Impulse Purchases

🙋‍♂️“Did you hear a scream?!”

🙋‍♀️ “Yes I was the one who screamed! A mouse just ran across the room from that cabinet! a-a-A mouse!!!”

🙋‍♂️”What? where?”

(Jumps up on the table. )

🙋‍♀️ “Well aren’t you a brave one.”🙄

🙋‍♂️ “What are you talking about… I’m just…well - -I’m just getting a better view to find the darn thing!”

(Looks seriously and peers downwards with his hand above his eye, not at all nervous …🤨)

🙋‍♂️ “You know, I have been thinking it might be time to move. Now seems as good a time as any…”

🤦🏻‍♀️ “You want to pack up and move our entire lives because a rodent took up residence in our kitchen?!”

🙋‍♂️ “Where there is one…. There are many… just listen.. 😳listen…🤨I can hear them chewing away at the skirting boards making little holes to build their new homes…..”🤨🤨🤨

🤦🏻‍♀️ “Mice don’t build, they scurry- and poop.”

🙋‍♂️ “Oh no no no no! They take over entire homes like little furry gangs- they keep all our food stuff hostage and chew through our clothes! Nope!!”

(Throws hands about frantically)

“It’s time to move! We won’t even need to pack. We can just buy new things.”

(Looks down at his feet.)

“We may need to take this table though…..“🧐

🙋‍♀️ “You are being ridiculous!🙄

We will find out where the mouse went and catch it.”

🙋‍♂️ “Catch it?!? Catch it??!!! 😳 With what? I don’t need a pet mouse! Catch it!!?? 😤Blimey!”

🙋‍♀️ “Are you going to come down from there and help me?”

🙋‍♂️ “No.”

🙋‍♀️ “Please.”

🙋‍♂️ “No.”

🙋‍♀️ “Ok. You stay there. On the table.

You keep watch. I’m going to the pet store.”

🙋‍♂️ “Ok….wait-

(head double take)

you are leaving me here -with IT?!?”😳

🙋‍♀️(laughs)

🙋‍♂️ “Wait what? The pet store? What in heavens name for?”

🙋‍♀️ “You’ll see.”😏

{An hour later. }

🙋‍♂️ “What took you so long?”

🙋‍♀️ “I see you are still on the table.”😏

“Don’t worry, it’s all sorted now, you will see.”

🙋‍♂️ “What do you have in that crate?! Ohhhh no no. That crate is wayyy too big to catch a mouse with!”

🙋‍♀️ “No no. It’s not for catching the mouse. 🤪 This is!” (Opens the crate)

🙋‍♂️(Out walks the biggest damn mouse I ever did see. Noooo wait. Looking again. That’s no mouse. . . . 😒😳)

🙋‍♀️(Teasing) “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No wait! It’s the cat signal!”

<Read really fast >

(Wooooshhh! Straight across the room and under the table, this warrior looking creature zoomed along the floorboards and expertly caught the mouse nonchalantly strolling about their humble abode.) >

🙋‍♀️ “Hah! 😀Success. Now what shall we call him?”

🙋‍♂️ “You got a cat to catch the mouse?”

🙋‍♀️ “Yep.”

🙋‍♂️ “Now what will catch the cat? !! “😳

🙋‍♀️(Eye roll. 😏)

🙋‍♀️ “I think we call him warrior cat.”

🙋‍♂️ “That’s a mouthful.”😒

🙋‍♀️ “Ok, super cat?”

(Wooosh! )

🙋‍♀️ “hah.. Apparently we have more than one mouse… …… Should I get another cat?”

🙋‍♂️ “No!”

By VJHD

Story behind why I wrote this piece- Impulse Purchases by VJHD

Have you ever considered how much we buy for the sake of impulse?

How much money and resources we spend in order to repair a situation or fill a hole we have.

Impulsively we buy what makes us feel happy or safe or emotionally complete.

I was kind of thinking of that story we hear as children, the woman swallows a bunch of animals to catch the fly! She literally gorged on Impulse spending until she explodes. 😲

It’s a bit of a funny story for us as kids, but do we ever teach our kids the moral of the story? Or the moral I think it should be?

All the items on the shelves by the counters, at the end of the aisles, in our inboxes and popping up in the corner of our screens, all of the fabulously worded videos on social media tempting us to spend money and even the ‘free items -just pay postage’ gimmick?! Do we really need so much stuff?

Now, obviously this piece was not about buying all of that stuff, it was just a silly simple dialogue piece for a ‘@societysecretlypuuurrfectpoets’ writing prompt and then re-submitted today to the vocal challenge, but this woman did go to the pet store and buy a cat just to catch a mouse! This man made a good point, what will we buy to catch the cat? Or better question, how much do you need to buy to maintain the cat, feed it, care for it, spend time with it?

If we slow down and take more time before we make impulsive decisions, they wouldn’t be impulsive decisions anymore, they would be informed ones. Frankly, I think we could talk ourselves out of a lot of our purchases.