Last-Minute Shoppers
Dec 15th, 2017 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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“Wrapping paper! Ha, ha!”
Shoppers passed by clutching rolls of it.
“Fancy spending Christmas Eve wrapping presents!” Ian thought, reflecting on how he’d finished his yesterday.
“My God, they’re fighting over chocolates,” he sneered, observing a couple of housewives tugging the ends of a Milk Tray box in Howell’s Department Store.
He resolved to have a latte in Starbucks to fully savour the spectacle before the shops finally closed.
“Chocolates?!…Christ, I forgot the wife’s chocolates!”
Ian rushed out of the café.
“Where the hell can I find some now?” he thought, seeing the doors of Howell’s snap shut.
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