A good friend of mine blogs about word meaning and use (see “Word Nymph“). I thought of her the other day when I realized how my definition for the phrase “window shopping” has changed over the years.
Growing up in rural Kentucky, we had to drive a minimum of 30 minutes to get to a mall. When you make that kind of time commitment, you usually buy something...so our window shopping took place in a catalog before we left.
After I moved away to college, shops and malls were much closer. I didn’t have a car then, but I could hitch a ride with a friend easily enough and window shop to my heart’s content. And I really did window shop back then, because goodness knows I didn’t have any money.
Then I moved to the Midwest and got jobs and cars and drove myself everywhere. I probably intended to window shop, but instead ended up buying lots of things I didn’t need.
When I moved to the Northeast, things changed even more. I sold my car. Walk pretty much everywhere. On every corner, there are stores for major brands and boutiques and shops. And where do I do most of my window shopping today?
Online.
It’s just so easy. I can visit any store in seconds, click around on the merchandise — select hundreds of dollars worth, if I feel like it — put it in the shopping cart, and then close out the window, buying absolutely nothing.
I get all the fun of shopping without spending any real money…
…well, that trip.
Speech, speech
It’s awards season. And guess who won??
ME!
That’s right. The Sticky Egg has won its second Versatile Blogger Award, courtesy of fellow blogger — and no doubt awesome human being — Hyperactive Inefficiency.
Thanks so much!
When I received my first nod last year from The Word Nymph, I didn’t pay it forward as is every winner’s prerogative.
Not this year.
Therefore, I hereby bestow The Versatile Blogger Award on the following blogs that I have recently discovered and find interesting and fresh:
Congratulations!
And, in keeping with another awards rule, here are a few things about me that you might not know:
I’m also supposed to write a blog post about at least one of these facts in the near future, so stay tuned.
And thanks, as always, for reading The Egg!
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