April 19, 2008

I have just encountered a website selling Wrought Iron products. Yawn? Not really, because these guys have brought an innovative approach that is very interesting.

But before I get to that, let me tell you my own experience with curtain rods. I live in a rental house and we had a curtain that just wasn’t running along properly. It was very annoying to try and open! One day was giving it a yank to try and open it and the whole lot came crashing down!

I took a look at the ceiling where it was installed and saw that the curtain system had been replaced THREE times. That is, the ceiling couldn’t support the dodgy curtains. The Property Manager has yet to get it around his head that it’s hardly our fault if the ceiling obviously cannot support it.

Wrought Iron Haven sells stuff that no doubt is much sturdier.

They have a beautifully designed website filled with products that would no doubt enhance the visual aesthetic of a house and give it a ‘rustic’ feel.

And the innovation that I loved so much?

If you scroll down the home page, there’s a headline that says ‘Our Store now has over 1,300 home & garden items for you to choose from!’

If you click on the comma in the 1,300, it’s a link to a ’secret garden gate’! Almost like an egg in a computer game. On this hidden page you are able to find a great discount! I won’t tell you what it is so you have to go visit it yourself.

Last night I went to a sporting match. The game doesn’t matter. The sport doesn’t matter. What I want to talk about is strangers.

At half time, I got out of my seat and headed towards the toilet. As I was passing a set of strangers who had just gotten cookies out to eat, they said to me “hey, do you want a cookie! We brought too many for us to eat.” and I just laughed and said “I’ll get one on the way back.”

On the way back, the husband saw me just before I arrived and said to his wife “great, he’s back, get the cookies out!”

I then took one, had a small conversation and kept on walking, proudly brandishing my big cookie (which was a type that was obviously not home-made.)

When I sat down though, the trials started.

I was happy as Larry and said “hey check this out, free cookie!”

My friends were looking at me, horrified. “That could have been laced!” And I was like, yeh, but it probably wasn’t.  They just gave me this, omg he’s crazy face and went back to their conversation.

I was sitting here thinking, here we lament the breaking down of kindness between strangers but when it occurs we just reject it on the tiny, tiny chance that they could be psychopaths.

In the mean-time, I had had my most memorable moment of the night.