In these harsh times, and my female desire to continually purchase something for my own sense of self in the world, this was a particularly good purchase to make. Yes I bought Nothing. Nothing is a recent campaign by thegreenthing to highlight the fact that surplus consumption results in surplus production, and therefore results in a society of wasteful beings - we should "Stick with what we've got and be Happy". Playing along, I clicked on the amazon mock page and made my purchase, to be shortly followed by two amusing and well written emails:
Dear jodmd, Your Nothing is now being hand-crafted by a dedicated team of Nobodies in our factory in Nada-nadaland. ITEM DETAILS: - 1 x Nothing - Cost: £0.00 - Delivery estimate: 08 November 2010 (Monday) - Dispatch estimate: 04 November 2010 (Thursday) - Sold by: Nothing Ventures, Nothing Gains Ltd. Thank you for shopping with us.
Dear jodmd, I regret to inform you there has been a problem with your order (Reference: TH1NA1R-N4DA). A disgruntled former employee of Nothing Ventures, Nothing Gains Ltd snuck into our Nada-nadaland factory last week and tampered with the seals on all our Nothings. We take non-product safety extremely seriously, and so have issued a worldwide product recall of Nothing effective immediately. We're afraid nobody will be getting Nothing for the immediate future. Please bear with us at this difficult time - we will send Nothing to you as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding. Yours sincerely, Jack Schitt Junior Deputy Vice-manager-in-chief, Non-Product Safety Division, Nothing Ventures, Nothing Gains Ltd
This was then followed up by my delivery of nothing ensuring me that "Nothing's gonna change your world". I was relieved.
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