retail depression...

do you know how it feels to want something reeeeaally badly but then have your hopes dashed in the end?
yeah, retail depression is something like that.
in my case, though, it started with retail casualty....

two days ago, i went to 1Utama with my mom and aunt. full day shopping and yet i bought N.O.T.H.I.N.G. yes, amazing as that may sound coming from me, i didn't buy anything. at all.
it was fun offering my opinion and 2 cents on the choices my aunt and mom made though. (which means more stuff for me to 'borrow' ;p) and mom bought quite a few tops so...yay! ^_^
we went full day and didn't finish 1Utama but yeah, like that lor. at the end of the day, even i put up the white flag.
what?? very demoralizing, you know, go shopping whole day but hands still empty.. :(
then toward the end of the day, my mom said, "If you can find that jacket you wanted the other day, might as well get it now..." i perked up. "Really?" then yes, it became my goal (if not obsession) to find that jacket. went through so many, my mom even offered to buy me an Elle one but...haih.. i just really wanted that particular jacket la. it has this street graphics design thingy on it and the zipper's off center...i like it even better than the jackets at Plastic, ok..and i liked those quite a bit. (though, come to think of it, not this obsessive la.)
so yeah, this is where 'retail casualty' ends....me going home with busted feet and no shopping done. bleh.

retail depression happened today lor. mom was being really nice bout the jacket thing.
she offered to drop by Subang Parade where i first saw the jacket and get it if-i-can-find-it. Haha...so there's the catch. seems simple enough? guess what...i didn't get it.
there was so much suspense some more!
first, we rush rush there after picking my mom from work. then when we rush rush to the store, there's this little note pasted there,
'We are closed for stocktaking.
We will re-open at 6pm.'
actually, once i saw that the store was closed my initial thoughts were 'oh no! why today?!?' but then i said to my mom, considerably casually, "It's closed la...why today??" but then there was also this slight relief la cause i had this awful feeling that it might not be there also. But then we saw the 're-open at 6' bit so we stay lor. hang around abit, look at other clothes....
the shop re-opened much slightly sooner than they said they would. i searched and searched, even looking through kiddy clothes and men's wear (minus the underwear la...! obviously they can't hide a jacket among those -_-") it was gone!
haih..so then i was gracious and walked away.
no la, actually, i said, "Someone sapu my jacket edi. I hope it doesn't fit...bleh...."
hehe...so, if you're the one who bought the jacket and it doesn't fit..well, don't just curse curse me la. cause, well, why'd you buy it in the first place then????

oh, and i wish i had a picture of the jacket to put up. but then again, maybe not..then i'd have harrassed every staff in that shop in my mad search for THE jacket. lol.