How Amazon screwed my Birthday Weekend and other joyful observations :o)

Hello!!! It's my birthday weekend. That's right. I am having a whole weekend of celebration. Which means that I might not be about on steemit as much.

Don't worry! It takes more than old age to drive this Scotsman to Steemicide! I will be back in a couple of days.

But I will still try and pop on even if wildly drunk and upvote all my buds and even others from the new tab I have never read before.

Back in the day, I used to celebrate for a week. Oh, the debauchery! My presents were usually guitar or music oriented and mostly funded by me with the rest cobbled together from my family. I really did like to go to town.

Now, being a dad my birthdays are little affairs. Like shy woodland creatures poking their snouts out of the burrow at the first hint of spring. No longer can I go on the lash for a week. Instead, now I have some cake and wistfully look at the sky. Well all right then. I still drink a bit. How can anyone give up banana bread beer?!?!

This year I was to get a guitar pedal from Amazon. The utterly amazing Trio Looper Plus. It's an expensive little bastard clocking in at £185 British pounds. (That's a lot of steem)

Fortunately, I had a plan. I had asked for Amazon vouchers for my Christmas from all and sundry and also asked for these for my birthday much to the consternation of my older relatives who seem to think they are buying me shares in a large river.

So the plan was laid. I visited all my relatives and family. Collecting my little amazon vouchers. I had over a hundred pounds worth, the rest in mortal cash, I had squirrelled away from the eyes of my good lady wife who normally confiscates every last one of my earth pennies.

Yesterday I popped online to buy it.

WHAT THE BLAZES!!!

Amazon how dare you!! Pumping the price up by 65 pounds. I mean what the flump is going on there.

So now here I sit, bereft and pedal-less. I have decided I will drink beer until the price comes back down. It may be some time. I shall mail Amazon and tell them of my beer-in protest.

Has anyone else ever been so dreadfully stiffed by amazon before? Will the price ever come back down? This is worse than watching Crypto currency fluctuate!

In the meantime, forgive me for my whine. Happy weekend to all you steemandos!