Cufflinks!

The man's got some swanky new shirts tailored. He sent me out with instructions to get him a couple of fun cufflinks. "Not those from your shite designer labels, and not those fancy corporate ones. FUN, okay? It doesn't have to cost a bomb as I'd probably lose them. But it has to be fun. A bad-ass theme preferably."

So I trotted off to a mall where the men's section stocks all sorts of cufflinks. Fancy, dowdy, diamond-y, silver, gold-plated, fun, plastic, steel...everything! I stared at a few shelves with wares on display. I took a couple of photos according to the theme that the man had set, and sent it over to him for his selection. He made his decisions pretty quickly. He picked lots of stuff that I knew he'd identify with and would have no issues with literally wearing his heart on his sleeve. But he rejected the teddy bears. Bleah.

Shopping on a weekday is almost pleasurable. The aisles are empty, and the sales people seem that bit friendlier. No queue at the cashiers' and I didn't feel too harassed. 15 minutes later, with my mission accomplished, I was out of the mall and on my merry way to lunch. Nice.