Buy Now!!! Only for Today!! Hurry!

Last night when I was enjoying my daily dose of weepy soaps and laughable reality shows alongwith crispy homemade aloo ke parathe slathered with butter, I heard my phone tinkle with the arrival of an SMS. Thinking it must be one of the sales managers updating me with their day's sales on my personal number, I ignored it, knowing it could wait till I got the buttery goop off my fingers. After a couple of minutes, the phone buzzed angrily again, reminding me of my duty to check the SMS.
I discovered it was a message from Book Palace, a quaint little bookstore which I had stumbled upon while searching for a hardware store.
'Great discounts, amazing offers, many deals- on your favourite authors! Rush now! Hurry- valid till stocks last. Make the most of it TODAY!' screamed the message in all it's urgency. Today? Now? At 9:16 pm? The store itself shut at 9pm! They wanted me to visit a shut store possibly, to plunder it? Well however great my love for books, I was surely never going to stoop to such a low level! Me- steal? Never!
Obviously their SMS scheduler had run into timing problems. Or maybe they had a large database and my name, comprising of two last names had made it to the very last of their lists. 
Whatever the case was, I was certainly miffed, especially since I had to cut short my delicious dinner.
When I visited the store next, I pointed this out to the cashier, a buck toothed geeky oily fellow who looked like a character from one of the books themselves.
What can we do, madam? These cellphone operators!- and with that, he cleanly shrugged off all responsibility towards the offending message.
As for me, I now keep my phone on silent during important meal times. That way, I am tempted to HURRY! LAST DAY! TODAY! only in the land of dreams- as I check my phone last thing before dropping off to sleep!

Catch me if you can!

'Ok so we'll catch up soon,' finished my husband, as he deftly manouevered a piece of watermelon at the breakfast table in one hand, cellphone in the other.
Being unemployed and feeling quite anti-social at the moment (I'm just so content to lie in late and have the whole day to myself, instead of living it by hour long fragments of various meetings!) I have always found this 'catching up' business not quite to my taste.
Bordering on the edge between an extrovert and an introvert, I have my phases where I will slink away from all public glare, not talk to unnecessary people and maybe even avoid their calls.
Maybe it's just me, or all people suffer from this cloak of invisibility at times. And then I do all I can in my power to remain as far away from people as I possibly can.
So when well-meaning friends ask me to 'lets meet for coffee', I fob them off until i feel I'm ready to emerge from my cocoon. So far it's worked, but with everyone's busy schedule and hundreds of commitments, I doubt how long people will tolerate my sudden absences!