- Thank you Dave Wolfe
(Extra help in the pictures, as always)
I saw an article today and it made me smile.
Gamestation have done a little test to see who reads the small print that we all have to tick and say we have read it, honestly we have. The answer to the question is not many people at all. In one day 7,500 people agreed to sell Gamestation their immortal souls.
Here is what they agreed to -
“By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamestation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions.”
GameStation suggested that they might serve such notice in “six foot-high letters of fire” too, but also offered customers an option to opt out, rewarding them with a £5 money-off voucher if they did so.
I never read the small print, so my soul would be theirs.
I am useless with details and merrily plow on ahead assuming all will work out fine.Details bore me. I like broad brush strokes, bold statements and themes that resonate and repeat.
The unfortunate thing is that Tops are horribly attentive when it comes to details and other brats besides myself can be terribly lackadaisical.
I will give you some examples.
Bedtime – a brat’s view is “What’s a couple of hours between friends?”
A Top’s view is (and I wish I wasn’t quoting) “You better get your little buns into bed this minute before you are in serious trouble.”
Language – a brat’s view is that she should say what she feels and how she feels and use all the words in her arsenal to express herself.
A Top’s view is that about a million of the best words are out-of-bounds and that it really, really matters that a girl doesn’t use even one of the fun ones.
Bottoms that have been spanked are another example of this different view. (See above for an illustration.) A brat’s view of a spanked bum is “I think you broke it.”
A Top’s view of just the same bottom would be, “It is just a little pink. We haven’t even started yet.”
Time and time again a Top will focus lots and lots of detail and not enough on overwhelming sympathy and emotion.A Top should often be found clasping his hands to his face, falling to his knees and crying, “What have I done?”
But no, he just makes a little comment and puts her wrong side up again and goes about his evil business with his eye for detail focussed totally on her poor innocent behind.
