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So Busy

It's a feature of our time that people feel the need, constantly, to tell you how busy they are.

Ask someone you haven't seen for a few weeks 'How's tricks?', and they start babbling about how they've been 'sooooo busy with work, the new house, extreme pilates, bla bla.'

This is not cool - ask The Fonz; or the Aristocracy. Until recently, Toffs would rather be caught cottaging in the toilets at Burger King than running around town tapping into a Blackberry, but today, even Aristos are running around being industrious.

It's time to stop this charade of being busier than thou, and very firmly Get Someone Else To Do It. A Gentleman's Gentleman is rather an expensive option, and servants just leak your debauched life to the tabloids, so the solution has to be Errands Etc, whose mission is to do all the stuff you can't be bothered to do.

So, no more queueing for theatre tickets, visas, or post offices, no more grocery shopping, no more popping out for condoms, and definitely no more visits to Ikea.

The great Homer Simpson once summed it up with his catchphrase: "Why can't somebody else do it?"

ErrandsEtc.co.uk

by SOC
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