I have a shipping forward through MyUS but it doesn't seem to save a person any money over having a friend in the States drive the thing to FedEx himself, so if mail-order ends up being the only choice, I'm really staring down the barrel.
One more thing: I am really not trying to be a jerk with this disclaimer -- you'll have to take my word for it, hahaha -- but I've been finding it increasingly difficult not to get irked by non-responsive responses. So I'd like to ask that everyone *please* confine him- or herself to the question that was asked, and leave out the uninvited re-frames like, "If you ask me, you're playing with fire by involving yourself with next-door-neighbor kids," etc.
*THANK* *YOU*.
To wit, one of the kids wants a "glitter backpack," and another wants a diary with a lock and key. :/
I wouldn't have thought these would be tough tickets (because I never do, going into these things), but they've both proven pretty doggone elusive. Have tried City Mall, IBC, PBC, and all of the big markets (e.g. Central) and so far come up with nothing. If anyone has any suggestions I'd be grateful. I have a shipping forward through MyUS but it doesn't seem to save a person any money over having a friend in the States drive the thing to FedEx himself, so if mail-order ends up being the only choice, I'm really staring down the barrel.
One more thing: I am really not trying to be a jerk with this disclaimer -- you'll have to take my word for it, hahaha -- but I've been finding it increasingly difficult not to get irked by non-responsive responses. So I'd like to ask that everyone *please* confine him- or herself to the question that was asked, and leave out the uninvited re-frames like, "If you ask me, you're playing with fire by involving yourself with next-door-neighbor kids," etc.
*THANK* *YOU*.